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    The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is a camera formerly installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. The camera was built by the Jet Propulsion...
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    The Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) (pronounced as wiffpick (Operators of the WFPC1 were known as "whiff-pickers")) was a camera installed on the Hubble...
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    visible spectrum. It was installed as a replacement for the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 during the first spacewalk of Space Shuttle mission STS-125...
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    sensors in the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board Hubble. The photograph was made with light emitted by different elements in the cloud and appears as...
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    the Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over ten consecutive days between December 18 and 28, 1995. The field is so small that only a...
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  • Wide Field Camera may refer to these instruments: Aboard the Hubble Space Telescope: Wide Field and Planetary Camera (1990–1993) Wide Field and Planetary...
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    Engraved Hourglass Nebula (category Planetary nebulae)
    oxygen and carbon. The central star of the nebula is unknown. The Hourglass Nebula was photographed by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 of the Hubble...
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    expanding at 18 km/sec). The Egg Nebula was photographed by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Egg Nebula emits...
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    Viewing Zone (CVZ). The earlier observations, using the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) camera, were able to take advantage of the increased observing...
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    thought to be colliding galaxies. The image was taken with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 instrument. It was released along with 59 other images of...
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    Deep Field South is a composite of several hundred individual images taken using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over 10...
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    Spectrograph Wide Field and Planetary Camera Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 Wide Field Camera 3 McKee, Maggie. "NASA attempts to revive Hubble's main camera"....
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    photograph and a term for a region in the Carina Nebula imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new Wide Field Camera 3, though...
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    Counting efficiency DQE (imaging) Solar-cell efficiency Shaheen, Sean (2001). "2.5% efficient organic plastic solar cells". Applied Physics Letters. 78 (6):...
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    the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, noted for its unique "stair-step" crop and for such astrophotos as the Pillars of Creation...
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    Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Wide Field and Planetary Camera Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 Wide Field Camera 3 Tanglao, Leezel...
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    STS-61 (section Flight Day 2)
    later reported that the new camera successfully performed its series of initial tests. The new Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 had a higher rating than...
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  • close-up and during maintenance. IMAX cameras were taken to the Hubble Space Telescope on STS-61 (Servicing Mission 1 in December 1993) and on STS-125...
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    small to produce supernova explosions, and end their lives by producing a planetary nebula instead, while a star heavier than 12 M☉ would have produced a...
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    A Schmidt camera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is a catadioptric astrophotographic telescope designed to provide wide fields of view with...
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    (non-operative 2004–2009)) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC; 1990–1993) Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2; 1993–2009) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3; 2009–present)...
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    After getting their tools and equipment for the EVA set up, Grunsfeld and Feustel removed the old Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which was installed in...
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  • servicing mission STS-125. Electronic failures in STIS (in 2001) and in the ACS Wide-Field Channel (in 2007) were also repaired on-orbit in May 2009, bringing...
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    measurements. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) of the HST was used to measure the magnitudes of 52 Cepheid variables, and the resulting distance...
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  • type of association and are tools in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive for using data from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Associations...
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    a distance of about 0.5 AU. A subsequent search using the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 failed to locate any companions. Astrometric measurements...
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    spacecraft Viking program Voyager program (Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Theodore von Kármán...
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    orbit that they could replace the WFPC with the improved Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 which would incorporate corrective optics. This left solutions...
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    close-up shot of the galaxy with its Advanced Camera for Surveys and its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The structure of NGC 428 has been compared to...
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  • Southern Crab Nebula (aka Hen 2-104) was released. This nebula is located in the Constellation Centaurus. List of Deep Fields "Hubble Sees a Horsehead of...
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