Press Releases 1997

The Brown Dwarf KELU-1

This photo shows a small sky area around the newly discovered Brown Dwarf object KELU-1 in the southern constellation of Hydra (The Water-Snake). It is indicated with tick marks.

Observations described in ESO Press Release 07/97 (28 April 1997) have shown that this object is located at a distance of only about 10 parsec from the Sun. Moreover, it is single and is therefore not disturbed by any other objects in its neighbourhood.

This image was obtained on March 15, 1997, through a near-infrared `gunn-i' filter with the EFOSC1 multimode instrument at the ESO 3.6-m telescope at La Silla. The exposure lasted 40 seconds and was made during good sky conditions. The field measures approx. 5 x 5 arcmin; North is up and East is left.

This is the caption to ESO PR Photo 11/97 [JPEG, 144k] which accompanies ESO Press Release 07/97 (28 April 1997). It is also available in a high-resolution version [JPEG; 2505 x 3000 pix; 1.3Mb] for reproduction purposes. It may be reproduced, if credit is given to the European Southern Observatory.

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