Round Planetary Nebula IC 3568
stsci_1997-38c December 17th, 1997
Credit: Howard Bond (Space Telescope Sci
IC 3568 lies in the constellation Camelopardalis at a distance of about 9,000 light-years, and has a diameter of about 0.4 light-years (or about 800 times the diameter of our solar system). It is an example of a round planetary nebula. Note the bright inner shell and fainter, smooth, circular outer envelope.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-38
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 1997-38c
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- IC 3568
- Credits
- Howard Bond (Space Telescope Sci
- Release Date
- 1997-12-17T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 9,000
- Redshift
- 9,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-38
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in Lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 188.22075011750, 82.55990989250
- Reference Dimension
- 485.00, 479.00
- Reference Pixel
- -121.35194062449, -276.16414687814
- Scale
- -0.00001318458, 0.00001318458
- Rotation
- -102.79211043691
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 630.78 757.54 241.39 246.64 609.89 760.78 241.39 202.03 651.06 743.23 255.82 293.87 634.68 734.05 280.16 263.03 Center Pixel Coordinates: 242.50 188.27925785848 239.50 82.56389341748
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p9738c-f-485x479.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9738c-f-485x479.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1997/38
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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