City of Stars - 47 Tucanae (Ground-Based Image)
esahubble_opo0033c October 31st, 2000
Credit: David Malin (Anglo-Australian Observatory).
The picture at left, taken by a terrestrial telescope, shows most of the cluster, a tightly packed group of middle-aged stars held together by mutual gravitational attraction. The box near the center represents a Hubble Space Telescope segment, which shows approximately 35, 000 stars.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0033c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0033c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- 47 Tucanae, NGC 104
- Credits
- David Malin (Anglo-Australian Observatory).
- Release Date
- 2000-10-31T07:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0033c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- T
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 5.95940995717, -72.1035586412
- Reference Dimension
- 800.0, 623.0
- Reference Pixel
- 400.0, 312.0
- Scale
- -0.000981430613837, 0.000981430613837
- Rotation
- 0.42038598125380783
- 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
- opo0033c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0033c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:16:57+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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