Comet Siding Spring (October 19, 2014)

stsci_2014-45d October 23rd, 2014

Credit: NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (PSI), C.M. Lisse (JHU/APL), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

The comet image shown here is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 exposures taken between October 18, 8:06 a.m. EDT and October 19, 11:17 p.m. EDT.

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Comet C/2013 A1 • Comet Siding Spring
Subject - Solar System: Interplanetary Body > Comet > Nucleus

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 1h 10m 30.4s; DEC = -24° 54’ 57.3”
Constellation: Sculptor

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (WFC3/UVIS)	Optical (I)	775.0 nm

ID: 2014-45d
Subject Category: A.2.2.1
Subject Name: Comet C/2013 A1, Comet Siding Spring
Credits: NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (PSI), C.M. Lisse (JHU/APL), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Release Date: 2014-10-23T00:00:00
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Reference Url: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2014/news-2014-45

Type: Observation
Image Quality: Good
Distance Notes: On October 19, 2014, at 2:28 p.m. EDT, Mars and Comet Siding Spring were approximately 149 million miles from Earth and passed within 87,000 miles (1.5 arcminutes) of each other.

Facility: Hubble
Instrument: WFC3/UVIS
Color Assignment: Grayscale

Band: Optical
Bandpass: I
Central Wavelength: 775

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
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Reference Value: 17.6265056, -24.9159111
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Related Resources: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/45

Metadata Date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00
Metadata Version: 1.2

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