Comet Halley's ion tails
eso_eso8501a December 17th, 1985
Credit: ESO
Comet Halley's ion tails were photographed with the ESO Schmidt telescope on 9 December 1985. (Original scale of the photograph: 1 degree = 12 cm)
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso8501a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso8501a
- Subject Category
- A.2.2.3
- Subject Name
- Comet Halley
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 1985-12-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso8501a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- 600
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 1653.0, 1134.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Zeutschel Omniscan 11
- 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
- eso8501a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso8501a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-12-10T21:41:15+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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