Digitized Sky Survey Image of Star Field Around M83 (ground-based image)

esahubble_opo0929e January 9th, 2014

Credit: Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech and UKSTU/AAO

This is a Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) image of the field around M83. This image was used in a zoom animation highlighting the M83 Hubble release image.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0929e/

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: Messier 83
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Spiral; Galaxy > Type > Barred

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 13h 36m 55.6s; DEC = -29° 42’ 23.9”
Orientation: North is 1.2° CCW
Field of View: 2.3 x 1.9 degrees
Constellation: Hydra

Color Mapping

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

ID: opo0929e
Subject Category: C.5.1.1 C.5.1.2
Subject Name: Messier 83
Credits: Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech and UKSTU/AAO

Release Date: 2014-01-09T16:20:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0929e/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: DSS, DSS
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Red, Blue

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: R, B
Central Wavelength

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 204.231699728, -29.7066307623
Reference Dimension: 8103.0, 6756.0

Reference Pixel: 4059.42082111, 3384.59121951
Scale: -0.000280044610194, 0.000280044610194
Rotation: 1.1999999999999984
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

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

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo0929e

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0929e.tif
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Metadata Date: 2009-11-05T17:05:26+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.