Hubble Space Telescope
Conference
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· Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6739690
The characteristics and capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are described. The telescope can provide an angular resolution of about 0.1 arcsec, a faint stellar limiting magnitude of about 28 mag, and UV observations greater than or equal to 1150 A. The scientific instruments on the HST include: a wide-field and planetary camera, a faint object spectrograph, a faint object camera, a high speed photometer, a high resolution spectrograph, and three fine guidance sensors. The role of the Space Telescope Science Institute in managing and distributing the HST data is examined. The application of the telescope to the study of cosmology, evolution, QSOs and AGNs, galaxies and cluster, stars and the interstellar medium, and planetary astronomy is proposed.
- Research Organization:
- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
- OSTI ID:
- 6739690
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-841238-
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.; (United States) Journal Volume: 470
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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