Small Magellanic Cloud (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0603d April 18th, 2006

Credit: ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin

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.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0603d/

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: NGC 292 • Small Magellanic Cloud • SMC
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Size > Dwarf

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 0h 59m 39.8s; DEC = -72° 34’ 51.9”
Orientation: North is 178.2° CCW
Field of View: 3.7 x 3.9 degrees
Constellation: Tucana

Color Mapping

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

ID: heic0603d
Subject Category: C.5.2.2
Subject Name: NGC 292, Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC
Credits: ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2006-04-18T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0603d/

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: 14.9156878261, -72.581085135
Reference Dimension: 13096.0, 13616.0

Reference Pixel: 6548.0, 6808.0
Scale: -0.000283288386061, 0.000283288386061
Rotation: 178.1999999999999
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: heic0603d

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0603d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2006-04-03T11:56:46+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.