Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
NGC 1132 |
| Object Description: |
Elliptical Galaxy |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 02h 52m 51.72s
Dec. -01° 16' 10."9 |
| Constellation: |
Eridanus |
| Distance: |
318 million light-years or 97 megaparsecs |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
The image created from HST data from proposal 10558: M. West (European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)), M. Gregg (University of California, Davis), P. Cote (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), S. van den Bergh (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), and M. Drinkwater (University of Queensland). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
September 25, 2005; August 22, 2006 |
| Exposure Time: |
4.8 hours |
| Filters: |
F475W (SDSS g), F850LP (SDSS z) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: M. West (ESO, Chile) |
| Release Date: |
February 5, 2008 |
| Color: |
The image is a composite of separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Two filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. A third, intermediate image was created by combining the two existing images and assigned to the intermediate primary color. In this case, the assigned colors are:
| F475W (g) |
blue |
| F475W (g) + F850LP (z) |
green |
| F850LP (z) |
red |
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| Orientation: |
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