Omega Centauri with the NTT
Four views of Omega Centauri, the largest and most luminous globular cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy. The images, obtained in 1994, come courtesy of ESO's 3.6-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The images demonstrate the improvement in spatial resolution (number given in brackets) reached with the active mirror technology of the NTT.
Credit:
ESO
About the Image
| Id: | ntt-omega-cen-1994 |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:19 |
| Size: | 6024 x 6081 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Omega Centauri |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular • X - Star Clusters |
| Distance: | 17000 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope |
| Optical | ESO 3.6-metre telescope |
| Optical | New Technology Telescope |
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