Space telescope scientific instruments

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Jan 1979

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In: Space optics; Proceedings of the Seminar, Huntsville, Ala., May 22-24, 1979. (A80-17432 05-89) Bellingham, Wash., Society of

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Hubble Space Telescope, Optical Equipment, Spaceborne Astronomy, Spacecraft Instruments, Spectrographs, Astronomical Photography, Astronomical Photometry, Cameras, Charge Coupled Devices, Photometers, Polarimetry, Tdr Satellites

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The paper describes the Space Telescope (ST) observatory, the design concepts of the five scientific instruments which will conduct the initial observatory observations, and summarizes their astronomical capabilities. The instruments are the wide-field and planetary camera (WFPC) which will receive the highest quality images, the faint-object camera (FOC) which will penetrate to the faintest limiting magnitudes and achieve the finest angular resolution possible, and the faint-object spectrograph (FOS), which will perform photon noise-limited spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry on objects substantially fainter than those accessible to ground-based spectrographs. In addition, the high resolution spectrograph (HRS) will provide higher spectral resolution with greater photometric accuracy than previously possible in ultraviolet astronomical spectroscopy, and the high-speed photometer will achieve precise time-resolved photometric observations of rapidly varying astronomical sources on short time scales.

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