Cone Nebula
noirlab_noao-conegariepy June 6th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Michael Gariepy/Adam Block
The Cone Nebula is located at the southern end of star cluster NGC 2264, in Monoceros. It is a column of dark dust, six lightyears long, near some of the newly-formed hot blue stars of the cluster. This object parallels the dust pillars seen in the Eagle Nebula, where regions of thick dust and gas resist being cleared away by the intense ultraviolet radiation from young giant stars. The edge of the column, especially the tip, is bright with red light from ionized hydrogen. This nebula and the cluster that illuminates it are about 2600 lightyears away. This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program during 2014 at Kitt Peak Visitor Center.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-conegariepy/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-conegariepy
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Cone Nebula
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Michael Gariepy/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-06-06T09:51:41
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-conegariepy/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope, Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD, Other CCD
- Color Assignment
- Luminosity, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Broad Band, B, G, R
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 438, 475, 625
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 100.329334565, 9.43739761496
- Reference Dimension
- 1526.0, 1074.0
- Reference Pixel
- 521.12254715, 506.68838501
- Scale
- -0.000125470872222, 0.000125914555385
- Rotation
- 11.883592989359
- 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-conegariepy
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-conegariepy.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T17:03:47+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
