Owl Nebula, M97, NGC 3587
noirlab_noao0310a July 9th, 2003
Credit: Karen Kwitter (Williams College), Ron Downes (STScI), You-Hua Chu (University of Illinois) and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
This composite image of the Owl Nebula (also known as M97 or NGC3587) was created from three sets of narrowband images taken at the 0.6-meter Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in June 1991. The colors in the image correspond to oxygen [O III] in blue, nitrogen [N II] in green, and hydrogen [H-alpha] in red.This image was the subject of NOAO Press Release 03-06.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0310a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
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- ID
- noao0310a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M97, NGC 3587, Owl Nebula
- Credits
- Karen Kwitter (Williams College), Ron Downes (STScI), You-Hua Chu (University of Illinois) and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2003-07-09T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0310a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Burrell Schmidt Telescope, Burrell Schmidt Telescope, Burrell Schmidt Telescope
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Bandpass
- Ha, Nll, Olll
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 168.5672531, 55.01312688
- Reference Dimension
- 2099.0, 1337.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1623.933685, 666.3237228
- Scale
- -0.000135, 0.000135
- Rotation
- 2.749188769
- 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
- noao0310a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao0310a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-06-23T07:48:01.267260
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
