Rosette Nebula Captured with DECam
noirlab_noirlab2424a October 1st, 2024
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
Cradled within the fiery petals of the Rosette Nebula is NGC 2244, the young star cluster which it nurtured. The cluster’s stars light up the nebula in vibrant hues of red, gold and purple, and opaque towers of dust rise from the billowing clouds around its excavated core. This image, captured by 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab, is being released in celebration of NOIRLab’s fifth anniversary.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2424a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2424a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 2244
- Credits
- CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2024-10-01T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2424a/
- 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
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- S II, H-alpha + NII, OIII
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 662, 501
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 98.0456621297, 4.91767193277
- Reference Dimension
- 21057.0, 17915.0
- Reference Pixel
- 10529.0, 8957.0
- Scale
- -7.4997125551711e-05, 7.49995587969566e-05
- Rotation
- 0.011708077726382
- 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
- noirlab2424a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2424a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-09-17T23:52:29+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
