A Cosmic Bat in Flight
eso_eso1904a March 14th, 2019
Credit: ESO
Hidden in one of the darkest corners of the Orion constellation, this Cosmic Bat is spreading its hazy wings through interstellar space two thousand light-years away. It is illuminated by the young stars nestled in its core — despite being shrouded by opaque clouds of dust, their bright rays still illuminate the nebula. Too dim to be discerned by the naked eye, NGC 1788 reveals its soft colours to ESO's Very Large Telescope in this image — the most detailed to date.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1904a/
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
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso1904a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 1788
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2019-03-14T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1904a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS2, FORS2, FORS2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- R, v, b
- Central Wavelength
- 655, 557, 440
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 76.7216591553, -3.35327468809
- Reference Dimension
- 1683.0, 1642.0
- Reference Pixel
- 841.0, 821.0
- Scale
- -7.00039015746e-05, 7.00039015746e-05
- Rotation
- -0.080000000000000016
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1904a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1904a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-09-25T12:09:45+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
