Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Channel (WFC) The WFC is the most utilized channel of ACS. Its detector consists of two butted 2048x4096 charge-coupled devices (CCDs) for a total of 16.7 Megapixels manufactured by Scientific Imaging Technologies (SITe). The WFC plate scale is 0.05" per pixel and it has an effective field-of-view of 200"×204". The spectral range of the WFC detector is 350-1100 nm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advanced Camera for Surveys"
The Faint Object Camera (FOC) was a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope until 2002. It was replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys. ...more on Wikipedia about "Faint Object Camera"
The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1997 it was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. ...more on Wikipedia about "Faint Object Spectrograph"
The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS or HRS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1997 it was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph"
The Guide Star Catalog (GSC) is also known as the Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog (HSTGC). It is a star catalogue built to support the Hubble Space Telescope with targetting off-axis stars. It contains approximately 20,000,000 celestial bodies with apparent magnitudes of 6 to 15. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guide Star Catalog"
The High Speed Photometer (HSP) was a scientific instrument installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. The HSP was designed to measure the brightness and polarity of rapidly varying celestial objects. It could observe in ultraviolet, visible light, and near infrared at a rate of one measurement per 10 microseconds (10e-5 seconds). The design was novel in that despite being able to view through a variety of filters and apertures, it had no moving parts. ...more on Wikipedia about "High Speed Photometer"
The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region of the sky, based on the results of a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers an area 144 arcseconds across, equivalent in angular size to a tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres, lying in the constellation Ursa Major. The image was assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over ten consecutive days between December 18 and December 28, 1995. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hubble Deep Field" Please inform your friends about shortopedia
The Hubble Deep Field South is a composite of several hundred individual images taken using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over 10 days in September and October 1998. It followed the great success of the original Hubble Deep Field in facilitating the study of extremely distant galaxies in early stages of their evolution. While the WFPC2 took very deep optical images, nearby fields were simultaneously imaged by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hubble Deep Field South"
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely sharp images, and since its launch in 1990, it has become one of the most important telescopes in the history of astronomy. It has been responsible for many ground-breaking observations and has helped astronomers achieve a better understanding of many fundamental problems in astrophysics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hubble Space Telescope"
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) is a small region of space imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope from September 24, 2003 through January 16, 2004. The HUDF contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies. The patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full moon) was chosen because of the low density of bright stars. Although most of the targets visible in the Hubble image can also be seen at infrared wavelengths by ground-based telescopes, Hubble is the only instrument which can make observations of these distant targets at visible wavelengths. Located in the constellation Fornax, the region is below the constellation Orion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hubble Ultra Deep Field"
The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is a scientific instrument for infrared astronomy, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), operating from 1997 to 1999, and from 2002 to the present. ...more on Wikipedia about "Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer"
The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) is a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope, operating from 1997 to 2004. It made many important observations, including the first spectrograph of the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet, Osiris. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph"
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is an organization founded by NASA to manage and direct research done with the Hubble Space Telescope. It is located on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Telescope Science Institute"
Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids was a study involving amateur astronomers and use of the Hubble Space Telescope. ...more on Wikipedia about "Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids"
The Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) was a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was one of the instruments on Hubble at launch, but its functionality was severely impaired by the defects of the main mirror optics which afflicted the telescope. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wide Field and Planetary Camera"
The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was installed by servicing mission 1 ( STS-61) in 1993, replacing the telescope's original Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC). It was used to image the Hubble Deep Field in 1995, and the Hourglass Nebula and Egg Nebula in 1996. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2"
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