Digitized Sky Survey I

esahubble_opo0118b June 4th, 2001

Credit: NASA/ESA, the DSS-II and GSC-II Consortia (with images from the 'Palomar Observatory-STScI Digital Sky Survey of the northern sky, based on scans of the Second Palomar Sky Survey are copyright ) 1993-1999 by the California Institute of Technology)

This is the Digitized Sky Survey I (DSS-I) view of the Rosette Nebula.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0118b/

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: NGC 2237 • Rosette Nebula
Subject - General: Nebula

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 6h 31m 40.0s; DEC = 4° 57’ 49.5”
Orientation: North is 0.2° CW
Field of View: 29.9 x 29.9 arcminutes
Constellation: Monoceros

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	DSS (None)	Optical (R)	-

ID: opo0118b
Subject Category: E.4
Subject Name: NGC 2237, Rosette Nebula
Credits: NASA/ESA, the DSS-II and GSC-II Consortia (with images from the 'Palomar Observatory-STScI Digital Sky Survey of the northern sky, based on scans of the Second Palomar Sky Survey are copyright ) 1993-1999 by the California Institute of Technology)

Release Date: 2001-06-04T18:30:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0118b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: DSS
Instrument: None
Color Assignment: Grayscale

Band: Optical
Bandpass: R
Central Wavelength

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 97.9165075, 4.9637464
Reference Dimension: 1775.0, 1775.0

Reference Pixel: 888.5, 888.5
Scale: 0.00028061114574, 0.000280419217019
Rotation: -0.21
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes: WCS info from NASA/Hubble

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: opo0118b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0118b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:18:00+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

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