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Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope
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Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope book
Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope
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Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope book
ByGeorge F Benedict
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2000
Imprint CRC Press
Pages 9
eBook ISBN 9781003220435
ABSTRACT
In 1990 NASA launched the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE. In addition to cameras and spectrographs usable from the far ultraviolet to the near-infrared, the observatory contains three white-light INTERFEROMETERS. As part of engineering and science support their primary task was telescope guiding; to position and hold science targets within the science instrument apertures with tolerances approaching 0