R Aquarii as seen in 1997
eso_potw1850b December 10th, 2018
Credit: T. Liimets et al./ESO
This image shows a chaotic and fascinating binary star system named R Aquarii, as seen in 1997 by the Nordic Optical Telescope on the island of La Palma, Spain. In the 15 years since this image was taken the system has been observed many more times by other telescopes, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope, and has been seen to be expanding and evolving in shape. An image from 2012 can be seen here.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1850b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- potw1850b
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.1
- Subject Name
- R Aquarii
- Credits
- T. Liimets et al./ESO
- Release Date
- 2018-12-10T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1850b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- SIMBAD
- Facility
- Nordic Optical Telescope
- Instrument
- ALFOSC
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- OII
- Central Wavelength
- 372
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 355.956657671, -15.2865758279
- Reference Dimension
- 1873.0, 1166.0
- Reference Pixel
- 936.5, 583.0
- Scale
- -5.32631007842e-05, 5.32631007842e-05
- Rotation
- 0.059999999999981374
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- potw1850b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/potw1850b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-10-11T09:19:19.399839
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
