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DSS COSMOS field (ground-based image)

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esahubble_heic0701j January 7th, 2007

Credit: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble), the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator & Digitized Sky Survey 2

This image shows the COSMOS field and is a colour composite made from Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2) exposure. The field of view is 3.3x3.3 degrees.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0701j/

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: COSMOS
Subject - Distant Universe: Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 10h 0m 41.2s; DEC = 2° 12’ 19.6”
Orientation: North is up
Field of View: 3.4 x 3.4 degrees
Constellation: Sextans

Color Mapping

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

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ID: heic0701j
Subject Category: D.6.1.1
Subject Name: COSMOS
Credits: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble), the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator & Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: 2007-01-07T19:30:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0701j/

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: 150.1717295, 2.20544866165
Reference Dimension: 12000.0, 12000.0

Reference Pixel: 6000.0, 6000.0
Scale: -0.000280072786675, 0.000280072786675
Rotation: 0.040000000000000008
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: heic0701j

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0701j.tif
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Metadata Date: 2006-12-21T09:39:34+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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