Omicron Ceti
esahubble_opo9726b August 6th, 1997
Credit: Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the cool red giant star Mira A (right), officially called Omicron Ceti in the constellation Cetus, and its nearby hot companion (left) taken on December 11, 1995 in visible light using the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC). The stars in this false-color picture are separated by an angular size of only 0.6 arcseconds (equal to 70 times the distance between Earth and the Sun), but clearly resolved by the FOC. Image reconstruction techniques have been used to further enhance the details in the Mira images.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9726b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9726b
- Subject Category
- E.3
- Subject Name
- IRAS 02168-0312, Mira A, Omicron Ceti
- Credits
- Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-08-06T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9726b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- FOC
- Color Assignment
- Orange
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- O III
- Central Wavelength
- 501
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 34.8361819326, -2.97730261682
- Reference Dimension
- 500.0, 279.0
- Reference Pixel
- 250.0, 139.5
- Scale
- -5.14200945374e-07, 5.14200945374e-07
- Rotation
- -23.36000000000001
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9726b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9726b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:48:39+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
