Ghost of Jupiter, NGC 3242
noirlab_noao-ngc3242 June 30th, 2020
Credit: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/, L. Frattare and Z. Levay/STScI/AURA/NASA
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory on December 15th, 2006. This wide-field image shows the extended cloud of gas near the planetary nebula NGC 3242. Also known as the “Ghost of Jupiter”, NGC 3242 is the bright object just to the upper-right from the center of the image. The nature of the extended nebulosity is not yet known. It may either be a shell of gas that was ejected by NGC 3242 when it was a red giant star. Or it may also be a nearby cloud of interstellar gas that is being illuminated by the planetary nebula. It was observed in the narrowband filters of Oxygen [OIII] (blue) and Hydrogen-Alpha (orange). North is to the left, East is down.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-ngc3242/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-ngc3242
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Ghost of Jupiter, NGC 3242
- Credits
- T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/, L. Frattare and Z. Levay/STScI/AURA/NASA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:09
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-ngc3242/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- 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
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 156.0888453, -18.72717266
- Reference Dimension
- 5420.0, 5236.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2431.611786, 2129.726868
- Scale
- -7.23e-05, 7.21e-05
- Rotation
- 179.8778183
- 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
- noao-ngc3242
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-ngc3242.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-03-28T11:29:53-07:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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