Spiral galaxy NGC 1097
eso_eso0438d December 22nd, 2004
Credit: ESO
It is an almost-true colour composite based on images made with the multi-mode VIMOS instrument on the 8.2-m Melipal (Unit Telescope 3) of ESO's Very Large Telescope. Exposures were taken in three different wavebands which were associated to a given colour : R-band (centred around 652 nm; red), V (540 nm; green) and B (456 nm; blue). The images were taken on the night of December 9 to 10, 2004 in the presence of the President of the Republic of Chile, M. Ricardo Lagos. The observing conditions were very good (seeing well below 1 arcsec). The total exposure was 2.25 min in R, 3 min in V and 6 min in B. The scale is 0.205 arcsec/pix and the image covers a 7.7 x 6.6 arcmin2 region on the sky. All exposures were taken and pre-processed by ESO Paranal Science Operation astronomers. Additional image processing by Henri Boffin (ESO).
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0438d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0438d
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 1097
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2004-12-22T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0438d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- VIMOS, VIMOS, VIMOS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 652, 540, 456
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 41.579331, -30.274894
- Reference Dimension
- 2296.0, 2592.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1079.42398873, 1341.37165206
- Scale
- -4.973662e-05, 4.973662e-05
- Rotation
- 0.12874043966
- 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
- eso0438d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0438d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-06-20T21:23:21+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
