bjork@Navajo.ARPA (10/26/85)
[for the black hole...] I am curious about the plans for the Hubble Space Telescope (not Hunter S. Thompson). Last night I had the reasonable idea of using the HST to refine the cepheid variable- hubble constant to a high(er) degree. Is the HST going to be used for this kind of basic research? Of course, it is appealing to think of pointing it at your favorite object (M87), or simply `empty space', and waiting for the results. If anyone knows some details, I would appreciate a line. Thanks. Steve Bjork BJORK@SU-SCORE.ARPA (arpa) ...decwrl!Glacier!Navajo!bjork (uucp)
fritz@utastro.UUCP (Fritz Benedict) (10/29/85)
> [for the black hole...] > > I am curious about the plans for the Hubble Space Telescope > (not Hunter S. Thompson). Last night I had the reasonable > idea of using the HST to refine the cepheid variable- > hubble constant to a high(er) degree. Is the HST going to > be used for this kind of basic research? Yes. > Of course, it is > appealing to think of pointing it at your favorite object > (M87), Yes, very appealing. I think every instrument on HST will be used to collect data from M87 during the first few months of operation. > or simply `empty space', and waiting for the results. This will also be done (so called "blank fields"). > If anyone knows some details, I would appreciate a line. > Thanks. > > Steve Bjork BJORK@SU-SCORE.ARPA (arpa) > ...decwrl!Glacier!Navajo!bjork (uucp) Take a look at April 1985 issue of Sky and Telescope. Good article by M. Longair describing some of the science we expect to obtain from HST. -- Fritz Benedict (512)471-4461x448 uucp: {...noao,decvax,ut-sally}!utastro!fritz arpa: fritz@ut-ngp snail: Astronomy, U of Texas, Austin, TX 78712