Wide-field image of the sky around the Fried Egg nebula
eso_eso1136c September 28th, 2011
Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2
This visible light wide-field image of the region around the yellow hypergiant star IRAS 17163-3907 was created from photographs taken through blue, red and infrared filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The star appears close to the centre, indistinguishable from thousands of others. This very rich star field in the direction of the centre of the Milky Way also features the blue ring-shaped planetary nebula NGC 6337 to the upper left of centre, as well as several star clusters and some faint clouds of glowing gas. The field of view is approximately 2.9 degrees across.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1136c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1136c
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3 B.3.2.6
- Subject Name
- IRAS 17163-3907
- Credits
- ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2011-09-28T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1136c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, G, R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 259.955482, -39.177061
- Reference Dimension
- 10651.0, 10674.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5327.62313632, 5334.57526674
- Scale
- -0.0002797474, 0.0002797474
- Rotation
- -0.57812259387
- 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
- eso1136c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1136c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-08-22T10:35:49+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
