Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
AU Microscopii (AU Mic, GJ 803, HD197481) |
| Object Description: |
Spectral Type "M0" Star with Debris Disk |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 20h 45m 09s.53
Dec. -31° 20' 27".2 |
| Constellation: |
Microscopium |
| Distance: |
Approximately 33 light-years (10 parsecs). |
| Dimensions: |
This image is 16 arcseconds (160 Astronomical Units) across. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image was created from HST data from the following proposal 10228: P. Kalas, J. Graham, and B. Matthews (University of California, Berkeley). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/HRC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
August 1, 2004 |
| Filters: |
F606W (V): POL0V, POL60V, and POL120V |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and J. Graham (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Release Date: |
January 7, 2007 |
| Color: |
This image is representatively colored in a heat map color scheme. This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS/HRC instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Exposures were made through a filter sampling a broad range of wavelengths plus three separate polarizing filters with angles of polarization at 0°, 60° and 120°. The exposures have been combined into a single monochromatic image with brightness values mapped to a sequence of colors. |
| Orientation: |
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