Ground-based view of the area around star-forming region S 106

esahubble_heic1118c December 15th, 2011

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

This image shows a ground-based telescope image of the region around star forming region Sh 2-106, or S106 for short. S106 is a compact star-forming region in the constellation of Cygnus (the Swan).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1118c/

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: Sh 2-106
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Type > Star Formation

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 20h 27m 26.5s; DEC = 37° 52’ 34.5”
Orientation: North is 90.0° CW
Field of View: 4.0 x 2.8 degrees
Constellation: Cygnus

Color Mapping

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

ID: heic1118c
Subject Category: B.4.1.2
Subject Name: Sh 2-106
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)

Release Date: 2011-12-15T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1118c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/138/1/35/53768.text.html

Facility: DSS, DSS, DSS, DSS
Instrument: None, None, None, None
Color Assignment: Red, Orange, Pseudocolor, Blue

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R, B+R, B
Central Wavelength

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 306.860465691, 37.8762613729
Reference Dimension: 14149.0, 9977.0

Reference Pixel: 7074.5, 4988.5
Scale: -0.000279832748201, 0.000279832748201
Rotation: -90.040000000000049
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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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: heic1118c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1118c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2011-11-09T17:21:22+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

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