Wide-field image of irregular galaxy Holmberg II (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic1114b September 29th, 2011

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)

This image from a ground-based telescope shows a wide view around galaxy Holmberg II. Holmberg II is dominated by huge glowing bubbles of gas which are sites of ongoing star formation.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1114b/

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: Holmberg II
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Irregular; Galaxy > Size > Dwarf

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 8h 19m 11.6s; DEC = 70° 43’ 32.2”
Orientation: North is 4.9° CCW
Field of View: 2.9 x 2.5 degrees
Constellation: Ursa Major

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS (None)	Optical (B)	-
DSS (None)	Optical (Pseudogreen (B+R))	-
DSS (None)	Optical (R)	-

ID: heic1114b
Subject Category: C.5.1.6 C.5.2.2
Subject Name: Holmberg II
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)

Release Date: 2011-09-29T14:30:00
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Redshift
Reference Url: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1114b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from NED

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

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: B, Pseudogreen (B+R), R
Central Wavelength

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 124.798422863, 70.7256228501
Reference Dimension: 10328.0, 9035.0

Reference Pixel: 5164.0, 4517.5
Scale: -0.000280197214209, 0.000280197214209
Rotation: 4.9000000000000092
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: heic1114b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1114b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2011-08-23T15:41:21+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.