Veil Filaments (Cygnus Loop)
noirlab_noao-veil_filaments June 30th, 2020
Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. It shows faint filaments that are part of a large supernova remnant called the Cygnus Loop. It is located about 1,500 light-years from Earth. These filaments are the remains of a star that exploded 5,000 to 10,000 years ago. The image was generated with observations in the Oxygen [OIII] (blue), Sulphur [S II] (green) and Hydrogen-Alpha (orange) filters. In this image, North is down, East is right.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-veil_filaments/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-veil_filaments
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Cygnus Loop, Veil Filaments
- Credits
- T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:12
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-veil_filaments/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Ha, Sll, Olll
- Central Wavelength
- 656, 672, 499
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 312.538396339, 30.2390026205
- Reference Dimension
- 8192.0, 8192.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3174.51457214, 4861.93502045
- Scale
- -7.20104665606e-05, 7.23003596637e-05
- Rotation
- -179.87385988853
- 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-veil_filaments
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-veil_filaments.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:25.447702
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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