Pelican Nebula Ionization Front
noirlab_noao-jb_pelican June 30th, 2020
Credit: John Bally (U.Colorado), NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
This is a false color composite image of the ionization front at the edge of the Pelican Nebula (IC5070) in the constellation Cygnus. By using narrow filters centered around the specific emission lines we expect to see from different elements in different states, we can determine exactly what physical process is responsible for the state of the nebula. In this instance, red comes from the H-alpha line at 656nm and blue-green comes from the SII line at 672nm. This image was obtained with the 2048x2048 pixel CCD (T2KA) at the 0.9 meter telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-jb_pelican/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- noao-jb_pelican
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Pelican Nebula
- Credits
- John Bally (U.Colorado), NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:10
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-jb_pelican/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- T2KA, T2KA
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Sll, Ha
- Central Wavelength
- 672, 656
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 312.5636583, 44.40281174
- Reference Dimension
- 901.0, 900.0
- Reference Pixel
- 673.2540894, 351.2353287
- Scale
- -0.00043, 0.00043
- Rotation
- -178.8134043
- 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-jb_pelican
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-jb_pelican.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:28.582168
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
