The sky around NGC 2899

eso_eso2012c July 30th, 2020

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

This image shows the sky around the location of NGC 2899, which is visible at the very centre of the frame. This picture was created from images in the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2012c/

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: NGC 2899
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Type > Planetary

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 9h 26m 60.0s; DEC = -56° 5’ 58.9”
Orientation: North is 0.9° CCW
Field of View: 3.1 x 2.7 degrees
Constellation: Vela

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (None)	Optical (I)	825.0 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	649.0 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (B)	479.0 nm

ID: eso2012c
Subject Category: B.4.1.3
Subject Name: NGC 2899
Credits: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2020-07-30T14:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2012c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R, B
Central Wavelength: 825, 649, 479

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 141.749864739, -56.0996868471
Reference Dimension: 11041.0, 9805.0

Reference Pixel: 5520.5, 4902.5
Scale: -0.000279946921174, 0.000279946921174
Rotation: 0.8600000000000001
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: https://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: eso2012c

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2012c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2020-07-09T12:21:45+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.