Small Magellanic Cloud (ground-based image)
esahubble_heic0514c November 10th, 2005
Credit: ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble )
The two-colour image shows an overview of the full Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and was composed from two images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is slightly larger than 3.5. N66 with the open star cluster NGC346 is the largest of the star-forming regions seen below the centre of the SMC.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0514c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0514c
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.6 C.5.2.2
- Subject Name
- Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble )
- Release Date
- 2005-11-10T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0514c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 14.9156832237, -72.5811750056
- Reference Dimension
- 13096.0, 13616.0
- Reference Pixel
- 6548.0, 6808.0
- Scale
- -0.000283074202889, 0.000283074202889
- Rotation
- -181.79999999999978
- 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
- heic0514c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0514c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-01-24T15:14:06+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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