Small region of ACS field reveals faint white dwarfs

esahubble_opo0825d July 10th, 2008

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

A blow up of view of a small region of the Advanced Camera for Surveys field reveals very faint white dwarfs. The hotter dwarfs are 4 billion years old and the cooler dwarfs that are 6 billion years old.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0825d/

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 57.6s; DEC = 37° 45’ 55.0”
Orientation: North is 5.7° CCW
Field of View: 0.6 x 0.4 arcminutes
Constellation: Lyra

Color Mapping

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

ID: opo0825d
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/opo0825d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

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

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 290.24001238, 37.765281524
Reference Dimension: 1434.0, 926.0

Reference Pixel: 717.965006729, 463.613245033
Scale: -6.94701750764e-06, 6.94701750764e-06
Rotation: 5.7000000000000552
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 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: opo0825d

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0825d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:41:03.657470
Metadata Version: 1.1

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