HDF-S area in the sky

Esahubble_opo9841n_1024

esahubble_opo9841n November 23rd, 1998

Credit: J. Gardner (NOAO/GSFC), Cerro Tololo Inter- American Observatory.

After the great success of the origninal Hubble Deep Field, later called Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N), an identical project for the southern hemisphere, the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S), was done over ten days in September 1998. With similar exposure times as in the HDF-N the HDF-S was created of a composite of several hundred individual images taken using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The goal of this deep sky optical image was the observation of the distant universe and extremly distant galaxies in early stages of their evolution. In addition astronomers could study the cosmological principle states that at the largest scales, the universe is homogeneous and isotropic, meaning that it should look the same in any direction. A similar distribution and amount of different kinds of objects was indeed found in the HDF-S as in the HDF-N. The image presented here shows not only the area of the HDF-S but also its surrounding.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/opo9841n/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
HDF-S
Subject - Distant Universe
Cosmology
Esahubble_opo9841n_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 22h 33m 37.8s
DEC = -60° 34’ 11.0”
Orientation
North is 0.1° CW
Field of View
46.1 x 44.2 arcminutes
Constellation
Tucana

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale CTIO (None) Optical (None) -
Esahubble_opo9841n_1280
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ID
opo9841n
Subject Category
D.6  
Subject Name
HDF-S
Credits
J. Gardner (NOAO/GSFC), Cerro Tololo Inter- American Observatory.
Release Date
1998-11-23T21:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://esahubble.org/images/opo9841n/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
CTIO
Instrument
None
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Optical
Bandpass
None
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
None
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
338.407626353, -60.569712781
Reference Dimension
900.0, 862.0
Reference Pixel
450.0, 431.0
Scale
-0.00085391221137, 0.00085391221137
Rotation
-0.079999999999999988
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
https://esahubble.org
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
City
Baltimore
State/Province
MD
Postal Code
21218
Country
United States
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9841n
Metadata Date
2023-11-25T02:01:26.231993
Metadata Version
1.1
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