Galaxy cluster Abell 520's luminosity (CFHT)

esahubble_opo1210e March 23rd, 2012

Credit: NASA, ESA, CFHT, M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis), and A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State University)

This image shows the concentration of starlight at the core of merging galaxy cluster Abell 520. The map was derived from observations by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii. Abell 520 resides 2.4 billion light-years away.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1210e/

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

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Abell 520
Subject - Distant Universe: Star > Grouping > Cluster

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 4h 54m 10.5s; DEC = 2° 54’ 53.4”
Orientation: North is 57.3° CCW
Field of View: 8.5 x 5.4 arcminutes
Constellation: Orion

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	CFHT (Other)	Optical (None)	-

ID: opo1210e
Subject Category: D.3.6.4
Subject Name: Abell 520
Credits: NASA, ESA, CFHT, M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis), and A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State University)

Release Date: 2012-03-23T16:48:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1210e/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
Instrument: Other
Color Assignment: Orange

Band: Optical
Bandpass: None
Central Wavelength

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 73.5435494284, 2.91483260254
Reference Dimension: 2734.0, 1758.0

Reference Pixel: 1367.0, 879.0
Scale: -5.1609657969e-05, 5.1609657969e-05
Rotation: 57.299999999999912
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: opo1210e

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo1210e.tif
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:41:51.751738
Metadata Version: 1.1

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