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Wide-field image of NGC 4696 (ground-based image)

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esahubble_heic1621b December 1st, 2016

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

This ground-based image shows the galaxy NGC 4696 and its surroundings.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1621b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei M√ºnchen, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: NGC 4696
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Elliptical

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 48m 50.5s; DEC = -41° 18’ 38.9”
Orientation: North is 2.2° CCW
Field of View: 3.0 x 2.8 degrees
Constellation: Centaurus

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	DSS2 (None)	Optical (B)	-
	DSS2 (None)	Optical (B+R)	-
	DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	-

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ID: heic1621b
Subject Category: C.5.1.4
Subject Name: NGC 4696
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2016-12-01T16:00:00
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Redshift
Reference Url: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1621b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument: None, None, None
Color Assignment: Blue, Green, Red

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: B, B+R, R
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 192.210425251, -41.3108122919
Reference Dimension: 10687.0, 10032.0

Reference Pixel: 5343.0, 5016.0
Scale: -0.000279761314177, 0.000279761314177
Rotation: 2.16
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org
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Email

Telephone
Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei M√ºnchen
State/Province

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

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: heic1621b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1621b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2010-08-09T18:17:54+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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