Hubble captures a "five-star" rated gravitational lens (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0606c May 23rd, 2006

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

This two-colour image shows an overview of region of sky where galaxy cluster SDSS J1004+4112 is located. It is composed from two ground-based images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is slightly less than 3.0.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0606c/

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: SDSS J100434.05+4112
Subject - Distant Universe: Galaxy > Type > Gravitationally Lensed; Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 10h 2m 2.3s; DEC = 41° 7’ 1.3”
Orientation: North is up
Field of View: 2.8 x 2.7 degrees
Constellation: Leo Minor

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS (None)	Infrared (I)	-
DSS (None)	Optical (B)	-

ID: heic0606c
Subject Category: D.5.1.8 D.5.5.3
Subject Name: SDSS J100434.05+4112
Credits: ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2006-05-23T12:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0606c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

Band: Infrared, Optical
Bandpass: I, B
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 150.509419279, 41.1170339883
Reference Dimension: 10147.0, 9746.0

Reference Pixel: 5073.5, 4873.0
Scale: -0.0002799629116, 0.0002799629116
Rotation: -0.039999999999999987
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: heic0606c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0606c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2015-08-23T13:28:02+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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