Wide field view of Abell 383 (ground-based image)
esahubble_heic1106d April 12th, 2011
Credit: ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
This ground-based view shows the area of sky around the lensing cluster Abell 383. Lensing clusters are clusters of elliptical galaxies whose gravity is so strong that they distort and magnify the light from faraway galaxies behind them. This can be a useful tool for astronomers when they want to observe galaxies that are very distant and very faint, as the distortion from the lens is compensated by the greatly increased brightness.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1106d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1106d
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.8 D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell 383
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2011-04-12T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1106d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 42.0296358935, -3.49158245226
- Reference Dimension
- 10665.0, 10692.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5332.5, 5346.0
- Scale
- -0.000279864322118, 0.000279864322118
- Rotation
- 0.06
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- 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
- heic1106d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1106d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-03-30T13:34:14+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
