Giant star HD 47536

eso_eso0305b January 22nd, 2003

Sky area of 10 x 10 square arcmin around the 6th-magnitude giant star HD 47536 at which an exoplanet has been found in 2003 (reproduced from the Digital Sky Survey). The pattern is caused by internal reflections in the telescope from this relatively bright object.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0305b/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: HD 47536
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Spectral Type > K

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 6h 37m 48.5s; DEC = -32° 20’ 15.1”
Orientation: North is up
Field of View: 10.0 x 10.0 arcminutes
Constellation: Canis Major

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	-

ID: eso0305b
Subject Category: B.3.3.6
Subject Name: HD 47536
Credits: Reproduced from the Digital Sky Survey [STScI Digitized Sky Survey, (C) 1993, 1994, AURA, Inc. all rights reserved - cf.http://archive.eso.org/dss/dss]

Release Date: 2003-01-22T00:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0305b/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument: None
Color Assignment: Red

Band: Optical
Bandpass: R
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 99.4521987253, -32.3375221321
Reference Dimension: 1280.0, 1283.0

Reference Pixel: 619.0, 654.0
Scale: -0.000129724041364, 0.000129724041364
Rotation: 0
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Notes

Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: http://www.eso.org/
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Email

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: eso0305b

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0305b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2016-07-18T11:38:31+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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