VLT image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (18 February 2026)
eso_eso2608c July 6th, 2026
Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut
This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was taken on 18 February 2026 with the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). It is a stack of several images spanning 13 minutes. As the comet moves on the sky, the stars appear as trails in the background.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2608c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso2608c
- Subject Category
- A.2.2
- Subject Name
- 3I/ATLAS
- Credits
- ESO/O. Hainaut
- Release Date
- 2026-07-06T11:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2608c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 3238.0, 1820.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://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
- eso2608c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2608c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2026-03-04T17:47:15+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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