Deep Dive into Astronomical Data Tapestry of the Milky Way
noirlab_noirlab2301c January 18th, 2023
Credit: DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
This image, which is brimming with stars and dark dust clouds, is a small extract — a mere pinprick — of the full Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2301c/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2301c
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Milky Way
- Credits
- DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2023-01-18T14:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2301c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Cyan, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Y, z, i, r, g
- Central Wavelength
- 1009, 926, 784, 642, 473
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 141.630820825, -48.5651006951
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2157.22318522, 3030.74163818
- Scale
- -0.00116386772381, 0.00116357857079
- Rotation
- -0.48280089249079
- 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
- noirlab2301c
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2301c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-01-16T08:22:07-07:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
