High Speed Photometer
The High Speed Photometer (HSP) is a
The HSP was one of the instruments on Hubble at launch. Its primary mission was compromised by the optical problems with the telescope, although some projects were still successful. During the first servicing mission, in December 1993, it was replaced by the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR), which corrected the optical problem for the remaining instruments.
The principal investigator for the instrument was Dr. Robert C. Bless.[3] Dr. Bless died in 2015, and his contributions to the Hubble Space Telescope and the HSP instrument were noted in news media.[2] He worked at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the HSP was the lightest and least expensive of the launch instruments.[2]
The HSP instrument is located as of 2015 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Place.[2]
It was scientifically active during its period of use, an example of observations taken with the instrument is ultraviolet
Purpose, objectives
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Specifications
- Wavelengths of light detected 115 nm to 870 nm[1]
- Mass : 300 kg[1] or 273 kg[5]
- Fields of view 0.4, 1.0, and 10.8 )
History
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Operations
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Results
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Notes
- ^ a b c "Hubble's Instruments: HSP – High Speed Photometer". www.spacetelescope.org. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- ^ a b c d "Wisconsin contributions helped Hubble Space Telescope soar". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- ^ "High Speed Photometer". www.sal.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- ^ Ultraviolet Photometry of Nova Cygni 1992 Obtained with the High Speed Photometer 1994
- ^ a b High-Speed Photometer (HSP)
Further reading
Bless, R. C.; Richards, E. E.; Bosh, A.; Dolan, J. F.; Elliot, J. L.; Nelson, M.; Percival, J. W.; Robinson, E. L.; Taylor, M.; Van Citters, G. W.; White, R. L. (1999). "The Hubble Space Telescope's High‐Speed Photometer". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 111 (757): 364–375.