Dark Energy Survey deep field image
noirlab_noirlab2118a May 27th, 2021
Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgments: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller, M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, providing a glimpse of distant galaxies and helping determine their 3D distribution in the cosmos. The image is teeming with galaxies — in fact, nearly every single object in this image is a galaxy. Some exceptions include a couple of dozen asteroids as well as a few handfuls of foreground stars in our own Milky Way.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2118a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2118a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Sextans constellation
- Credits
- Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgments: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller, M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2021-05-27T08:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2118a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- i, r, g
- Central Wavelength
- 782, 640, 471
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 149.806094824, 1.30599153896
- Reference Dimension
- 4200.0, 2200.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2100.0, 1100.0
- Scale
- -7.30514206493e-05, 7.30514206493e-05
- Rotation
- -0
- 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
- noirlab2118a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2118a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-05-23T18:34:36+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
