First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory’s Callisto Telescope
This first light image from the Callisto telescope at the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory (SSO) shows the famous Horsehead Nebula . First light for a newly commissioned telescope is a tremendously exciting time, and usually well-known astronomical objects such as this are captured to celebrate a new telescope commencing operations.
The SSO is installed at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the vast Atacama Desert, Chile, and consists of four 1-metre planet-hunting telescopes. The project’s telescopes are named after Jupiter’s Galilean moons, and are neighbours of ESO's Very Large Telescope and VISTA . SPECULOOS will focus on detecting Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby ultra-cool stars and brown dwarfs.
Crediti:SPECULOOS Team/E. Jehin/ESO
A proposito dell'immagine
Identificazione: | eso1839i |
Tipo: | Osservazione |
Data di pubblicazione: | Mercoledì 05 Dicembre 2018 12:00 |
Notizie relative: | eso1839 |
Dimensione: | 2039 x 2030 px |
A proposito delll'oggetto
Nome: | Horsehead Nebula |
Tipo: | Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Dark |
Constellation: | Orion |
Categoria: | Nebulae |
Coordinate
Position (RA): | 5 41 4.52 |
Position (Dec): | -2° 27' 24.91" |
Field of view: | 11.79 x 11.74 arcminutes |
Orientazione: | Il Nord è a 89.2° a sinistra della verticale |