Eta Carinae

esahubble_opo9409a January 14th, 1994

Credit: J. Hester/Arizona state University, NASA/ESA

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9409a/

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: Eta Carinae
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Type > Wolf-Rayet

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 10h 45m 3.6s; DEC = -59° 41’ 5.0”
Orientation: North is 186.6° CCW
Field of View: 0.8 x 0.8 arcminutes
Constellation: Carina

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (WFPC2)		-

ID: opo9409a
Subject Category: B.3.2.4
Subject Name: Eta Carinae
Credits: J. Hester/Arizona state University, NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1994-01-14T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9409a/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2
Color Assignment

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Bandpass
Central Wavelength

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Integration Time
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 161.2650836, -59.6847142
Reference Dimension: 1023.0, 1025.0

Reference Pixel: 512.5, 513.5
Scale: 1.37720514169e-05, 1.37611053449e-05
Rotation: 186.60000000000025
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes: WCS info from NASA/Hubble

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

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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9409a

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9409a.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:40:39+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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