Starburst Galaxy NGC 1808
esahubble_opo9812c March 22nd, 1998
Credit: Jim Flood, an amateur astronomer affiliated with Sperry Observatory at Union College in New Jersey, and Max Mutchler, a member of the Space Telescope Science Institute staff who volunteered to work with Jim
This image, taken with the Hubble telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2), provides a close-up view of the galaxy's center, the hotbed of vigorous star formation.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9812c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9812c
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.3
- Subject Name
- IRAS 05059-3734, NGC 1808
- Credits
- Jim Flood, an amateur astronomer affiliated with Sperry Observatory at Union College in New Jersey, and Max Mutchler, a member of the Space Telescope Science Institute staff who volunteered to work with Jim
- Release Date
- 1998-03-22T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9812c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, R
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 675, 658
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- 280, 240, 1400
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 76.9325763, -37.5109658
- Reference Dimension
- 1480.0, 1510.0
- Reference Pixel
- 741.0, 756.0
- Scale
- 2.75021174151e-05, 2.77555354946e-05
- Rotation
- -19.2
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo9812c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9812c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:50:41+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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