Wide-Field Image of the Eagle Nebula
stsci_2005-12x April 25th, 2005
Credit: T.A.Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage, NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA/NSF) and B.A.Wolpa (NOAO/AURA/NSF)
This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. It shows the areas seen in greater detail with Hubble's Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) in 1995 and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in 2005.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2005/news-2005-12
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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Image Details
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- ID
- 2005-12x
- Subject Category
- B.4.2.1
- Subject Name
- Eagle Nebula, M16, NGC 6611, IC 4703
- Credits
- T.A.Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage, NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA/NSF) and B.A.Wolpa (NOAO/AURA/NSF)
- Release Date
- 2005-04-25T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 31,000,000
- Redshift
- 31,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2005/news-2005-12
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Kitt Peak .9 meter
- Instrument
- Mosaic
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- F
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 274.70088500000, -13.80724700000
- Reference Dimension
- 2423.00, 2423.00
- Reference Pixel
- 1169.88783090874, 1773.55947565654
- Scale
- -0.00011830110, 0.00011830110
- Rotation
- 89.78744380388
- 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
- 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-p0512x-f-2423x2423.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0512x-f-2423x2423.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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