NGC 6188
eso_ngc_6188_paranal November 22nd, 2011
Credit: ESO/J. Pérez
Impressive image of the NGC 6188 nebula, located some 4000 light-years away, in the southern constellation of Ara (the Altar). The red colour is due to emission from hydrogen, lit up by massive, recently-formed stars. The emission nebula is embedded in a dark, large molecular cloud.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/ngc_6188_paranal/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- ngc_6188_paranal
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 6188
- Credits
- ESO/J. Pérez
- Release Date
- 2011-11-22T10:49:48
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/ngc_6188_paranal/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 249.862922394, -48.81038041
- Reference Dimension
- 1942.0, 1480.0
- Reference Pixel
- 971.0, 740.0
- Scale
- -0.000660934433218, 0.000660934433218
- Rotation
- -2.9800000000000013
- 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
- ngc_6188_paranal
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/ngc_6188_paranal.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-10-07T13:23:11+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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