Star PV Cep
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. PV Cep is the star embedded in the cloud of gas near the center of the image. It is a star in the process of forming. As it forms, it is also ejecting hot jets of gas, which can be seen as the gently curved, "S-shaped" line of red blobs of gas that extend to the upper-right and lower-left of PV Cep. The V-shaped cone of light just above PV Cep is red on the right side because the H-alpha data for this image was obtained on two nights over a year apart (June 10th, 2010 and September 16th, 2011). During that time, the illumination of the cone of light by PV Cep changed dramatically. The image was generated with B (blue), V (green), I (orange) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red) filters. In this image, north is up, and east is to the left.
Credit:T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
About the Image
Id: | noao-pvcep |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | June 30, 2020, 9:53 p.m. |
Size: | 3364 x 5044 px |
About the Object
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 20 46 36.02 |
Position (Dec): | 67° 52' 37.81" |
Field of view: | 14.55 x 21.88 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 179.9° left of vertical |
Colors & filters
Band | Wave-length | Tele-scope |
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Optical B | 436 nm | Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope Mosaic I |
Optical V | 537 nm | Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope Mosaic I |
Optical I | 805 nm | Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope Mosaic I |
Optical Ha | 656 nm | Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope Mosaic I |