| ING Media Archival Record |
| ITEM REFERENCE | 1857 |
| PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1857 |
| EXTACCESS | yes |
| COLLECTION | Image archive |
| TITLE | NGC 6543 |
| KEYWORDS | High-quality images;Nebulae |
| DATE | 2009-01-01 |
| DESCRIPTION | NGC 6543, nicknamed the Cats Eye Nebula, is one of the most complex of the planetary class nebula, stars that throw of spheres of gas at the end of their lives. It is located in the constellation Draco and is thought to have been created 1000 years ago by two stars orbiting each other. This image of the Cats Eye Nebula or NGC 6543 was obtained using the Wide Field Camera on the Isaac Newton Telescope. It is a three-colour composite made from data collected using filters to isolate the light emitted by hydrogen alpha (H-alpha), doubly ionised oxygen (OIII) and ionised sulfur (SII) atoms, and coded in the image as red, green and blue respectively. PDF version: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/NGC6543.pdf, http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/dissemination/ngc6543.pdf |
| CREDIT | Daniel Lopez and Rafael Barrena (IAC). |
| TELESCOPE | JKT |
| INSTRUMENT | JKTCCD |
| RELATED URL | http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/ngc6543.html |
| THUMB_75 | 
https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/science/ngc6543_lopez.jpg |
| AVAILABLE FILES | JPG (340K) 2500×2560 pixels
TIF (36.6M) 2500×2560 pixels |
| TIMESTAMP | 2024-09-01 10:11:58 |
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