Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
NGC 1672 |
| Object Description: |
Barred Spiral Galaxy |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 04h 45m 42s.10
Dec. -59° 14' 56" |
| Constellation: |
Dorado |
| Distance: |
Approximately 60 million light-years (18 megaparsecs) away. |
| Dimensions: |
This image is 4.4 arcminutes (75,000 light-years or 23 kiloparsecs) wide. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
The Hubble image was created from HST data from proposal 10354: L. Jenkins (University of Leicester), M. Ward and T. Roberts (University of Durham), A. Levan (University of Hertfordshire), and A. Zezas (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
August 1, 2005 |
| Exposure Time: |
2.7 hours |
| Filters: |
F435W (B), F550M (y), F658N (Halpha+[N II]), and F814W (I) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration |
| Release Date: |
April 3, 2007 |
| Color |
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using several different filters. Three filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. One filter was used to sample narrow wavelength emission. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
| F435W (B) |
blue |
| F550M (y) |
green |
| F658N (Halpha+[N II]) and F814W (I) |
red |
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| Orientation: |
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