Development of the second generation Wide-Field Planetary Camera for Hubble Space Telescope service mission

David H. Rodgers; Arthur H. Vaughan

doi:10.1117/12.152673

25 August 1993 Development of the second generation Wide-Field Planetary Camera for Hubble Space Telescope service mission

David H. Rodgers, Arthur H. Vaughan

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Proceedings Volume 1920, Active and Adaptive Optical Components and Systems II; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.152673
Event: 1993 North American Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, 1993, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Abstract

The Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) is the principal instrument of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), occupying the central portion of the telescope's focal plane. The Wide Field Camera meets the originally conceived requirement for an imaging device that covers a square field of view 2.67 arc minutes on a side with a pixel size of 0.1 arc second. The so-called Planetary Camera of WFPC offers a longer effective focal length over a smaller field (yielding 0.043 arc second per pixel) to better sample the point spread function of the telescope for critical definition imaging. The first generation WFPC (WFPC-1) was initiated in late 1977 and launched with the HST in April, 1990. A second generation backup instrument (WFPC-2) currently scheduled for launch in late 1993 will carry corrective optics to restore the flawed vision of the HST. The present paper traces the history of these developments.

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David H. Rodgers and Arthur H. Vaughan "Development of the second generation Wide-Field Planetary Camera for Hubble Space Telescope service mission", Proc. SPIE 1920, Active and Adaptive Optical Components and Systems II, (25 August 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.152673

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