Serpens Nebula, seen by HAWK-I
esahubble_heic1819b October 31st, 2018
Credit: ESO
This image shows the Serpens Nebula as seen by the HAWK-I instrument installed on the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory. The filters used by HAWK-I to create this image cover wavelengths similar to the filters used by Hubble.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1819b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1819b
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.2
- Subject Name
- Serpens nebula
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2018-10-31T18:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1819b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Simbad, calculated.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT)
- Instrument
- HAWK-I, HAWK-I, HAWK-I
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- J, H, K
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 277.490456143, 1.23367682903
- Reference Dimension
- 1985.0, 1911.0
- Reference Pixel
- 992.0, 955.0
- Scale
- -2.96270119588e-05, 2.96270119588e-05
- Rotation
- 0.29999999999999827
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1819b
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1819b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-04-08T20:44:23.554078
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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