Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237
noirlab_noao-02190 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
The Rosette Nebula, NGC2237, in the constellation of Monoceros, as seen by the Curtis Schmidt telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. The nebula is about 2600 light-years away and about 55 light-years across. The central star cluster is known as NGC2244. North is at the top.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02190/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- ID
- noao-02190
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 2237, Rosette Nebula
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:11
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02190/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 97.99720145, 4.722029196
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 2400.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1641.018453, 939.0002848
- Scale
- -0.000908, 0.000895
- Rotation
- 1.247700118
- 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
- noao-02190
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-02190.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:35.693422
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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