The SDSS view on iPTF16geu
esahubble_heic1710e April 20th, 2017
Credit: ESA/Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Astronomers used the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), carried out by a 2.5-metre wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, USA, to look for supernovae. The explosion named iPTF16geu can be seen left of the centre of the image as a tiny red dot.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1710e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1710e
- Subject Category
- D.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- iPTF16geu
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Release Date
- 2017-04-20T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1710e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 316.107842337, -6.2910276579
- Reference Dimension
- 1971.0, 1478.0
- Reference Pixel
- 985.5, 739.0
- Scale
- -0.000109972315323, 0.000109972315323
- Rotation
- -97.499999999999886
- 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
- heic1710e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1710e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-04-10T14:37:39+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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