First optical image of the Galactic Centre
eso_eso9013a October 31st, 1990
Credit: ESO
This photo shows the first optical image of the Galactic Centre, the enigmatic region at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It was obtained with the EFOSC II instrument at the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT).
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9013a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso9013a
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- Milky Way Galactic Centre
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 1990-10-31T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9013a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- New Technology Telescope
- Instrument
- EFOSC2
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 4200.0, 1830.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- 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
- eso9013a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9013a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-01-20T11:44:37+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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