Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
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 Brought back to Earth by the U.S. Space Shuttle, the WFPC2 is loaded for transport after display at JPL on its way to its final home at the National Air and Space Museum in 2010 |
The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is a baby grand piano sized camera built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and formerly installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was installed by servicing mission 1 (STS-61) in 1993, replacing the telescope's original Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC). WFPC2 was used to image the Hubble Deep Field in 1995, the Hourglass Nebula and Egg Nebula in 1996, and the Hubble Deep Field South in 1998. During STS-125, WFPC2 was removed and replaced with the Wide Field Camera 3 as part of the mission's first spacewalk on May 14, 2009. After returning to Earth, the camera was displayed briefly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, then at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science before moving to its final home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
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- Related: Wide Field Camera 3, Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, Advanced Camera for Surveys, Faint Object Camera
| WFPC2 homepage and user's guide WFPC2 homepage and user's guide www.stsci.edu/instruments/wfpc2/ - Web |
| Space Telescope science institute's documentation ... Space Telescope science institute's documentation on the WFPC2 www.stsci.edu/proposer/cy11/documents/online/Ch_4_7.html - Web |
| NASA article explaining how color is built from mu... NASA article explaining how color is built from multiple filtered images hubblesite.org/.../index.shtml - Web |
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| Wide Field Camera 3 - NASA Wide Field Camera 3 - NASA wfc3.gsfc.nasa.gov/overview/introduction.php - Web |
| the WFPC2 at ESA/Hubble the WFPC2 at ESA/Hubble www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/instruments/wfpc2.html - Web |
| Images with the WFPC2 at ESA/Hubble Images with the WFPC2 at ESA/Hubble www.spacetelescope.org/.../1 - Web |
