The globular star cluster Messier 107
eso_eso1048a December 8th, 2010
Credit: ESO/ESO Imaging Survey
The globular cluster Messier 107, also known as NGC 6171, is located about 21 000 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Messier 107 is about 13 arcminutes across, which corresponds to about 80 light-years at its distance. As is typical of globular clusters, a population of thousands of old stars in Messier 107 is densely concentrated into a volume that is only about twenty times the distance between our Sun and its nearest stellar neighbour, Alpha Centauri, across. This image was created from exposures taken through blue, green and near-infrared filters, using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1048a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1048a
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- M 107
- Credits
- ESO/ESO Imaging Survey
- Release Date
- 2010-12-08T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1048a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from ESO.
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 248.132869, -13.053896
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1166.0
- Reference Pixel
- 676.127794781, 556.370108336
- Scale
- -0.00040417024, 0.00040417024
- Rotation
- 90.05103287964
- 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
- eso1048a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1048a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-12-01T15:12:11+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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