The Hubble Helix
Home - Observations - Data - Reductions - ImagesProject highlights
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Press release
on "Astronomy Day", 10 May 2003:
UPI, Astronomy, Spaceflight Now, ABC (Australia), EurekAlert, Roanoke Times - AAS poster presented in Seattle, January 2003 (PDF file)
Web site contents
- Home: project highlights, publications, related web sites
- Observations: description of the observing program, and listing of exposures
- Data: Download FITS data for further processing and analysis. Includes raw data, and the heavily processed mosaics which were used to produce the color composite image. Many intermediate files from various steps in the processing are also included.
- Reductions: Details on data calibration and reduction; includes drizzling, mosaicking (astrometric registration), cosmic ray rejection, and color image production.
- Images: collection of GIF images for easy viewing and comparison
Related links
- All HST press releases involving planetary nebulae, including the 1996 WFPC2 Helix observations
- General information on planetary nebulae by SEDS
- Galactic planetary nebula image collections by Hajian & Terzian, and Balick
The Hubble Helix Team
M. Meixner (Principal Investigator), H.E. Bond, G. Chapman, Y.H. Chu, C. Cox, P. Cox, W. Crothers, L.M. Frattare, R. Gilliland, M. Guerrero, R. Gruendl, F. Hamilton, R. Hook, P. Huggins, I. Jordan, C.D. Keyes, A. Koekemoer, K. Kwitter, Z.G. Levay, P.R. McCullough, M. Mutchler, K. Noll, C.R. O'Dell, N. Panagia, M. Reinhart, M. Robberto, K. Sahu, D. Soderblom, L. Stanghellini, C.Tyler, J.Valenti, A.Welty, and B.WilliamsWe thank the many people at GSFC and STScI who schedule and operate the telescope for making this opportunity available to the astronomical community. In particular we thank Keith Kalinowski and Dave Scheve who approved pointing the HST at the Helix during the Leonids stand-down period.
Maintained by the Hubble Helix Team. Send comments to mutchler@stsci.edu. Copyright © 2003 The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. All Rights Reserved.