Halley's multiple dust tail

Eso_eso8605a_1024

eso_eso8605a February 26th, 1986

Credit: ESO

Halley's multiple dust tail. This false-colour wide-field CCD Picture of Comet Halley was obtained with the ESO special camera sensitive to the 500-1100 nm spectral region. The exposure time was 45 seconds. This is the first picture to show clearly multiple tails of Comet Halley. The ion tails point towards the top of the picture and those to the right (north) are dust tails. Note also the structure in the north-east direction, that is towards the sun. (ESO Press Release eso8605; Colour)

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso8605a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Comet Halley
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Comet > Tail > Dust

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  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale Other (None) Optical -
Eso_eso8605a_1280
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ID
eso8605a
Subject Category
A.2.2.3.1  
Subject Name
Comet Halley
Credits
ESO
Release Date
1986-02-26T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso8605a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Other
Instrument
None
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Optical
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
45
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Zeutschel Omniscan 11
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
eso8605a
Metadata Date
2009-12-10T21:44:53+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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