Wide-field view of NGC 4993 (ground-based view)

esahubble_heic1717d October 16th, 2017

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

This image shows the sky around the lenticular galaxy NGC 4993. Within this galaxy Hubble discovered the first visual counterpart of a gravitational wave event the merger of two neutron stars.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1717d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: NGC 4993
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Elliptical

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 13h 9m 47.3s; DEC = -23° 22’ 51.2”
Orientation: North is 0.5° CW
Field of View: 2.7 x 1.8 degrees
Constellation: Hydra

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (None)	Optical (I)	797.5 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (I)	797.5 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	630.0 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	630.0 nm

ID: heic1717d
Subject Category: C.5.1.4
Subject Name: NGC 4993
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2017-10-16T16:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1717d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

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

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, I, R, R
Central Wavelength: 797.5, 797.5, 630, 630

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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 197.447254072, -23.3808836092
Reference Dimension: 9696.0, 6221.0

Reference Pixel: 4848.0, 3110.5
Scale: -0.00028356133051, 0.00028356133051
Rotation: -0.46000000000000008
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Notes

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

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: heic1717d

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1717d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2017-10-04T17:16:01+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

There is no distance meta data in this image.