The Becklin-Neugebauer object
eso_eso0137g December 3rd, 2001
Credit: ESO
Composite (false-) colour image obtained by NAOS-CONICA of the region around the Becklin-Neugebauer object that is deeply embedded in the Orion Nebula. It is based on two exposures, one in the light of shock-excited molecular hydrogen line (H 2 ; wavelength 2.12 µm; here rendered as blue) and one in the broader K-band (2.2 µm; red) from ionized hydrogen. A third (green) image was produced as an "average" of the H 2 and K-band images. The field-of-view measures 20 x 25 arcsec 2, cf. the 1 x 1 arcsec 2 square. North is up and east to the left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0137g/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- eso0137g
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.1
- Subject Name
- Becklin-Neugebauer Object
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2001-12-03T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0137g/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- NACO, NACO, NACO
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, Pseudogreen (H+K), H
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 577.0, 694.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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
- eso0137g
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0137g.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-30T16:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
