The enormous coma of comet Hale-Bopp
eso_eso9933b June 29th, 1999
Credit: ESO
This photo is a "sum" of the three exposures that served as the basis for the colour image. It has been contrast-enhanced to show the truly enormous size of the comet's coma, over 3 arcmin across. The optical reflection from the bright star to the lower left was also enhanced by this process.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9933b/
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
- eso9933b
- Subject Category
- A.2.2.2
- Subject Name
- Comet Hale-Bopp
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 1999-06-29T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9933b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- New Technology Telescope, New Technology Telescope, New Technology Telescope
- Instrument
- EMMI, EMMI, EMMI
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale, Grayscale, Grayscale
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, V
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- 30, 30, 60
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 2034.0, 1913.0
- 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
- eso9933b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9933b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-20T10:52:43+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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