Wide-field view of the sky around the young star HD 100546
This picture shows the sky around the young star HD 100546 in the southern constellation of Musca (The Fly). It was created from images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The cross-like features that are centred on brighter stars, as well as the coloured circles around them, are artifacts of the telescope and photographic process and are not real.
Credit:ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
About the Image
| Id: | eso1310f |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 28 February 2013, 16:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1310 |
| Size: | 7129 x 7143 px |
About the Object
| Name: | HD 100546 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk : Protoplanetary |
| Constellation: | Musca |
| Category: | Stars
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Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 11 33 24.99 |
| Position (Dec): | -70° 11' 37.77" |
| Field of view: | 119.76 x 120.00 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 3.6° left of vertical |
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