First Images
STS-109 Hubble Update Mission
Magnificent images are expected to be achieved by the
Advanced
Camera for Surveys (ACS), one of
the upgrades
being installed on the
Hubble Space Telescope during the
ongoing servicing mission.
Compared to Hubble's workhorse Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), whose achievements include the current deep field views of the Universe, the new technology ACS will be twice as sharp an imager with twice the field of view and five times the sensitivity. The Wide Field ACS camera has 2 2048 × 4096, 15 µm/pixel CCD detectors!
Along with extended views of the distant cosmos, enthusiastic astronomers also plan to use the ACS to monitor our own Solar System and to search for planets orbiting stars beyond the Sun.
See Instrument Overview. And...see the Next Generation Wide Field Camera 3 array. Wow!
Compared to Hubble's workhorse Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), whose achievements include the current deep field views of the Universe, the new technology ACS will be twice as sharp an imager with twice the field of view and five times the sensitivity. The Wide Field ACS camera has 2 2048 × 4096, 15 µm/pixel CCD detectors!
Along with extended views of the distant cosmos, enthusiastic astronomers also plan to use the ACS to monitor our own Solar System and to search for planets orbiting stars beyond the Sun.
See Instrument Overview. And...see the Next Generation Wide Field Camera 3 array. Wow!
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