Hubble Space Telescope Post-Servicing

Faint Object Camera + COSTAR

First Press Release Photos

Images from the European Space Agency, released 13 Jan 94: (GIF renditions of press release hardcopies).

[left] An FOC image of a star taken prior to the STS-61 Space Shuttle mission to service the HST during which astronauts installed COSTAR.
[right] Following the installation, deployment, and alignment of COSTAR...the starlight is concentrated into a 0.1 arc second radius circle.

Images of the central region of the type 2 Seyfert galaxy, NGC 1068.
[left] Pre-COSTAR [right] With COSTAR's corrective optics

[left] FOC image of Nova Cygni 1992 taken on May 31, 1993, 467 days after it exploded.
[right] Nova Cygni imaged by the FOC/COSTAR after the December '93 servicing mission. The image shows the gas shell's evolution in the intervening months.

Author: James E. Gass (Hughes STX) gass@ndadsa.gsfc.nasa.gov
Last Revised: 21 Jan 1994

* National Space Science Data Center *