HAWK-I image of NGC 4030
eso_eso1042e October 27th, 2010
Credit: ESO/P. Grosbøl
This spiral galaxy, NGC 4030, lies about 75 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Virgo. In 2007 Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut who doubles as an amateur astronomer, spotted a supernova — a stellar explosion that is briefly almost as bright as its host galaxy — going off in this galaxy. The image was made in infrared light with the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile. HAWK-I is one of the most powerful infrared imagers in the world, and this is one of the sharpest and most detailed pictures of this galaxy ever taken from Earth. The filters used were Y (shown here in blue), J (in green), H (in orange), and K (in red). The field of view of the image is about 6.4 arcminutes across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1042e/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1042e
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 4030
- Credits
- ESO/P. Grosbøl
- Release Date
- 2010-10-27T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1042e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Approximate distance in light years from ESO.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- HAWK-I, HAWK-I, HAWK-I
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- H, J, Y
- Central Wavelength
- 1630, 1220, 1020
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 180.098717, -1.099757
- Reference Dimension
- 3654.0, 3643.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1825.88350189, 1841.36628543
- Scale
- -2.957035e-05, 2.957035e-05
- Rotation
- -0.22481441966
- 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
- eso1042e
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1042e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-10-18T17:40:06+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
