Ground-based view of two galaxy neighbours: M81 and M82
esahubble_heic0103d March 7th, 2001
Credit: Robert Gendler
This ground-based image of M81 (left) and M82 (right) was taken by Robert Gendler with a 12 inch telescope from a suburb outside Hartford, Connecticut. The distance between the two popular galaxies is 37 arc-minutes (approximately a moon diameter). Credit: Robert Gendler
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0103d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- heic0103d
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.3
- Subject Name
- Messier 81, Messier 82, NGC 3031, NGC 3034
- Credits
- Robert Gendler
- Release Date
- 2001-03-07T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0103d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A - two objects.
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- T
- Coordinate Frame
- FK5
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 148.831963694, 69.3305833525
- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 2002.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1500.0, 1001.0
- Scale
- -0.000349740864303, 0.000349740864303
- Rotation
- -87.46
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0103d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0103d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:04:09+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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