Faint Object Camera

Faint Object Camera (Dornier Museum)

The Faint Object Camera (FOC) was a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope from launch in 1990 until 2002. It was replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys.

The camera was built by Dornier GmbH and was funded by the European Space Agency. The unit actually consists of two complete and independent camera systems designed to provide extremely high resolution, exceeding 0.05 arcseconds. It is designed to view very faint UV and optical light from 115 to 650 nanometers in wavelength.^[1]

The camera was designed to operate at low, medium, or high resolution. The angular resolution and field of view at each resolution were as follows:^[2]

	Angular resolution	Field of view
Low resolution (f/48)	0.043 arcseconds	22 arcseconds
Medium resolution (f/96)	0.022 arcseconds	11 arcseconds
High resolution (f/288)	0.0072 arcseconds	3.6 arcseconds

Examples

Pluto and its moon Charon revealed by the Hubble Faint Object Camera (1994)

The "Einstein cross", discovered in 1985 by J. Huchra, is a large gravitational lens. 1990 Hubble image

Nova Cygni 1992 with FOC/COSTAR^[3]

References

↑ The Space Telescope Observatory (Technical report). NASA. 1982. CP-2244. , page 40. A 40 MB PDF file.
↑ "FOC - Faint Object Camera". Hubble. European Space Agency. 2006-12-12. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
↑ Nova Cygni 1992

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Hubble Space Telescope

Current instruments	Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)

Previous instruments	Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) Faint Object Camera (FOC) Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS/HRS) High Speed Photometer (HSP) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2)

Shuttle missions	launch: STS-31 (1990) servicing: STS-61 (1993) STS-82 (1997) STS-103 (1999) STS-109 (2002) STS-125 (2009)

Special fields and images	Pillars of Creation (1995) Hubble Deep Field (1995) Hubble Deep Field South (1998) Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (2003–04) Hubble eXtreme Deep Field Extended Groth Strip (2004–05) SWEEPS (2006) Mystic Mountain (2010) Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

Fairchild Aircraft

Subsidiaries	Dornier Flugzeugwerke AMC-5 Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen Dornier Viper Faint Object Camera Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen Project 621 Zündapp Janus Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. Hiller Aircraft Kreider-Reisner Kreider-Reisner Midget Meyers Midget Ranger/Fairchild Engines AUM-N-2 Petrel Republic Aircraft

Products	International Cometary Explorer SAM-N-2 Lark XSM-73 Goose

People	Claude Dornier Sherman Fairchild Stanley Hiller

Related	Elbit Systems Hiller Aviation Museum M7 Aerospace United Helicopters

European manned spaceflight

General

Facilities

Earth-based reasearch

Spacecraft used

Active	Soyuz TMA-M

Planned and proposed	DC4EU Orion (Orion Service Module) Soyuz-MS

Retired and cancelled	CSTS Hermes Soyuz-TM Soyuz-TMA Space Shuttle

Mission highlights

Space Station	Mir (Euromir, Interkosmos) International Space Station (ELIPS programme; Modules: Columbus, Cupola, Harmony, Tranquility)

Other	European Retrievable Carrier Hubble Space Telescope (Faint Object Camera) Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Spacelab (Deutschland-1, Deutschland-2) Tethered Satellite System (STS-46)

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