Wide-field view of the region around NGC 2623 (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic0912b October 13th, 2009

Credit: NASA, ESA and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

A wide-field image of the region around NGC 2623 constructed from Digitized Sky Survey 2 images. The field of view is approximately 3.0 degrees x 3.0 degrees.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0912b/

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: NGC 2623
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Interacting

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 8h 38m 25.1s; DEC = 25° 45’ 29.1”
Orientation: North is 0.9° CW
Field of View: 3.0 x 2.9 degrees
Constellation: Cancer

Color Mapping

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

ID: heic0912b
Subject Category: C.5.1.7
Subject Name: NGC 2623
Credits: NASA, ESA and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Release Date: 2009-10-13T10:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0912b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from NED

Facility: DSS, DSS
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Red, Blue

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: 129.604496301, 25.7580709362
Reference Dimension: 10682.0, 10523.0

Reference Pixel: 5341.0, 5261.5
Scale: -0.000279700769021, 0.000279700769021
Rotation: -0.87999999999999989
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: heic0912b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0912b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2009-10-05T18:23:22+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.