The importance of high resolution
eso_eso8904d May 11th, 1989
Credit: ESO
These four images illustrate the importance of improving the resolution of astronomical images. They also demonstrate the great potential of the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT), in terms of finer detail and fainter limiting magnitude. The field shown is near the centre of the bright southern globular cluster Centauri. It measures arcseconds square and covers about 1/16 of the area of the CCD frame, shown on photo (C); it is also indicated on photo (A).
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso8904d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso8904d
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 5139, Omega Centauri
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 1989-05-11T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso8904d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- ESO 3.6-metre telescope, ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope, New Technology Telescope
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale, Grayscale, Grayscale
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 1437.0, 1617.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Zeutschel Omniscan 11
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso8904d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso8904d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-12-10T22:11:43+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
