Spiral galaxy NGC 2997
eso_eso9921a March 6th, 1999
Credit: ESO
This is a three-colour composite of the spiral galaxy NGC 2997 in the southern constellation Antlia (The Air Pump), obtained with the VLT UT1 and FORS1 in the morning of March 5, 1999. It is based on three exposures in V (green; 3 min; image quality 0.35 arcsec), R (red; 3 min; 0.34 arcsec) and I (near-infrared; 5 min; 0.25 arcsec) bands, with the Moon above the horizon. The field measures 3.4 x 3.4 arcmin 2 or, at the distance of the galaxy (about 55 million light-years), 55,000 x 55,000 light-years. FORS1 was operated in high-resolution imaging mode ; the pixel size was 0.1 arsec.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9921a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso9921a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 2997
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 1999-03-06T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9921a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS1, FORS1, FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 655, 557, 440
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 146.411765, -31.19135
- Reference Dimension
- 2071.0, 2044.0
- Reference Pixel
- 665.153088507, 739.229949605
- Scale
- -2.759438e-05, 2.759438e-05
- Rotation
- 0.04253121472
- 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
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso9921a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9921a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-10-20T12:18:45+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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