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Catalog Service:
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2

Short name: HST.WFPC2
IVOA Identifier: ivo://archive.stsci.edu/hst/wfpc2Publisher: Space Telescope Science Institute Archive ivo://archive.stsci.edu/stsci-arc[Pub. ID]
More Info: http://www.stsci.edu/instruments/wfpc2/wfpc2_top.html
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2004 Nov 22 12:22:45Z
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Description


The WFPC2 is used to obtain high resolution images of astronomical objects over a relatively wide field of view and a broad range of wavelengths (1150 to 11,000 Å).

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: Space Telescope Science Institute Archive ivo://archive.stsci.edu/stsci-arc[Pub. ID]

Creator: Westphal

Contact Information:
X Randy Thompson
Email: archive at stsci.edu

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service apparently provides only public data

This resource was registered on: 2004 Nov 22 12:22:45Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2020 Jul 23 19:52:01Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Archive
Subject keywords:
  • Observational astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Galaxies
  • Stars
  • Nebulae
  • Planets
This service provides data from:
  • facility: HST
  • instrument: WFPC2
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://www.stsci.edu/instruments/wfpc2/wfpc2_top.html

Data Coverage Information

This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time.

Wavebands covered:

  • Optical
  • UV
  • Infrared

Available Service Interfaces

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This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/search.php?sci_data_set_name=U*&
Maximum search radius accepted: 180 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 100
This service will ignore the VERB input parameter.


Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute

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