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NGC 6884

Esahubble_opo9738c8_1024

esahubble_opo9738c8 December 17th, 1997

Credit: Howard Bond (ST ScI) and NASA/ESA

This image is a part of the Hubble Gallery of Planetary Nebulae.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9738c8/

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: IRAS 20088+4618 • NGC 6884
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Type > Planetary

Esahubble_opo9738c8_128

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 20h 10m 23.7s; DEC = 46° 27’ 39.5”
Orientation: North is 140.4° CW
Field of View: 0.3 x 0.3 arcminutes
Constellation: Cygnus

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (I)	814.0 nm
	Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (V)	555.0 nm

Spectrum_base

Red

Green

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ID: opo9738c8
Subject Category: B.4.1.3
Subject Name: IRAS 20088+4618, NGC 6884
Credits: Howard Bond (ST ScI) and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1997-12-17T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9738c8/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from: iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/123/5/2666/pdf/201551.web.pdf

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment: Red, Green

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, V
Central Wavelength: 814, 555

Start Time
Integration Time: 350, 260
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 302.598707355, 46.4609655649
Reference Dimension: 390.0, 400.0

Reference Pixel: 195.0, 200.0
Scale: -1.10552879446e-05, 1.10552879446e-05
Rotation: -140.43999999999991
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: opo9738c8

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9738c8.tif
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:40:55.386486
Metadata Version: 1.1

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