Wide-field image of the area around the Meathook galaxy (ground-based image)
esahubble_heic1108c May 4th, 2011
Credit: ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
This wide-field view from the Digitized Sky Survey shows the neighbourhood of the Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442). A closer, more detailed view of the galaxy can be seen in an image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, and Hubble has made a close-up observation of one of the galaxys spiral arms.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1108c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1108c
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 2442
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2011-05-04T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1108c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 114.077225234, -69.5196919985
- Reference Dimension
- 10632.0, 10651.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5316.0, 5325.5
- Scale
- -0.000280183343335, 0.000280183343335
- Rotation
- -2.7800000000000011
- 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
- heic1108c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1108c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-02-25T15:46:27+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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