The Triple Stellar System Alpha Centauri (ESO 1-m Schmidt Telescope)
The location of the Alpha Centauri triple stellar system in the sky. The brighter stars (Alpha Centauri A and B) are strongly overexposed, with the outlying member, Proxima lying approx. 2.2° to the south-west (arrow). Smaller areas around the stars are shown in the inserts to the right. The photo has been reproduced from a blue-sensitive photographic plate obtained by the ESO 1-m Schmidt Telescope, a wide-angle telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile that is now decommissioned.
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ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso0307a |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 15 March 2003 |
| Related releases: | eso0307 |
| Size: | 3878 x 2592 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Alpha Centauri |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Triple • X - Stars |
| Distance: | 4 light years |
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| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope |
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