The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) was flown as part of the Astro observatory on the Space Shuttle Columbia in December 1990 and again on the Space Shuttle Endeavor in March 1995. Ultraviolet (1200-3300 Angstroms) images of a variety of astronomical objects, with a 40 arcmin field of view and a resolution of about 3 arcsec, were recorded on photographic film. The data recorded during the first flight are available to the astronomical community through the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC); the data recorded during the second flight will soon be available as well. This paper discusses in detail the design, operation, data reduction, and calibration of UIT, providing the user of the data with information for understanding and using the data. It also provides guidelines for analyzing other astronomical imagery made with image intensifiers and photographic film.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9704297,
title = {The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope: Instrument and Data Characteristics},
author = {Theodore P. Stecher and Robert H. Cornett and Michael R. Greason and Wayne B. Landsman and Jesse K. Hill and Robert S. Hill and Ralph C. Bohlin and Peter C. Chen and Nicholas R. Collins and Michael N. Fanelli and Joan I. Hollis and Susan G. Neff and Robert W. O'Connell and Joel D. Offenberg and Ronald A. Parise and Joel Wm. Parker and Morton S. Roberts and Andrew M. Smith and William H. Waller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9704297},
year = {2009}
}
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44 pages, LaTeX, AAS preprint style and EPSF macros, accepted by PASP