Wide-field view of the sky around the spiral galaxy NGC 1187
eso_eso1231d August 1st, 2012
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
This wide-field view is centred on the spiral galaxy NGC 1187 in the constellation of Eridanus (The River). It is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). The distorted companion galaxy ESO 480-G020 can be seen to the upper-right of NGC 1187, close to a star. The bright star at the bottom of the picture is Tau3 Eridani.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1231d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1231d
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 1187
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
- Release Date
- 2012-08-01T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1231d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, B+R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 45.649696544, -22.8676003407
- Reference Dimension
- 10582.0, 8291.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5291.0, 4145.0
- Scale
- -0.000283137256812, 0.000283137256812
- Rotation
- 0.52000000000000024
- 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
- eso1231d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1231d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-07-18T12:10:12+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
