Widefield image of the sky around PDS 70

eso_eso1821b July 2nd, 2018

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

This colourful image shows the sky around the faint orange dwarf star PDS 70 (in the middle of the image). The bright blue star to the right is χ Centauri.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1821b/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: PDS 70
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk > Protoplanetary

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 14h 8m 10.2s; DEC = -41° 23’ 49.6”
Orientation: North is 2.2° CW
Field of View: 1.2 x 1.2 degrees
Constellation: Centaurus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (None)	Optical (i)	797.5 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (r)	660.0 nm

ID: eso1821b
Subject Category: B.3.7.2.1
Subject Name: PDS 70
Credits: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2018-07-02T12:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1821b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Orange, Cyan

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: i, r
Central Wavelength: 797.5, 660

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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 212.042310464, -41.3971022774
Reference Dimension: 4447.0, 4373.0

Reference Pixel: 2223.0, 2186.0
Scale: -0.000279958766374, 0.000279958766374
Rotation: -2.2000000000000011
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: http://www.eso.org
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Email

Telephone
Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
State/Province

Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID: eso
Resource ID: eso1821b

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1821b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2018-06-28T11:09:30+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

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