Excerpt of the COSMOS survey in full resolution

Esahubble_heic0701i_1024

esahubble_heic0701i January 7th, 2007

Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Koekemoer (STScI)

This image shows an excerpt of the COSMOS survey in full resolution. COSMOS - the Cosmic Evolution Survey - is the Hubble Space Telescope's largest ever survey of the Universe and was carried out by an international team of 70 astronomers. In making the COSMOS survey, Hubble photographed 575 adjacent and slightly overlapping views of the universe using the Advanced Camera for Surveys' (ACS) Wide Field Camera onboard Hubble. It took nearly 1,000 hours of observations. The distances to the galaxies were determined from their spectral redshifts, using ESO's Very Large Telescope, the Subaru and CFHT telescopes in Hawaii and the Magellan telescope in Chile. The full COSMOS image in full resolution would be 100,800 x 100,800 pixels. The image was taken in hear-infrared light (Hubble's F814W, or I-band, filter).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0701i/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
COSMOS
Subject - Distant Universe
Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field
Esahubble_heic0701i_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 10h 1m 13.2s
DEC = 2° 17’ 25.6”
Orientation
North is up
Field of View
3.4 x 3.4 arcminutes
Constellation
Sextans

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale Hubble (ACS) Infrared (I) 814.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Grayscale
Esahubble_heic0701i_1280
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ID
heic0701i
Subject Category
D.6.1.1  
Subject Name
COSMOS
Credits
NASA, ESA and A. Koekemoer (STScI)
Release Date
2007-01-07T19:30:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0701i/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
I
Central Wavelength
814
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
150.305080894, 2.29044235343
Reference Dimension
4000.0, 4000.0
Reference Pixel
2000.0, 2000.0
Scale
-1.41812100814e-05, 1.41812100814e-05
Rotation
-0
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
heic0701i
Metadata Date
2019-08-22T06:47:42.217930
Metadata Version
1.1
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