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Digitized Sky Survey Image around CLASS B1608+656 (ground-based image)

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esahubble_heic1408c April 17th, 2014

Credit: NASA & ESA, Digitised Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

ThisDigitized Sky Survey (DSS) image was taken with a ground based telescope and shows the region surrounding a galaxy clustercalled CLASS B1608+656.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1408c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: CLASS B1608+656
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 16h 9m 13.7s; DEC = 65° 32’ 29.3”
Orientation: North is 0.1° CW
Field of View: 3.0 x 3.0 degrees
Constellation: Draco

Color Mapping

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

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ID: heic1408c
Subject Category: C.5.5.3
Subject Name: CLASS B1608+656
Credits: NASA & ESA, Digitised Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2014-04-17T16:00:00
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Redshift
Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1408c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

Band
Bandpass: -, I, R, B
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 242.307161291, 65.541472
Reference Dimension: 10524.0, 10527.0

Reference Pixel: 5262.5, 5263.5
Scale: -0.000283349657298, 0.000283349657298
Rotation: -0.08
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: None

Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: heic1408c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1408c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2014-04-11T16:06:10+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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