The brown dwarf KELU-1

Eso_eso9709a_1024

eso_eso9709a April 28th, 1997

Credit: ESO

This photo shows a small sky area around the newly discovered Brown Dwarf object KELU-1 in the southern constellation of Hydra (The Water-Snake). It is indicated with tick marks.Observations described in ESO Press Release eso9709 (28 April 1997) have shown that this object is located at a distance of only about 10 parsec from the Sun. Moreover, it is single and is therefore not disturbed by any other objects in its neighbourhood.This image was obtained on March 15, 1997, through a near-infrared `gunn-i' filter with the EFOSC1 multimode instrument at the ESO 3.6-m telescope at La Silla. The exposure lasted 40 seconds and was made during good sky conditions. The field measures approx. 5 x 5 arcmin; North is up and East is left.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9709a/

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
KELU-1
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Type > Brown Dwarf
Star > Grouping > Binary

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale ESO-3.6m (EFOSC) Infrared (Near-IR) -
Eso_eso9709a_1280
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ID
eso9709a
Subject Category
B.3.2.3   B.3.6.1  
Subject Name
KELU-1
Credits
ESO
Release Date
1997-04-28T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9709a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
ESO 3.6-metre telescope
Instrument
EFOSC
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
Near-IR
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
2505.0, 3000.0
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
eso9709a
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9709a.tif
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Metadata Date
2023-10-11T09:27:18.518120
Metadata Version
1.1
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