Spectacular view of V838 Monocerotis light echo
esahubble_heic0617c October 26th, 2006
Credit: NASA, ESA and H. Bond (STScI )
The light echo around the star V838 Monocerotis as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in September 2006.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0617c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0617c
- Subject Category
- B.3.2.1.5 B.4.2.2.1
- Subject Name
- V838 Mon
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and H. Bond (STScI )
- Release Date
- 2006-10-26T18:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0617c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/135/2/605
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, Pseudogreen (V+I), V
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 106.023209373, -3.84491383207
- Reference Dimension
- 2976.0, 3323.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1488.0, 1661.5
- Scale
- -1.39211915414e-05, 1.39211915414e-05
- Rotation
- 85.899999999999949
- 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
- heic0617c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0617c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-10-25T12:31:55-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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