Sky field in Ophiuchus

The image shows the a new stellar system, as imaged with the ISAAC multi-mode instrument on the 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope at Paranal during the follow-up observations. The circumstellar disk is well visible in the left part of the field as a shadow in front of the nebula. Many background galaxies are visible in this deep image and one edge-on galaxy is seen visible close to the image centre.

The image is based on the combination of three 10-min exposures in the mentioned infrared filters, obtained with the ISAAC instrument on the 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope. The field measures 2.1 x 1.6 arcmin2. The seeing was 0.4 arcsec and the pixel size is 0.148 arcsec.

Crédit:

ESO

À propos de l'image

Identification:eso0214b
Type:Observation
Date de publication:7 mai 2002
Communiqués de presse en rapport:eso0214
Taille:873 x 698 px

À propos de l'objet

Nom:Rho Ophiuchi
Type:Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk : Protoplanetary
Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object
Distance:500 années lumière
Constellation:Ophiuchus
Catégorie:Stars

Image Formats

Grand JPEG
171,6 Kio
JPEG taille écran
170,1 Kio

Fonds d'écran

1024x768
235,7 Kio
1280x1024
366,0 Kio
1600x1200
489,5 Kio
1920x1200
706,0 Kio
2048x1536
920,5 Kio

Coordinates

Position (RA):16 28 10.71
Position (Dec):-24° 31' 49.68"
Field of view:2.11 x 1.68 arcminutes
Orientation:North is 0.8° left of vertical

Couleurs & filtres

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Infrarouge
J
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC
Infrarouge
H
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC
Infrarouge
K
Very Large Telescope
ISAAC