Wide-field view of Betelgeuse (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic2014c August 13th, 2020

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.

This image is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). It shows the area around the red supergiant star Betelgeuse.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic2014c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Betelgeuse
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Evolutionary Stage > Red Supergiant

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 5h 55m 10.5s; DEC = 7° 24’ 22.3”
Orientation: North is 0.1° CCW
Field of View: 2.0 x 1.5 degrees
Constellation: Orion

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	649.0 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (B)	479.0 nm

ID: heic2014c
Subject Category: B.3.1.5
Subject Name: Betelgeuse
Credits: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.

Release Date: 2020-08-13T17:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic2014c/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Orange, Cyan

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: R, B
Central Wavelength: 649, 479

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 88.793607505, 7.40620699108
Reference Dimension: 7106.0, 5332.0

Reference Pixel: 3553.0, 2666.0
Scale: -0.000280421449847, 0.000280421449847
Rotation: 0.060000000000000026
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: None

Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: heic2014c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic2014c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2010-07-26T15:50:27+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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There is no distance meta data in this image.