Banking X-ray Data for the Future
chandra_610f October 8th, 2015
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/S.Johnson et al, Optical: NASA/STScI & Palomar Observatory 5-m Hale Telescope
These six images represent the potential for new images and discoveries housed in the Chandra Data Archive. To celebrate October as American Archive Month, these images - which include supernova remnants, pulsars, black holes, and clusters of galaxies - are being released. Each image represents data that are available to both the professional scientific community as well as the general public.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/archives/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 610f
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.9.1
- Subject Name
- Guitar Nebula
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/S.Johnson et al, Optical: NASA/STScI & Palomar Observatory 5-m Hale Telescope
- Release Date
- 2015-10-08
- Lightyears
- 4,900
- Redshift
- 4,900
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/archives/
- Type
- Collage
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, Hubble, Palomar
- Instrument
- ACIS, WFPC2, -
- Color Assignment
- Magenta, Blue, Blue
- Band
- X-ray, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- X-ray, H-alpha, -
- Central Wavelength
- 0.8267, 656, -
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 336.4293482, 65.5946166
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 2838.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1420.0
- Scale
- 1.53839e-05, 1.5383943e-05
- Rotation
- 0.00
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- archives_gneb.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/archives/archives_gneb.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-10-09T11:09:31-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
