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    Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) for the Hubble Space Telescope is a system of three instruments used for pointing the telescope in space, and also for astrometry...
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    A fine guidance sensor (FGS) is an instrument on board a space telescope that provides high-precision pointing information as input to the telescope's...
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  • Geological Society (F.G.S.) Fergusonite FG syndrome Fine guidance sensor Fine Guidance Sensor (HST), FGS for the Hubble Space Telescope Flagstaff railway...
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  • Space Telescope Space Telescope Science Institute Star catalog Fine Guidance Sensor (HST) Lasker; et al. (June 1990). "The Guide Star Catalog. I - Astronomical...
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    x-ray detectors. Coherence Coherence scanning interferometry Fine Guidance Sensor (HST) (HST FGS are interferometers) Holography Interferometric visibility...
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    accuracy of about 2% or better. HST's guidance system can also be used as a scientific instrument. Its three Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) are primarily used to...
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    capability of the Fine Guidance Sensor. During this EVA astronauts noted cracking and wear on thermal insulation on the side of HST facing sun and in...
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    STS-125 (redirect from HST-SM4)
    Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six gyroscopes, and two battery unit modules to allow the telescope...
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  • (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations center for the James Webb Space...
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    NIRSpec CAD view with main assemblies NIRSpec and the optical path Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph MIRI (Mid-Infrared...
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    Alignment of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's sensors Webb's Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) Webb observing time is allocated through a General...
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    photo of the pillars is composed of 32 different images from four CCD sensors in the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board Hubble. The photograph...
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    Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six gyroscopes, and two battery unit modules to allow the telescope...
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    binary. In 2003, Tanga et al. published results obtained from the Fine Guidance Sensor on the Hubble Space Telescope in which high-precision interferometry...
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    Spectrograph, and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six new gyroscopes, and two battery unit modules, to allow the telescope...
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    normally require a pair of nearby stars on which the telescope's Fine Guidance Sensors can lock during an exposure, but given the importance of the HDF...
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    Stability and Precision of Fine Guidance Sensor #3: The Parallax and Proper Motion of Proxima Centauri" (PDF). Proceedings of the HST Calibration Workshop....
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    stability and precision of fine guidance sensor #3: the parallax and proper motion of Proxima Centauri (PDF). Proceedings of the HST calibration workshop....
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  • in the Eagle Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Butterfly Nebula. The HST has provided data and imagery so detailed that scientists and film technicians...
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    Science Instrument Module which holds the science instruments and fine guidance sensor. The other two major sections of the JWST are the Integrated Science...
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    Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam); Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec); Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS-NIRISS)....
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  • covered the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on NASA's Servicing Mission 4 (HST-SM4), the eleven-day fifth and final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope...
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    airborne support equipment (e.g., the Flight Support Structure used for HST servicing missions). Look up androgynous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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    replace gyroscopes and a transmitter, and to install a new computer guidance sensor and recorder. On December 25, 1999, the crew celebrated the only Christmas...
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    Bean, Jacob L.; Freedman, Wendy L. (2007). "Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity...
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    Stability and Precision of Fine Guidance Sensor #3: The Parallax and Proper Motion of Proxima Centauri" (PDF). Proceedings of the HST Calibration Workshop....
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    Proxima Centauri: Time-resolved astrometry of a flare site using HST fine guidance sensor 3. The Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems...
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  • OB systems in the Carina nebula with the Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor". The Astronomical Journal. 128 (1): 323–329. Bibcode:2004AJ....128...
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    Bean, Jacob L.; Freedman, Wendy L. (2007). "Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity...
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  • Planetarium, through a widely varied career on NASA missions, including HST, Cassini, Mars Exploration Rovers and the ISS JPL · 8136 8137 Kvíz 1979 SJ...
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