The Orion Nebula and cluster from the VLT Survey Telescope
eso_eso1723a July 27th, 2017
Credit: ESO/G. Beccari
OmegaCAM — the wide-field optical camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) — has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars in great detail, producing this beautiful new image. This famous object, the birthplace of many massive stars, is one of the closest stellar nurseries, at a distance of about 1350 light-years.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1723a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1723a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- Orion Nebula
- Credits
- ESO/G. Beccari
- Release Date
- 2017-07-27T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1723a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope
- Instrument
- OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM, OmegaCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- i, H-alpha, r, G
- Central Wavelength
- 770, 659, 625, 480
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.7844027714, -5.47870026672
- Reference Dimension
- 16877.0, 13107.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8438.5, 6553.5
- Scale
- -5.92063931127e-05, 5.92063931127e-05
- Rotation
- 0.17999999999999988
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 4.21957 0.00024982552018635277
- 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
- eso1723a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1723a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-07-21T12:34:08+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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