Supernova SN 1987A
eso_eso9944a October 5th, 1999
Credit: ESO
This is a direct image of SN1987A, flanked by two nearby stars. The distance between these two is 4.5 arcsec. This reproduction is from a 2-min exposure through a R(ed) filter with the FORS1 multi-mode instrument at VLT ANTU, obtained in 0.55 arcsec seeing on September 20, 1998. North is up and East is left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9944a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso9944a
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- SN 1987A
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 1999-10-05T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9944a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8653922496, -69.2689199872
- Reference Dimension
- 645.0, 650.0
- Reference Pixel
- 322.0, 325.0
- Scale
- -6.94174539678e-06, 6.94174539678e-06
- Rotation
- 0
- 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
- eso9944a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9944a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-20T11:40:31+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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