NGC 300 Detail 3

esahubble_heic0819h September 30th, 2008

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

Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows individual stars and clusters of stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 300, located approximately 7 million light-years away from Earth.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0819h/

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 300
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 0h 54m 26.0s; DEC = -37° 39’ 20.1”
Orientation: North is 29.9° CW
Field of View: 0.8 x 1.6 arcminutes
Constellation: Sculptor

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: heic0819h
Subject Category: C.5.1.1
Subject Name: NGC 300
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/heic0819h/

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: 13.6085035849, -37.6555811992
Reference Dimension: 1253.0, 2532.0

Reference Pixel: 626.5, 1266.0
Scale: -1.03803620529e-05, 1.03803620529e-05
Rotation: -29.89999999999997
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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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: heic0819h

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0819h.tif
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Metadata Date: 2008-09-25T16:14:01-04:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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