Barnard 163
noirlab_noao0702b January 7th, 2007
Credit: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Barnard 163 is a dark nebula within IC1396, a very large emission nebula complex in the constellation Cepheus. This interstellar cloud was discovered by Edward Emerson (E. E.) Barnard (1857-1923), an American astronomer and pioneer of astrophotography who began as an amateur comet hunter, earned a degree in mathematics and later worked at Lick Observatory and the University of Chicago. He is also the namesake of Barnard’s star, the second closest known star system to Earth.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0702b/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao0702b
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Barnard 163
- Credits
- T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2007-01-07T00:00:00
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- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0702b/
- Type
- Observation
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- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 325.521616, 56.86952469
- Reference Dimension
- 4000.0, 4038.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2161.251907, 2939.713135
- Scale
- -0.000147, 0.000148
- Rotation
- -179.9241539
- 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
- noao0702b
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao0702b.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:21.755719
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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