NGC 4163

esahubble_heic0819e September 30th, 2008

Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)

This image shows a swarm of young, blue stars in the diffuse dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4163. It is a member of a group of dwarf galaxies near our Milky Way and is located roughly 10 million light-years away.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0819e/

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 4163
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Irregular; Galaxy > Size > Dwarf

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 12m 9.3s; DEC = 36° 10’ 6.1”
Orientation: North is 61.0° CCW
Field of View: 3.3 x 1.6 arcminutes
Constellation: Canes Venatici

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (ACS)	Infrared (I)	814.0 nm
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (V)	606.0 nm
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (B)	475.0 nm

ID: heic0819e
Subject Category: C.5.1.6 C.5.2.2
Subject Name: NGC 4163
Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)

Release Date: 2008-09-30T16:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0819e/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, V, B
Central Wavelength: 814, 606, 475

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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 183.0386337, 36.168351
Reference Dimension: 3880.0, 1851.0

Reference Pixel: 1941.0, 926.5
Scale: -1.40277e-05, 1.4027708e-05
Rotation: 60.99
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: heic0819e

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0819e.tif
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Metadata Date: 2020-01-16T21:30:27.851749
Metadata Version: 1.1

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