An "international" comet Hale-Bopp image

Eso_eso9523a_1024

eso_eso9523a September 5th, 1995

Credit: ESO

This photo is a false-colour reproduction of the central part of a CCD frame that was obtained by visiting astronomers Mats Dahlgren (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, Sweden) and Felix Lahulla (Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Spain), observing with the Dutch 0.90-metre telescope at the ESO La Silla observatory in Chile. The pixel size is 0.44 arcsec and the field measures approx. 1.2 x 1.2 arcmin. North is up and East is to the left. It is a 2-min exposure, taken through a red filtre, just before midnight (UT) between August 31 and September 1, 1995. The astronomers cleaned and flat-fielded the image before it was transmitted to the ESO Headquarters in Garching (Germany) where it was colour-coded for display on the ESO WWW Hale-Bopp Homepage.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9523a/

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 Hale-Bopp
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Comet

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor ESO-Dutch-0.9m (None) Optical (R) -
Eso_eso9523a_1280
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ID
eso9523a
Subject Category
A.2.2  
Subject Name
Comet Hale-Bopp
Credits
ESO
Release Date
1995-09-05T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9523a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Dutch 0.9-metre telescope
Instrument
None
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Optical
Bandpass
R
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
120
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
520.0, 589.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
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
eso9523a
Metadata Date
2023-10-11T09:27:20.410156
Metadata Version
1.1
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