Hubble image archive
Compass and Scale Image for Comet ISON
CreditsNASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2013
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2013-14-3173-image
Credits
NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Comet ISON |
| Object Description | Comet |
| Distance | At the time of the Hubble observation, the comet was 4.15 astronomical units (386 million miles) from the Sun. The comet was 4.24 astronomical units (394 million miles) from Earth. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The image was created from Hubble data from proposal J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), P. Lamy (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), H. Weaver (JHU/APL), M. A'Hearn and M. Kelley (University of Maryland), M. Knight (Lowell Observatory), T. Farnham (University of Maryland), and I. Toth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). |
| Instrument | HST>WFC3/UVIS |
| Exposure Dates | April 10, 2013 |
| Filters | F606W (V) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | This image was originally black and white and recorded only overall brightness. These brightness values were translated into a range of bluish hues. Such color "maps" can be useful in helping to distinguish subtly varying brightness in an image. |
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