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Wide-field view of galaxy group HCG 16 (ground-based view)

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esahubble_heic1514b June 18th, 2015

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

This image shows a ground-based wide-field view of the region around HCG 16 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1514b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei M√ºnchen, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: HCG 16 • NGC 833 • NGC 835 • NGC 838 • NGC 839
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Interacting; Galaxy > Activity > AGN > Seyfert; Galaxy > Activity > AGN > Liner; Galaxy > Activity > Starburst; Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 2h 9m 32.6s; DEC = -10° 9’ 13.6”
Orientation: North is 0.1° CCW
Field of View: 2.2 x 2.3 degrees
Constellation: Cetus

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	DSS (None)	Optical (B)	-
	DSS (None)	Optical (O)	-

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ID: heic1514b
Subject Category: C.5.1.7 C.5.3.2.2 C.5.3.2.4 C.5.3.3 C.5.5.3
Subject Name: HCG 16, NGC 833, NGC 835, NGC 838, NGC 839
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2015-06-18T15:00:00
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Redshift
Reference Url: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1514b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: NED distance for NGC 835

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

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: B, O
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 32.3859487787, -10.153768803
Reference Dimension: 7983.0, 8304.0

Reference Pixel: 3991.0, 4152.0
Scale: -0.000280012489608, 0.000280012489608
Rotation: 0.079999999999999974
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 M√ºnchen
State/Province

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

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: heic1514b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1514b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2014-06-30T14:57:42+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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