HAWK-I image of NGC 4030

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eso_eso1042e October 27th, 2010

Credit: ESO/P. Grosbøl

This spiral galaxy, NGC 4030, lies about 75 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Virgo. In 2007 Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut who doubles as an amateur astronomer, spotted a supernova — a stellar explosion that is briefly almost as bright as its host galaxy — going off in this galaxy. The image was made in infrared light with the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile. HAWK-I is one of the most powerful infrared imagers in the world, and this is one of the sharpest and most detailed pictures of this galaxy ever taken from Earth. The filters used were Y (shown here in blue), J (in green), H (in orange), and K (in red). The field of view of the image is about 6.4 arcminutes across.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1042e/

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
NGC 4030
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
Eso_eso1042e_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 12h 0m 23.7s
DEC = -1° 5’ 59.1”
Orientation
North is 0.2° CW
Field of View
6.5 x 6.5 arcminutes
Constellation
Virgo

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Orange VLT (HAWK-I) Infrared (H) 1.6 µm
Green VLT (HAWK-I) Infrared (J) 1.2 µm
Blue VLT (HAWK-I) Infrared (Y) 1.0 µm
Spectrum_base
Orange
Green
Blue
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ID
eso1042e
Subject Category
C.5.1.1  
Subject Name
NGC 4030
Credits
ESO/P. Grosbøl
Release Date
2010-10-27T12:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1042e/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Approximate distance in light years from ESO.
Facility
Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
Instrument
HAWK-I, HAWK-I, HAWK-I
Color Assignment
Orange, Green, Blue
Band
Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
H, J, Y
Central Wavelength
1630, 1220, 1020
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
180.098717, -1.099757
Reference Dimension
3654.0, 3643.0
Reference Pixel
1825.88350189, 1841.36628543
Scale
-2.957035e-05, 2.957035e-05
Rotation
-0.22481441966
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
eso1042e
Metadata Date
2010-10-18T17:40:06+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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