Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope

The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope UIT was one of three ultraviolet telescopes on the ASTRO-1 mission flown on the space shuttle Columbia during 2-10 December 1990. The same three instruments were later flown on the space shuttle Endeavour from 3-17 March 1995, as part of the ASTRO-2 mission. Exposures were obtained on 70-mm photographic film in the 1200-3300 Å range using broadband filters and later digitized using a Perkin-Elmer microdensitometer. Image resolution was 3" over a 40' field of view. Overall, UIT-1 obtained 821 exposures of 66 targets, and UIT-2 obtained 758 images of 193 targets.

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Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/archive.stsci.edu/uit
Related Identifier http://archive.stsci.edu/uit/
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://archive.stsci.edu/uit
Provenance
Creator Stecher
Publisher Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Publication Year 2004
OpenAccess true
Contact Randy Thompson <archive(at)stsci.edu>
Representation
Resource Type Other; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics