The Orion Nebula*
eso_eso1103a January 19th, 2011
Credit: ESO/Igor Chekalin
This new image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This image is a composite of several exposures taken through a total of five different filters. Light that passed through a red filter, as well as light from a filter that shows the glowing hydrogen gas, is coloured red. Light in the yellow–green part of the spectrum is coloured green, blue light is coloured blue and light that passed through an ultraviolet filter has been coloured purple. The exposure times were about 52 minutes through each filter. This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1103a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1103a
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1.1 B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- M 42, Messier 42, Orion Nebula
- Credits
- ESO/Igor Chekalin
- Release Date
- 2011-01-19T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1103a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from ESO.
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Blue, Purple
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, R, V, B, U
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 651, 539, 451, 340
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.822156, -5.390986
- Reference Dimension
- 1280.0, 1230.0
- Reference Pixel
- 483.704385997, 737.916183289
- Scale
- -0.00046210205, 0.00046210205
- Rotation
- 0.02345274615
- 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
- eso1103a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1103a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-12-17T16:58:08+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
