The region around Cassiopeia A (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0609b August 29th, 2006

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

The two-colour image shows an overview of area of Cas A and was composed from two images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is slightly less than 3 degrees.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0609b/

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: Cassiopeia A • SN 1680
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Type > Supernova Remnant

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 23h 23m 10.3s; DEC = 58° 50’ 10.4”
Orientation: North is 1.0° CCW
Field of View: 2.7 x 2.7 degrees
Constellation: Cassiopeia

Color Mapping

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

ID: heic0609b
Subject Category: B.4.1.4
Subject Name: Cassiopeia A, SN 1680
Credits: ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgements: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2006-08-29T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0609b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

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

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 350.792911781, 58.8362193072
Reference Dimension: 9796.0, 9800.0

Reference Pixel: 4898.0, 4900.0
Scale: -0.000280101152736, 0.000280101152736
Rotation: 1.0200000000000002
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: heic0609b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0609b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2006-07-05T10:41:09+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

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