Rho-Ophiuchus Hershel image

rhooph_hershel

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Image is centered around ICRS coordinates: 16h27m27s -24d11m57s.
Pixel scale: 3.2 arcsec per pixel.
Image size: 5.1 deg by 5.1 deg.

Colour composite image was created using the following bands as colour channels:

  • Red: SPIRE250 band at 250.0 μm taken with SPIRE instrument at Herschel telescope.
  • Green: PACS160 band at 160.0 μm taken with PACS instrument at Herschel telescope.
  • Blue: PACS70 band at 70.0 μm taken with PACS instrument at Herschel telescope.

Images were stretched using the prepipy algorithm.


The fullsize version of this image (click on image to view) contains machine-readable coordinate (WCS) information. The image can be downloaded and viewed in applications such as the Aladin sky atlas via “drag-and-drop” or by pasting the image’s permalink into the command-line.