North America Nebula, NGC 7000 South
noirlab_noaoann15004a April 15th, 2015
Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the KPNO 0.9m-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. NGC 7000, also known as the North America Nebula, is a giant emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. This image shows only the southern tip of the nebula (the Mexico part of the nebula). The nebula is being energized by the light from stars embedded within. The image was generated with observations in Hydrogen alpha (red), Oxygen [OIII] (green) and Sulfur [SII] (blue) filters. In this image, North is up, East is to the left. An image of the eastern part of the nebula is also available on this website.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noaoann15004a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noaoann15004a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 7000, North America Nebula
- Credits
- T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2015-04-15T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noaoann15004a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Sll, Olll, Ha
- Central Wavelength
- 672, 499, 656
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 314.805347119, 43.4173781708
- Reference Dimension
- 8022.0, 8183.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3474.7885437, 1828.99365234
- Scale
- -0.000117881123831, 0.000118036495991
- Rotation
- -0.27336451001247
- 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
- noaoann15004a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noaoann15004a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:25.276225
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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