k61 Planetary Nebula
noirlab_gemini1108a July 25th, 2011
Credit: International Gemini Observatory/AURA
Gemini Observatory image of Kronberger 61 showing the ionized shell of expelled gas resembling a soccer ball. The light of the nebula is primarily due to ionized oxygen (oxygen-III) emission and its central star can be seen as the slightly bluer star very close to the center of the nebula. The field of view is 2.2 x 3.4 arcminutes with north up (rotated 22 degrees west of north). Image processing by Travis Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage. A color composite image, it consists of two narrow-band images (O-III and Hydrogen-alpha with three, 500-second integrations each) obtained with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai‘i. Below the bright star at left is a barred spiral galaxy in the distant background, careful inspection will reveal several additional distant galaxies in the image.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/gemini1108a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- gemini1108a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- k61, Kronberger 61, Soccer Ball Nebula
- Credits
- International Gemini Observatory/AURA
- Release Date
- 2011-07-25T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/gemini1108a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Gemini North, Gemini North
- Instrument
- GMOS-N, GMOS-N
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Cyan
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Ha, Olll
- Central Wavelength
- 656, 499
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 290.415844222, 38.310695545
- Reference Dimension
- 900.0, 1400.0
- Reference Pixel
- 450.0, 700.0
- Scale
- -4.04898842472e-05, 4.04898842472e-05
- Rotation
- 22.04000000000002
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- gemini1108a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/gemini1108a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:21.699156
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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