Planetary Nebula HDW 3
noirlab_noaoann13006a November 7th, 2013
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. Hartl-Dengel-Weinberger 3 (HDW 3) is a large, ancient planetary nebula. Its distinctive braided shape is the result of the planetary nebula colliding with the interstellar gas around it as the nebula moves through the galaxy. The star that produced the planetary nebula is the faint bluish one just below and to the right of the bright star near the center of the image.The image was generated with observations in Hydrogen alpha (red) and Oxygen III (blue) filters. In this image, North is up, East is to the left.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noaoann13006a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noaoann13006a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- HDW 3
- Credits
- T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2013-11-07T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noaoann13006a/
- 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
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Olll, Ha
- Central Wavelength
- 499, 656
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 51.8116494317, 45.3034994092
- Reference Dimension
- 4656.0, 3438.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2395.25671387, 323.27154541
- Scale
- -7.26789103811e-05, 7.26908133489e-05
- Rotation
- 0.11825442469598
- 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
- noaoann13006a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noaoann13006a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:21.400363
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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