NGC 1672 in Dorado (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0706b April 3rd, 2007

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

A 2.7 x 2.9 degree wide field ground-based image of NGC 1672's region in the Southern constellation of Dorado. This image is a colour composite taken by the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0706b/

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: NGC 1672
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral; Galaxy > Type > Barred

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 4h 45m 34.9s; DEC = -59° 17’ 37.8”
Orientation: North is 180.1° CW
Field of View: 2.7 x 2.9 degrees
Constellation: Dorado

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS (None)	Optical (R)	649.0 nm
DSS (None)	Optical (B)	479.0 nm

ID: heic0706b
Subject Category: C.5.1.1 C.5.1.2
Subject Name: NGC 1672
Credits: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble), the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator & Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: 2007-04-03T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0706b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: DSS, DSS
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Orange, Cyan

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: R, B
Central Wavelength: 649, 479

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 71.3955230445, -59.2938466126
Reference Dimension: 9793.0, 10365.0

Reference Pixel: 4896.5, 5182.5
Scale: -0.000280463438593, 0.000280463438593
Rotation: -180.10000000000019
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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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: heic0706b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0706b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2007-03-29T17:06:51+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.