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English: The shadowy clouds of LDN 1622 are pictured in this observation from the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. This image was captured in 2018 by the Mosaic-3 instrument, a wide-field camera used to capture large swaths of the night sky from Kitt Peak in Arizona.Mosaic-3 has since been retired to make way for the <a href="https://noirlab.edu/public/projects/desi/">Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument </a>(DESI), the most powerful multi-object survey spectrograph in the world. This swap highlights one of the benefits of ground-based astronomy: the ability to upgrade and replace instruments as new technologies become available.LDN 1622 is a dark nebula, so called because these dense interstellar clouds of gas and dust blot out light from background objects, appearing as ink-dark clouds against a backdrop of stars. This enigmatic cosmic cloud lies 1300 light-years from Earth in the nearby Orion complex, a star-forming region thronging with young stars and other dark nebulae.This observation was taken before the2022 Contreras Fire, which affected KPNO. |
Date | 21 June 2023 (upload date) |
Source | Dark Shrouds in Orion |
Author | KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. A. Rector Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) |
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Credit/Provider | KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. A. RectorImage processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) |
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JPEG file comment | The shadowy clouds of LDN 1622 are pictured in this observation from the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. This image was captured in 2018 by the Mosaic-3 instrument, a wide-field camera used to capture large swaths of the night sky from Kitt Peak in Arizona. Mosaic-3 has since been retired to make way for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the most powerful multi-object survey spectrograph in the world. This swap highlights one of the benefits of ground-based astronomy: the ability to upgrade and replace instruments as new technologies become available. LDN 1622 is a dark nebula, so called because these dense interstellar clouds of gas and dust blot out light from background objects, appearing as ink-dark clouds against a backdrop of stars. This enigmatic cosmic cloud lies 1300 light-years from Earth in the nearby Orion complex, a star-forming region thronging with young stars and other dark nebulae. This observation was taken before the 2022 Contreras Fire, which affected KPNO. |
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Date and time of digitizing | 12:19, 14 March 2023 |
File change date and time | 21:07, 14 June 2023 |
Date metadata was last modified | 21:07, 14 June 2023 |
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Keywords | LDN 1622 |
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