370-million-pixel starscape of the Lagoon Nebula

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eso_eso0936a September 28th, 2009

Credit: ESO

The third image of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project is an amazing vista of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the 67-million-pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image covers more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels. It is based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R) and one narrow-band filter (H-alpha). #L

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0936a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Lagoon Nebula NGC 6523
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula > Appearance > Emission > H II Region
Nebula > Type > Interstellar Medium
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 18h 3m 37.0s
DEC = -24° 23’ 13.0”
Orientation
North is up
Field of View
1.6 x 1.0 degrees
Constellation
Sagittarius

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical (H-alpha) 658.0 nm
Orange MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical (R) 651.0 nm
Green MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical (V) 539.0 nm
Blue MPG-2.2m (WFI) Optical (B) 456.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Orange
Green
Blue
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ID
eso0936a
Subject Category
B.4.2.1.1   B.4.1.1  
Subject Name
Lagoon Nebula, NGC 6523
Credits
ESO
Release Date
2009-09-28T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0936a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from SEDs.
Facility
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
Instrument
WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI
Color Assignment
Red, Orange, Green, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
H-alpha, R, V, B
Central Wavelength
658, 651, 539, 456
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
270.904114, -24.386937
Reference Dimension
7856.0, 5261.0
Reference Pixel
4147.05352943, 1376.38291846
Scale
-0.00019834692, 0.00019834692
Rotation
0.00447384225
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
eso0936a
Metadata Date
2009-08-07T16:13:02+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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