VCC 1993 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies

esahubble_heic0815e August 5th, 2008

Credit: ESA, NASA and E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing)

Virgo cluster galaxy VCC 1993. Hubble's "eye" is so sharp that it was able to pick out the fuzzy globular clusters, which, at that distance, look like individual stars bunched up around the galaxies, instead of groupings of stars.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0815e/

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: VCC 1993
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Elliptical

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 44m 12.2s; DEC = 12° 56’ 30.0”
Orientation: North is 77.5° CCW
Field of View: 1.7 x 1.7 arcminutes
Constellation: Virgo

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (ACS)	Infrared (I)	814.0 nm
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (B)	475.0 nm

ID: heic0815e
Subject Category: C.5.1.4
Subject Name: VCC 1993
Credits: ESA, NASA and E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing)

Release Date: 2008-08-05T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0815e/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from NED

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: ACS, ACS
Color Assignment: Yellow, Blue

Band: Infrared, Optical
Bandpass: I, B
Central Wavelength: 814, 475

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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 191.050688, 12.9416581
Reference Dimension: 2000.0, 2000.0

Reference Pixel: 1001.0, 1001.0
Scale: -1.38053e-05, 1.3805297e-05
Rotation: 77.54
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: heic0815e

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0815e.tif
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:41:03.402155
Metadata Version: 1.1

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