Van den Bergh 142 and IC 1396
noirlab_noao-vdb142block June 13th, 2014
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block
IC 1396, also known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula, is another region of recent star formation. Many stars in this area are less than a couple hundred thousand years old - very young in the grand scheme of astronomy, where stars live to be billions of years old! The hot young stars are in the process of ionizing and expelling the molecular hydrogen gas. At the same time, new stars are still being born in this nebula. For more information, check out this fantastic APOD taken in early 2014, with the WIYN research telescope on Kitt Peak! 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-vdb142block/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-vdb142block
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- IC 1396
- Credits
- KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block
- Release Date
- 2014-06-13T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-vdb142block/
- 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
- 323.299185668, 57.4337980519
- Reference Dimension
- 2184.0, 1472.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1374.61785126, 777.080070496
- Scale
- -0.000736340993554, 0.000735589275029
- Rotation
- -6.0485003346616
- 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-vdb142block
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-vdb142block.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-30T16:51:39+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
