A wide-field view of the region around NGC 4710 (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0914c November 18th, 2009

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

A wide-field image of the region around NGC 4710 constructed from Digitized Sky Survey 2 data. The field of view is approximately 2.8 degrees x 2.9 degrees.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0914c/

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 4710
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral; Galaxy > Component > Bulge

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 49m 40.0s; DEC = 15° 10’ 1.9”
Orientation: North is 0.2° CW
Field of View: 2.8 x 2.9 degrees
Constellation: Coma Berenices

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS (None)	Optical (I)	825.0 nm
DSS (None)	Optical (B)	479.0 nm

ID: heic0914c
Subject Category: C.5.1.1 C.5.4.1
Subject Name: NGC 4710
Credits: NASA, ESA and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Release Date: 2009-11-18T12:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0914c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: DSS, DSS
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Orange, Cyan

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, B
Central Wavelength: 825, 479

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 192.416559524, 15.1671964302
Reference Dimension: 9961.0, 10438.0

Reference Pixel: 4980.5, 5219.0
Scale: -0.000279887602017, 0.000279887602017
Rotation: -0.23999999999999996
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: heic0914c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0914c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2009-11-11T18:34:14+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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