Wide-field view of the surroundings of NGC 5018
eso_eso1827c August 8th, 2018
Credit: ESO/Spavone et al.
This wider-area image around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5018 offers a different perspective on the cosmic vastness. If seen with the unaided eye it will look almost empty. Here the extremely sensitive detectors of the VST have captured a myriad of stars, galaxies, and even a few errant asteroids crossing this area of the sky during the long exposures need to obtain the image.
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1827c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1827c
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.4
- Subject Name
- NGC 5018
- Credits
- ESO/Spavone et al.
- Release Date
- 2018-08-08T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1827c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope
- Instrument
- OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- u, g, R
- Central Wavelength
- 361, 470, 655
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 198.240081383, -19.4713523832
- Reference Dimension
- 20117.0, 19013.0
- Reference Pixel
- 10058.5, 9506.5
- Scale
- -5.83546110994e-05, 5.83546110994e-05
- Rotation
- 0.12000000000000001
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 5.02925 5.02957 0.00029349860134714363
- 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
- eso1827c
- Resource URL
- http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1827c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-03-14T09:07:17+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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