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Red Rectangle overview image 1 (ground-based image)

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esahubble_heic0408c May 11th, 2004

Credit: ESA and Digitized Sky Survey 2

This is a ground-based view of the sky around the Red Rectangle. The image spans a square of one degree and was constructed from three images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 taken in Blue, Infrared and Red (shown as blue, green and red respectively). Note that the HST picture only shows the innermost part of the nebula.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0408c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: HD 44179 • Red Rectangle
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 6h 19m 58.3s; DEC = -10° 38’ 14.7”
Orientation: North is up
Field of View: 1.0 x 1.0 degrees
Constellation: Monoceros

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	DSS (None)	Optical (R)	-
	DSS (None)	Optical (B)	-

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ID: heic0408c
Subject Category: B.4
Subject Name: HD 44179, Red Rectangle
Credits: ESA and Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: 2004-05-11T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0408c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: DSS, DSS
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Red, Blue

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: R, B
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 94.9929203292, -10.6374268296
Reference Dimension: 3564.0, 3571.0

Reference Pixel: 1782.0, 1785.5
Scale: -0.000280144853726, 0.000280144853726
Rotation: 0
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email

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: heic0408c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0408c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2004-05-07T12:14:24+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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