WISE First Light

Wise_wise2010-001_1024

wise_WISE2010-001 January 6th, 2010

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) ejected its cover. The "first-light" picture shows thousands of stars and covers an area three times the size of the Moon. WISE will take more than a million similar pictures covering the whole sky. The image was captured as the spacecraft stared in a fixed direction, in order to help calibrate its pointing system. The mission's survey will be done while the satellite continuously scans the sky, and an internal scan mirror counteracts the motion to create freeze-frame images. The team is working now to match the motions of the spacecraft and the scan mirror precisely. This eight-second exposure shows infrared light from three of WISE's four wavelength bands: Blue, green and red correspond to 3.4, 4.6, and 12 microns, respectively.

Provider: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Image Source: /image/wise/WISE2010-001

Curator: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Berkeley, CA, USA

Image Use Policy: Pulic Domain

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
V482 Car
Wise_wise2010-001_128
 

Position Details Position Details

Position (FK5)
RA = 9h 31m 2.1s
DEC = -58° 30’ 58.3”
Orientation
North is 49.2° CW
Field of View
45.8 x 45.8 arcminutes
Constellation
Carina

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue WISE Infrared (Near-IR) 3.4 µm
Green WISE Infrared (Near-IR) 4.6 µm
Red WISE Infrared (Mid-IR) 12.0 µm
Spectrum_ir1
Blue
Green
Red
Wise_wise2010-001_1280
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ID
WISE2010-001
Subject Category
Subject Name
V482 Car
Credits
NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
Release Date
2010-01-06
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
/image/wise/WISE2010-001
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Good
Distance Notes
Facility
WISE, WISE, WISE
Instrument
Color Assignment
Blue, Green, Red
Band
Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
Near-IR, Near-IR, Mid-IR
Central Wavelength
3400, 4600, 12000
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
FK5
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
142.758957251423, -58.5161846862573
Reference Dimension
1000, 1000
Reference Pixel
500.5, 500.5
Scale
-7.62777778000000e-04, 7.62777777999999e-04
Rotation
-49.15241424139
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
URL
http://wise.astro.ucla.edu
Name
Email
outreach@ssl.berkeley.edu
Telephone
Address
7 Gauss Way
City
Berkeley
State/Province
CA
Postal Code
94720
Country
USA
Rights
Pulic Domain
Publisher
Publisher ID
wise
Resource ID
Resource URL
/image/wise/WISE2010-001
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Metadata Date
2018-01-11T02:35:30Z
Metadata Version
1.2
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