Hubble Image of M13's Nucleus
stsci_2008-40d December 4th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Hubble catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This glittering metropolis of stars is easily found in the winter sky in the constellation Hercules. This image is a composite of archival Hubble data taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys. Observations from four separate science proposals taken in November 1999, April 2000, August 2005, and April 2006 were used. The image includes broadband filters that isolate light from the blue, visible, and infrared portions of the spectrum.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-40
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 2008-40d
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- M13, NGC 6205
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2008-12-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Lightyears
- 25,000
- Redshift
- 25,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-40
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- 25,000 light-years (7.6 kiloparsecs)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS, WFPC2, WFPC2, ACS, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Cyan, Orange, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, V, I, I, I
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 555, 785, 814, 814
- Start Time
- 2005-08-15T00:00:00, 1999-11-10T00:00:00, 2000-04-22T00:00:00, 1999-11-10T00:00:00, 1999-11-10T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- A
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 250.4198041, 36.4597763
- Reference Dimension
- 6360.0, 6360.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3181.0, 3181.0
- Scale
- -9.25865e-06, 9.2586487e-06
- Rotation
- 0.27
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- 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-p0840d-f-4465x4496.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0840d-f-4465x4496.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/40
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
