Wallpaper author:
Bernard Miller
26 Sept 2021
Galactic Center
This is an image of the Galactic Center. The Galactic Center contains an exotic collection of objects, including a supermassive black hole weighing about 4 million times the mass of the Sun (called Sagittarius A*), clouds of gas at temperatures of millions of degrees, neutron stars and white dwarf stars.
Dataset from which the image was processed
Galactic Center
10 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Asterism
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 266.4168 Dec -29.00782
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Australia
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................03 Jul 2021 - 26 Sept 2021
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 743 | 4h20m | 21 |
| Red | 514 | 3h | 21 |
| Green | 600 | 3h30m | 21 |
| Blue | 540 | 3h | 20 |