VST image of the Hercules galaxy cluster
eso_eso1211a March 7th, 2012
Credit: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute
This new image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) shows a wide variety of interacting galaxies in the young Hercules galaxy cluster. The sharpness of the picture and the sheer number of objects captured — across a full square degree — in less than three hours of observations attest to the great power of the VST and its OmegaCAM camera to explore the nearby Universe. This picture has been cropped and does not cover the full VST field of view.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1211a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1211a
- Subject Category
- C.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell 2151
- Credits
- ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute
- Release Date
- 2012-03-07T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1211a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope
- Instrument
- OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- i, r, g
- Central Wavelength
- 798, 670, 520
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- 3100, 3100, 3100
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 241.312644, 17.748527
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 886.0
- Reference Pixel
- 565.759549509, 395.064768051
- Scale
- -0.00077465531, 0.00077465531
- Rotation
- -89.8450426153
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- 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
- eso1211a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1211a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-02-09T13:36:21+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
