Wide-field view of the centre of the Milky Way
eso_galactic-centre-a December 16th, 2019
Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin and S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)
This visible light wide-field view shows the rich star clouds in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer) in the direction of the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. The entire image is filled with vast numbers of stars — but far more remain hidden behind clouds of dust and are only revealed in infrared images. This view was created from photographs in red and blue light and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is approximately 3.5 degrees x 3.6 degrees.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/galactic-centre-a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
View Options
Download Options
Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- galactic-centre-a
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- Milky Way Galactic Centre
- Credits
- ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin and S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)
- Release Date
- 2019-12-16T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/galactic-centre-a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Other, Other, Other, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- N/A, N/A, N/A, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Green, Blue, Orange, Luminosity
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B, R, B
- Central Wavelength
- 625, 550, 425, 649, 479.5
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.3951064, -28.9956612338
- Reference Dimension
- 4257.0, 1775.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2128.5, 887.5
- Scale
- -0.000139637673488, 0.000139637673488
- Rotation
- -121.26000000000009
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- 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
- galactic-centre-a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/galactic-centre-a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-11-19T15:10:42+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
