Wide-field image of the Virgo constellation (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0805h February 12th, 2008

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

An image of the region of sky around Abell 1689 in the constellation of Virgo, from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field-of-view is approximately 2.9 x 2.7 degrees.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0805h/

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: A1689-zD1 • Abell 1689
Subject - Distant Universe: Galaxy > Type > Gravitationally Lensed; Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 13h 11m 33.9s; DEC = -1° 21’ 57.4”
Orientation: North is up
Field of View: 2.7 x 2.9 degrees
Constellation: Virgo

Color Mapping

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

ID: heic0805h
Subject Category: D.5.1.8 D.5.5.3
Subject Name: A1689-zD1, Abell 1689
Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Release Date: 2008-02-12T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0805h/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

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

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 197.891227661, -1.36593569475
Reference Dimension: 9797.0, 10471.0

Reference Pixel: 4898.5, 5235.5
Scale: -0.000280082923237, 0.000280082923237
Rotation: -0.020000000000000007
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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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: heic0805h

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0805h.tif
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Metadata Date: 2008-02-11T11:35:28+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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