Planetary Nebula MWP1

Noirlab_noao-mwp1_1024

noirlab_noao-mwp1 June 30th, 2020

Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. MWP1 is a very usually shaped, unusually large, and unusually old, planetary nebulae. The progenitor star is also one of the hottest stars known, so hot it is producing large amounts of X-rays. The image was generated with observations in the Oxygen [OIII] (blue) and Hydrogen-Alpha (orange) filters. In this image, North is up, East is to the left.

Provider: NOIRLab

Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-mwp1/

Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
MWP1
Noirlab_noao-mwp1_128
 

Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 21h 17m 17.8s
DEC = 34° 9’ 27.1”
Orientation
North is 0.1° CW
Field of View
16.5 x 13.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Cygnus

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Orange KPNO-4m (Mosaic I) Optical (Ha) 656.0 nm
Cyan KPNO-4m (Mosaic I) Optical (Olll) 499.0 nm
None
Spectrum_base
Orange
Cyan
Noirlab_noao-mwp1_1280
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ID
noao-mwp1
Subject Category
Subject Name
MWP1
Credits
T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
Release Date
2020-06-30T21:34:08.437788
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-mwp1/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
None
Facility
Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Instrument
Mosaic I, Mosaic I
Color Assignment
Orange, Cyan
Band
Optical, Optical
Bandpass
Ha, Olll
Central Wavelength
656, 499
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
None, None
Notes
N
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
319.3243557, 34.15753561
Reference Dimension
3792.0, 3015.0
Reference Pixel
1557.108986, 961.2420349
Scale
-7.26E-05, 7.26E-05
Rotation
-0.09357263158
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
None
Creator (Curator)
NSF's NOIRLab
URL
https://noirlab.edu
Name
Email
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
noao-mwp1
Metadata Date
2024-10-02T11:52:21.360031
Metadata Version
1.1
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