The Tarantula Nebula region imaged with HAWK-I with the Adaptive Optics Facility
eso_ann18006a January 30th, 2018
Credit: ESO
This image of the dramatic star formation region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, was created from a mosaic of images taken using the HAWK-I instrument working with the Adaptive optics Facility of ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The stars are significantly sharper than the same image without adaptive optics being used, and fainter stars can be seen.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann18006a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- ann18006a
- Subject Category
- C.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- 30 Doradus
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2018-01-30T11:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann18006a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- HAWK-I, HAWK-I, HAWK-I, HAWK-I
- Color Assignment
- Green, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Y, Ks, Ks, Y
- Central Wavelength
- 1021, 2146, 2146, 1021
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 84.6759913272, -69.1021483222
- Reference Dimension
- 4397.0, 4250.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2198.5, 2125.0
- Scale
- -2.96054332343e-05, 2.96054332343e-05
- Rotation
- -0.81999999999999984
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 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
- ann18006a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/ann18006a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-01-19T17:43:45+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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