Wide-field view of NGC 7049 (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0905b April 7th, 2009

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

A wide-field image of the region around NGC 7049 constructed from the images in the Digitized Sky Survey. The field-of-view is approximately 4.1 degrees x 3.1 degrees.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0905b/

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 7049
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral; Galaxy > Type > Elliptical

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 21h 19m 1.7s; DEC = -48° 34’ 7.6”
Orientation: North is 2.5° CW
Field of View: 4.2 x 3.2 degrees
Constellation: Indus

Color Mapping

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

ID: heic0905b
Subject Category: C.5.1.1 C.5.1.4
Subject Name: NGC 7049
Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Release Date: 2009-04-07T10:30:00
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Reference Url: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0905b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

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

Start Time
Integration Time
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 319.757248401, -48.5687642408
Reference Dimension: 14765.0, 11140.0

Reference Pixel: 7382.5, 5570.0
Scale: -0.000283423726677, 0.000283423726677
Rotation: -2.4800000000000009
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
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: heic0905b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0905b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2009-04-06T15:02:30+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.