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Uranus Science with Space Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

John Caldwell
John Caldwell*
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
*
*Permanent address: E.S.S. Dept., S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, New York 11794.

Abstract

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The Space Telescope Observatory, scheduled for launch in 1985, is described. The advantages of the space environment and the consequent features of ST performance are given, with Uranus observations as examples. The first generation instruments, including two cameras, two spectrographs and a high speed photometer, are discussed. The Space Telescope Science Institute, which will manage the Observatory, is discussed briefly. The potential scientific interaction with the Voyager 2 encounter of Uranus is also considered.

Type
Future Observations of Uranus
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 60: Uranus and the Outer Planets , 1982 , pp. 259 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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