NGC 6240 taken by the Dark Energy Camera
noirlab_iotw2342c October 18th, 2023
Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/GNIRS Team Image processing: M. Rodriguez (Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
A detailed image of NGC 6240 taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). DECam was made by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2342c/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- iotw2342c
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 6240
- Credits
- International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/GNIRS Team Image processing: M. Rodriguez (Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2023-10-18T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2342c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- z, r, g
- Central Wavelength
- 926, 642, 473
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 253.245002119498, 2.4013850634238123
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 1688.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1500.0, 844.0
- Scale
- -7.299070530767682e-05, 7.299070530767682e-05
- Rotation
- -89.94
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- iotw2342c
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/iotw2342c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-10-04T02:03:11-07:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
