Split comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3

Eso_eso9608a_1024

eso_eso9608a February 9th, 1996

Credit: ESO

The photo is a composite of two recent exposures obtained by Hermann Boehnhardt (Universitaets-Sternwarte Muenchen - USM, Germany), and Hans Ulrich Kaeufl (ESO-Garching), using the ESO 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory (Chile) in remote observing mode from the ESO Headquarters in Garching (Germany). The observations took place on 31 January 1996, at 01:00 UT. They show that the apparent separations between the split nuclei, originally discovered at ESO on 12 December 1995, cf. ESO Press Release eso9601 and ESO Press Photo eso9601 [GIF,75k] have further increased; they are now approx. 6 and 17 arcsec, respectively. At the distance of the comet at the time of the new observations (2.5 AU = 375 million kilometres), this corresponds to projected distances of 11,000 km and 31,000 km.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9608a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Comet
Interplanetary Body > Comet > Nucleus

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor NTT (None) Optical -
Eso_eso9608a_1280
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ID
eso9608a
Subject Category
A.2.2   A.2.2.1  
Subject Name
Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
Credits
ESO
Release Date
1996-02-09T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9608a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
New Technology Telescope
Instrument
None
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Optical
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
520.0, 627.0
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
eso9608a
Metadata Date
2023-10-11T09:27:19.855871
Metadata Version
1.1
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