Colour-composite of the sky field with several High-Redshift galaxies
eso_eso0326a August 21st, 2003
Credit: ESO
Sky region imaged with the multi-mode FORS2 instrument on the 8.2-m VLT YEPUN telescope, in which a number of galaxies in the redshift range from 4.8 to 5.8 were discovered. They are accordingly located at a distance of about 12,600 million light-years from the Earth. This is a composite image where the blue, green and red colours correspond to the R- (central wavelength at 650 nm), the I- (about 780 nm), and the z-band filter (910 nm), respectively. The size of the sky field corresponds to about 1,000 million light-years at the distance of these galaxies. North is up and East is left.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0326a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0326a
- Subject Category
- D.5.5.4
- Subject Name
- Galaxies
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2003-08-21T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0326a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Average redshift distance of observation.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS2, FORS2, FORS2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- Z, I, R
- Central Wavelength
- 910, 780, 650
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 336.791770788, -35.3577289905
- Reference Dimension
- 782.0, 788.0
- Reference Pixel
- 391.0, 394.0
- Scale
- -0.00014047478035, 0.00014047478035
- Rotation
- -0.12000000000000001
- 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
- eso0326a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0326a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-01-12T15:22:58+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
