Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. UIT project
  2. Published by
    Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Abstract

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.

Keywords
  1. Observational astronomy
  2. UV Astronomy
See also HTML
http://archive.stsci.edu/uit/
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://mast.stsci/siap/uit

Access

IVOA Simple Image Search SIAP
For use with a VO-enabled image processor (e.g., Aladin).
http://archive.stsci.edu/siap/search.php?id=UIT&

History

2004-11-22T12:22:52Z
Resource record created

Contact

Name
Archive Branch, STScI
E-Mail
archive@stsci.edu