Digitized Sky Survey Image of NGC 4402 (ground-based image)

Esahubble_heic0911f_1024

esahubble_heic0911f 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 4402 constructed from the images in the Digitized Sky Survey. The field-of-view is approximately 4.2 degrees x 4.2 degrees.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0911f/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 4402
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
Esahubble_heic0911f_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 12h 30m 53.4s
DEC = 12° 29’ 0.8”
Orientation
North is 0.9° CCW
Field of View
6.4 x 6.4 degrees
Constellation
Virgo

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Orange DSS (None) Infrared (I) 797.5 nm
Cyan DSS (None) Optical (B) 467.5 nm
Spectrum_base
Orange
Cyan
Esahubble_heic0911f_1280
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ID
heic0911f
Subject Category
C.5.1.1  
Subject Name
NGC 4402
Credits
NASA, ESA and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
Release Date
2009-09-30T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0911f/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
DSS, DSS
Instrument
None, None
Color Assignment
Orange, Cyan
Band
Infrared, Optical
Bandpass
I, B
Central Wavelength
797.5, 467.5
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
187.722420055, 12.4835606899
Reference Dimension
15205.0, 15139.0
Reference Pixel
7602.5, 7569.5
Scale
-0.000419472788098, 0.000419472788098
Rotation
0.92000000000000037
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
heic0911f
Metadata Date
2009-09-22T19:14:41+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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