NGC 6397
esahubble_opo9441c October 17th, 1994
Credit: F. Paresce, ST ScI & ESA and NASA
A ground-based sky survey photograph of the globular cluster NGC 6397, one of the nearest and densest agglomerations of stars to Earth. The cluster is located 7, 200 light-years away in the southern constellation Ara, and is one of 150 such objects which orbit our Milky Way Galaxy.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9441c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9441c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 6397
- Credits
- F. Paresce, ST ScI & ESA and NASA
- Release Date
- 1994-10-17T05:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9441c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- I
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 265.173395423, -53.6735840083
- Reference Dimension
- 600.0, 600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 300.0, 300.0
- Scale
- -0.000314801442989, 0.000314801442989
- Rotation
- 0.32000000000000006
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- 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
- opo9441c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9441c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:42:25+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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