Javascript must be enabled to use AstroPix. Learn How!

First visible light from GRB 050709

Eso_eso0533a_1024

eso_eso0533a October 6th, 2005

Credit: ESO

First image in the visible (more precisely here, in the so-called R-band) of a short gamma-ray burst. The image was taken with the Danish 1.5-m telescope and the DFOSC camera at La Silla on 11 July 2005. It shows the gamma-ray burst to be situated on the edge of a low-redshift galaxy.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0533a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

View Options

Fullscreen

View in WorldWide Telescope

Download Options

Full Size Image (2400 x 2396)
Source TIFF (5.79 MB)

Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: GRB 050709
Subject - Distant Universe: Cosmology > Phenomenon > Gamma Ray Burst

Eso_eso0533a_128

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 23h 1m 27.0s; DEC = -38° 58’ 39.9”
Orientation: North is 45.1° CCW
Field of View: 2.0 x 2.0 arcminutes
Constellation: Grus

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	ESO-Danish-1.54m (DFOSC)	Optical (R)	-

Eso_eso0533a_1280

×

ID: eso0533a
Subject Category: D.6.2.2
Subject Name: GRB 050709
Credits: ESO

Release Date: 2005-10-06T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0533a/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Redshift distance from: http://wenku.baidu.com/view/4b424f1dfc4ffe473368ab29.html

Facility: Danish 1.54-metre telescope
Instrument: DFOSC
Color Assignment: Pseudocolor

Band: Optical
Bandpass: R
Central Wavelength

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 345.36257, -38.977755
Reference Dimension: 2400.0, 2396.0

Reference Pixel: 1200.53726583, 1178.2133009
Scale: -1.371753e-05, 1.371753e-05
Rotation: 45.11671257801
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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: eso0533a

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0533a.tif
Related Resources

Metadata Date: 2009-01-20T13:51:56+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

×

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

×

There is no distance meta data in this image.

Providers | Sign In

Nasa_partner

NASA’s Universe of Learning materials are based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The award is part of NASA’s Science Activation program, which strives to further enable NASA science experts and content into the learning environment more effectively and efficiently with learners of all ages.