Snake Nebula
noirlab_noao-snakemcquillan June 13th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Tom McQuillan/Adam Block
Perhaps this is from when jealous Hera snatched one of the snakes she sent to dispatch baby Hercules in his crib? The picture here shows obscuring clouds of dust towards the center of our galaxy. The left of the frame begins with B78 at the end of the much larger "pipe" nebula. The snake-like B72 slithers near the center of the image. To its lower right B74 is a very opaque cloud of dust that completely hides the stars beyond. This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-snakemcquillan/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-snakemcquillan
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Snake Nebula
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Tom McQuillan/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-06-13T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-snakemcquillan/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visitor Center Roll Off Roof Observatory, Visitor Center Roll Off Roof Observatory, Visitor Center Roll Off Roof Observatory, Visitor Center Roll Off Roof Observatory
- 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
- 261.015258039, -24.1341297541
- Reference Dimension
- 1099.0, 1635.0
- Reference Pixel
- 244.721763611, 773.150749207
- Scale
- -0.00133348235587, 0.00133354759384
- Rotation
- -89.349459049141
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- John McQuillan/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF
- 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-snakemcquillan
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-snakemcquillan.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T19:52:04+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
