Digitized Sky Survey II

Esahubble_opo0118c_1024

esahubble_opo0118c 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 II (DSS-II) view of the Rosette Nebula.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0118c/

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

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 2237 Rosette Nebula
Subject - General
Nebula
Esahubble_opo0118c_128
 

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
Orange DSS2 (None) Optical (R) 649.0 nm
Blue DSS2 (None) Optical (B) 479.5 nm
Spectrum_base
Orange
Blue
Esahubble_opo0118c_1280
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ID
opo0118c
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
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0118c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument
None, None
Color Assignment
Orange, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical
Bandpass
R, B
Central Wavelength
649, 479.5
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
None, 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
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
opo0118c
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:18:04+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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