Neighbourhood of SN 1987A
eso_10_sn-1987a_cc June 10th, 2010
Credit: ESO
Image of the neighbourhood of supernova SN 1987A, taken with the NTT, in the light of ionised nitrogen, during very good seeing. The colour coding shows the intensity contours in the image. SN 1987A was detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud in February 1987 and was the first naked-eye supernova in nearly four centuries. ESO telescopes have been observing SN 1987A for more than twenty years. More information in ESO Messenger 59, p16: http://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/archive/no.59-mar90/messenger-no59.pdf
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/10_sn-1987a_cc/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- 10_sn-1987a_cc
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- SN 1987A
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2010-06-10T18:32:05
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/10_sn-1987a_cc/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Approximate distance in light years from NASA.
- Facility
- New Technology Telescope
- Instrument
- EMMI
- Color Assignment
- Red
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- N II
- Central Wavelength
- 658
- Start Time
- 1989-12-18T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- 300
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.865382466, -69.2690255383
- Reference Dimension
- 1241.0, 1233.0
- Reference Pixel
- 620.0, 616.0
- Scale
- -1.60036042644e-05, 1.60036042644e-05
- Rotation
- 3.9600000000000035
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- 10_sn-1987a_cc
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/10_sn-1987a_cc.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-06-10T17:13:10+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
