Stephan's Quintet [NOAO] (ground-based image)

esahubble_opo0122f July 19th, 2001

Credit: NASA & ESA

Studying the star clusters and dwarf galaxies in Stephan's Quintet provides insights into how galactic encounters may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe. The quintet resides 270 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0122f/

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: Stephan's Quintet
Subject - Distant Universe: Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 22h 35m 59.3s; DEC = 33° 57’ 38.2”
Orientation: North is 2.0° CCW
Field of View: 4.2 x 4.2 arcminutes
Constellation: Pegasus

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2)	Infrared (I)	814.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (V)	569.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (B)	450.0 nm

ID: opo0122f
Subject Category: D.5.5.3
Subject Name: Stephan's Quintet
Credits: NASA & ESA

Release Date: 2001-07-19T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0122f/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, V, B
Central Wavelength: 814, 569, 450

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 338.996951589, 33.960620976
Reference Dimension: 556.0, 549.0

Reference Pixel: 278.0, 274.5
Scale: -0.000126131190964, 0.000126131190964
Rotation: 1.96
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Telephone
Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo0122f

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0122f.jpg
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:41:28.096918
Metadata Version: 1.1

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