Pluto and Charon

Esahubble_opo9417a_1024

esahubble_opo9417a May 16th, 1994

Credit: Dr. R. Albrecht, ESA/ESO Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility; NASA

This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, as revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The image was taken by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) on February 21, 1994 when the planet was 2.6 billion miles (4.4 billion kilometers) from Earth; or nearly 30 times the separation between Earth and the sun.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9417a/

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
Charon Pluto
Subject - Solar System
Planet > Satellite
Interplanetary Body > Dwarf planet

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (FOC) -
Esahubble_opo9417a_1280
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ID
opo9417a
Subject Category
A.1.4   A.2.1  
Subject Name
Charon, Pluto
Credits
Dr. R. Albrecht, ESA/ESO Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility; NASA
Release Date
1994-05-16T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9417a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
FOC
Color Assignment
Red
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
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
opo9417a
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:41:22+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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