Full WFPC2 Field NGC 4603
esahubble_opo9919b May 25th, 1999
Credit: NASA & ESA
NGC 4603 is a spiral galaxy which can be found in the constellation Centaurus, more than 100 million light years away. In 1999 the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was studying this galaxy in search for Cepheid variable stars to measure their periodicity. Using the periodicity of the identified 40 Cepheids an accurate distance of the galaxy could be calculated. In 2008 the galaxy became again in the focus of the astronomical society as a high luminosity supernova exploded in it.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9919b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9919b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 4603
- Credits
- NASA & ESA
- Release Date
- 1999-05-25T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9919b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale, Grayscale
- Band
- Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 555
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 190.236006411, -40.9665438137
- Reference Dimension
- 1501.0, 1492.0
- Reference Pixel
- 750.5, 746.0
- Scale
- -2.73829146797e-05, 2.73829146797e-05
- Rotation
- -143.37999999999997
- 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
- opo9919b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9919b.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:41:11.749186
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
