Digitized Sky Survey Image of NGC 4522 (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0911d September 30th, 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 4522 constructed from the images in the Digitized Sky Survey. The field-of-view is approximately 2.4 degrees x 1.9 degrees.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0911d/

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 4522
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral; Galaxy > Type > Barred

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 33m 40.0s; DEC = 9° 10’ 13.8”
Orientation: North is 89.6° CW
Field of View: 2.4 x 1.9 degrees
Constellation: Virgo

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS (None)	Optical (B)	-
DSS (None)	Infrared (I)	-

ID: heic0911d
Subject Category: C.5.1.1 C.5.1.2
Subject Name: NGC 4522
Credits: NASA, ESA and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Release Date: 2009-09-30T15:00:00
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Redshift
Reference Url: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0911d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

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

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 188.416594332, 9.17050538494
Reference Dimension: 8745.0, 6929.0

Reference Pixel: 4372.5, 3464.5
Scale: -0.000279537425262, 0.000279537425262
Rotation: -89.599999999999966
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: heic0911d

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0911d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2009-09-25T18:16:43+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.