The Small Magellanic Cloud

eso_eso1008b February 24th, 2010

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin

Wide field image, based on data from Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy and is centred on the star-forming region NGC 346.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1008b/

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: Small Magellanic Cloud • SMC
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Irregular

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 0h 59m 17.9s; DEC = -72° 10’ 48.0”
Orientation: North is 178.1° CCW
Field of View: 3.7 x 3.9 degrees
Constellation: Tucana

Color Mapping

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

ID: eso1008b
Subject Category: C.5.1.6
Subject Name: Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC
Credits: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2010-02-24T12:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1008b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from Simbad.

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

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: R, B
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 14.8246, -72.179994
Reference Dimension: 3847.0, 4000.0

Reference Pixel: 1880.51041256, 1585.66011285
Scale: -0.00096425666, 0.00096425666
Rotation: 178.13877325754
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: eso1008b

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1008b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2006-04-14T01:39:19+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

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