Digitized Sky Survey image around the HII region LHA 120-N 180B

eso_eso1903c February 6th, 2019

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, and shows the region surrounding LHA 120-N 180B, visible at the centre of the image.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1903c/

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
Object Name: LHA 120-N 180B
Subject - Local Universe: Nebula > Type > Star Formation

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 5h 48m 49.1s; DEC = -70° 3’ 52.8”
Orientation: North is 3.5° CW
Field of View: 3.6 x 3.6 degrees
Constellation: Mensa

Color Mapping

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

ID: eso1903c
Subject Category: C.4.1.2
Subject Name: LHA 120-N 180B
Credits: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2019-02-06T17:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1903c/

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: 87.2047064845, -70.0646764632
Reference Dimension: 12841.0, 12768.0

Reference Pixel: 6420.5, 6384.0
Scale: -0.000279897366963, 0.000279897366963
Rotation: -3.5400000000000014
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: http://www.eso.org
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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: eso1903c

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1903c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2019-01-25T14:46:24+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.