Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
eso_sl-9-neg-full_0102-cc July 5th, 2011
Credit: ESO
Negative image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), taken with the 1-metre Schmidt telescope, at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, in Chile. In 1992, SL9 was broken into pieces by the gravitational field of Jupiter. The fragments of SL9 then collided with the gas giant planet in 1994.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/sl-9-neg-full_0102-cc/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- sl-9-neg-full_0102-cc
- Subject Category
- A.2.2
- Subject Name
- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2011-07-05T18:56:11
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/sl-9-neg-full_0102-cc/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 4220.0, 3493.0
- 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
- sl-9-neg-full_0102-cc
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/sl-9-neg-full_0102-cc.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-04-29T16:49:14+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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