Digitized Sky Survey image around Apep

eso_eso1838c November 19th, 2018

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

The image is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2), and shows the region surrounding 2XMM J160050.7-514245, nicknamed “Apep”. The field of view is approximately 2.4 x 2.0 degrees.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1838c/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Subject - Milky Way: Star

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 16h 0m 55.9s; DEC = -51° 42’ 56.1”
Orientation: North is 0.4° CW
Field of View: 3.7 x 2.9 degrees
Constellation: Norma

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (None)	Optical (I)	825.0 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	649.0 nm

ID: eso1838c
Subject Category: B.3
Subject Name
Credits: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2018-11-19T17:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1838c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Orange, Cyan

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R
Central Wavelength: 825, 649

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 240.232708923, -51.715596635
Reference Dimension: 13248.0, 10283.0

Reference Pixel: 6624.0, 5141.5
Scale: -0.00028029864192, 0.00028029864192
Rotation: -0.4
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: None

Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID: eso
Resource ID: eso1838c

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1838c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2018-11-15T14:40:24+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.