The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope: Design and Performance
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- August 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1086/186474
- Bibcode:
- 1992ApJ...395L...1S
- Keywords:
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- Design Analysis;
- Image Processing;
- Performance Prediction;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Ultraviolet Telescopes;
- Astronomical Observatories;
- Calibrating;
- Image Motion Compensation;
- Radiation Detectors;
- Astronomy;
- ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES;
- SPACE PROBES;
- TELESCOPES