Interacting Galaxies in the Capodimonte Deep Field
This is an image of interacting galaxies that are seen in the Capodimonte Deep Field. The enlargement covers 1250 x 1130 WFI pixels (1 pixel = 0.24 arcsec), or about 5.0 x 4.5 arcmin 2 in the sky. The lower spiral is itself an interactive double.
Technical information: this image displays selected areas of the field shown in ESO Press Photo eso0116a at the original WFI scale, hereby also demonstrating the enormous amount of information contained in these wide-field images. North is up and East is left.
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ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso0116b |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 10 April 2001 |
| Related releases: | eso0116 |
| Size: | 3000 x 2638 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Capodimonte Deep Field |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Interplanetary Body • Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field • X - Cosmology |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope WFI |
| Optical V |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope WFI |
| Optical R |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope WFI |
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