NGC 6791: full Hubble ACS field

esahubble_opo0825c July 10th, 2008

Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Bedin (STScI)

The full Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys field is full of stars estimated to be 8 billion years old. Two background galaxies can be seen at upper left.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0825c/

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: NGC 6791
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Grouping > Cluster > Open

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 19h 20m 59.4s; DEC = 37° 46’ 22.6”
Orientation: North is 5.7° CCW
Field of View: 2.6 x 1.5 arcminutes
Constellation: Lyra

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (ACS)	Infrared (I)	814.0 nm
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (V)	606.0 nm
Hubble (ACS)	Infrared (I)	814.0 nm
Hubble (ACS)	Optical (V)	606.0 nm

ID: opo0825c
Subject Category: B.3.6.4.1
Subject Name: NGC 6791
Credits: NASA, ESA, and L. Bedin (STScI)

Release Date: 2008-07-10T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0825c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
Color Assignment: Orange, Cyan, Orange, Cyan

Band: Infrared, Optical, Infrared, Optical
Bandpass: I, V, I, V
Central Wavelength: 814, 606, 814, 606

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 290.247474881, 37.7729575145
Reference Dimension: 6260.0, 3630.0

Reference Pixel: 3134.21265141, 1817.40397351
Scale: -6.95023586146e-06, 6.95023586146e-06
Rotation: 5.7000000000000295
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
State/Province

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

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo0825c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0825c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:41:03.715484
Metadata Version: 1.1

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