Asteroid Trail Crosses Galaxy NGC 4548
stsci_1998-10e March 9th, 1998
Credit: R. Evans and K. Stapelfeldt (JPL
This is a broken asteroid trail crossing the outer regions of galaxy NGC 4548 in Coma Berenices. Five trail segments (shown in white) were extracted from individual exposures and added to a cleaned color image of the galaxy. The asteroid enters the image at top center and moves down toward the lower left. Large gaps in the trail occur because the telescope is orbiting the Earth and cannot continuously observe the galaxy. This asteroid has a visual magnitude of 20.8, a diameter of one mile (1.6 kilometers), and was seen at a distance of 254 million miles from Earth and 292 million miles from the sun.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-10
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 1998-10e
- Subject Category
- A.2.3
- Subject Name
- NGC 4548
- Credits
- R. Evans and K. Stapelfeldt (JPL
- Release Date
- 1998-03-09T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 254,000,000
- Redshift
- 254,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-10
- Type
- Planetary
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- miles away when taken
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- U, I
- Central Wavelength
- 555, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 188.86810363361, 14.47442941028
- Reference Dimension
- 600.00, 600.00
- Reference Pixel
- 77.95808446577, -136.75095931321
- Scale
- -0.00002757234, 0.00002757234
- Rotation
- 11.75935600405
- 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 1351.18 816.25 510.16 552.29 948.38 436.90 31.20 271.46 1236.10 692.64 368.19 461.80 1046.42 620.18 165.92 430.71 Center Pixel Coordinates: 300.00 188.85944153513 300.00 14.48488688560
- 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-p9810e-f-600x600.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9810e-f-600x600.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/10
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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