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IC434 - Horsehead Nebula
ESO-VLT-UT2-KUEYEN, intrument FORS2 Standard Resolution collimator (0.6 arcsec/pix), CCD TK2048 SITe, FIERA CCD controller from ESO-Optical Detector Team during FORS2 comissionning 2.
Orginal raw FITS images retrieved from public archive

Here is the official ESO press release for that Image

Filter
Date of observation
Seeing (")
Exposure (s)
R special cw=650nm fwhm=150nm
2000-02-01 at 02:01:37.534
0.72
120
V (bessell) cw=510nm fwhm=100nm
2000-02-01 at 01:55:35.668
0.77
300
B (bessell) cw=450 fwhm=100nm
2000-02-01 at 01:44:34.321
0.80
600

The field is 6.8x6.8 arcmin, F/D=3.13

Image processed by C.Cavadore using the the PRiSM software

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