Wide-field view of Messier 66 (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic1006b April 8th, 2010

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

This wide-field image of the sky around the spiral galaxy Messier 66 was created from photographs forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Located about 35 million light-years away from Earth, this galaxy is about 100 000 light-years across. The field of view is approximately 3.0 by 2.2 degrees across.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1006b/

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: Messier 66
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 11h 20m 16.8s; DEC = 12° 59’ 21.7”
Orientation: North is 8.1° CCW
Field of View: 3.1 x 2.2 degrees
Constellation: Leo

Color Mapping

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

ID: heic1006b
Subject Category: C.5.1.1
Subject Name: Messier 66
Credits: NASA, ESA and and Digitized Sky Survey 2 . Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Release Date: 2010-04-08T16:00:00
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Reference Url: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1006b/

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
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 170.069809308, 12.9893644393
Reference Dimension: 10972.0, 7753.0

Reference Pixel: 5486.0, 3876.5
Scale: -0.000280051736623, 0.000280051736623
Rotation: 8.0999999999999943
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: heic1006b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1006b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2010-03-24T14:51:28+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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