Edge-on galaxy with dust lane
eso_eso9924f April 30th, 1999
Credit: ESO
This is a colour composite (BVR) of a sky field near the border between the southern constellations Carina (The Ship's Keel) and Volans (The Flying Fish). It contains a spiral galaxy, ESO 60-24 that is seen nearly edge-on. This galaxy has a strong equatorial dust band that hides the light from the stars behind it. A bright centre is located just below the dust band and the spiral structure may be perceived in the outer regions. The velocity is 4,000 km/sec, corresponding to a distance of about 200 million light-years. These observations were made with FORS1 at ANTU on March 27, 1999. Field size: 6.8x6.8 arcmin 2 ; North is up and East is to the left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9924f/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- eso9924f
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- ESO 60-24
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 1999-04-30T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9924f/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS1, FORS1, FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 135.664883, -68.226969
- Reference Dimension
- 2038.0, 2039.0
- Reference Pixel
- 965.705813725, 1040.04059751
- Scale
- -5.55892e-05, 5.55892e-05
- Rotation
- -0.06732202200
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- 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
- eso9924f
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9924f.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-07T16:21:10+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
