First infrared ESO image of comet Hale-Bopp

Eso_eso9520a_1024

eso_eso9520a August 25th, 1995

Credit: ESO

This false-colour image of the newly discovered comet Hale-Bopp was obtained by Chris Lidman and Patrice Bouchet on August 5, 1995, UT 03:30, with the MPI/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla observatory. It was registered with the infrared-sensitive instrument IRAC2 on a 256x256 pixel Nicmos3 detector and through a J-band filtre (wavelength centered at 1.5 micron) during an 8-minute exposure. The scale is 0.52 arcsec/pixel and the field of the image covers 2.2 x 2.2 arcminutes. The atmospheric seeing was 0.8 arcsecond. North is up and east is to the left.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9520a/

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 Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Comet Hale-Bopp
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Comet

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red MPG-2.2m (IRAC2) Infrared (J) 1.5 µm
Spectrum_base
Red
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ID
eso9520a
Subject Category
A.2.2  
Subject Name
Comet Hale-Bopp
Credits
ESO
Release Date
1995-08-25T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9520a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
Instrument
IRAC2
Color Assignment
Red
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
J
Central Wavelength
1500
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
5449.0, 5455.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
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
eso9520a
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9520a.tif
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Metadata Date
2017-07-08T02:43:08+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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