R Aquarii observed using the New Technology Telescope

eso_raqr-ntt December 14th, 2018

Credit: Romano Corradi

R Aquarii observed using the New Technology Telescope in 1991. The white vertical line in the middle is caused by light from the red giant and bright inner nebula saturating the detector.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/raqr-ntt/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: R Aquarii
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Type > Variable

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 23h 43m 49.6s; DEC = -15° 17’ 6.3”
Orientation: North is up
Field of View: 6.5 x 6.5 arcminutes
Constellation: Aquarius

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	NTT (None)	Optical (None)	-

ID: raqr-ntt
Subject Category: B.3.2.1
Subject Name: R Aquarii
Credits: Romano Corradi

Release Date: 2018-12-14T12:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/raqr-ntt/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes

Facility: New Technology Telescope
Instrument: None
Color Assignment: Grayscale

Band: Optical
Bandpass: None
Central Wavelength

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Dataset ID: None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 355.956486602, -15.2850909022
Reference Dimension: 2040.0, 2040.0

Reference Pixel: 1020.0, 1020.0
Scale: -5.31118311055e-05, 5.31118311055e-05
Rotation: -0
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: http://www.eso.org
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Email

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: raqr-ntt

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/raqr-ntt.tif
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Metadata Date: 2018-12-12T10:22:30+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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