Publication Date:
2019-08-28
Description:
The instrumental configuration, calibration, and operations during the first flight of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on the Astro-1 mission, December 2-10, 1990, are described. The UV images of a wide variety of astronomical objects were recorded with a 40-arcmin diameter field of view. Images of targets as faint as magnitude 21 (UV) were secured with a resolution of about 3 arcsec. The optics, light baffling, and image motion compensation system are summarized, and detectors and electronic subsystems are described.
Keywords:
ASTRONOMY
Type:
Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X); 395; 1; p. L1-L4.
Format:
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