K-band image of the Galactic Centre
eso_eso0313h May 13th, 2003
Credit: ESO
K-band image of the central 6 x 13 square arcsec around the Galactic Centre obtained by MACAO-VLTI under average atmospheric conditions (0.8 arcsec seeing) with an exposure time of 90 seconds. Although the 14.6 magnitude guide star is located roughly 20 arcsec from the field centre - this leading to isoplanatic degradation of image sharpness - the present image is nearly diffraction limited and has a point-source FWHM of about 0.115 arcsec.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0313h/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
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- ID
- eso0313h
- Subject Category
- B.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- Milky Way Galactic Centre
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2003-05-13T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0313h/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from the Max-Planck-Institute. (http://www.mpe.mpg.de/SPIFFI/preprints/first_result_an1.pdf)
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope Interferometer
- Instrument
- AMBER
- Color Assignment
- Blue
- Band
- Infrared
- Bandpass
- K
- Central Wavelength
- 2200
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.417126983, -29.0077746025
- Reference Dimension
- 1386.0, 603.0
- Reference Pixel
- 693.0, 301.5
- Scale
- -2.98277741058e-06, 2.98277741058e-06
- Rotation
- 5.9774250265613063
- 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
- eso0313h
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0313h.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2016-07-18T13:37:42+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
