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The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS). This picture was taken after FOS was brought back to the Earth again. Credit: NASA/ESA.

The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in 1997, and is now on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

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Faint Object Spectrograph

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The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph...

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Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

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Lee and Steven Smith, replacing the High Resolution Spectrograph and the Faint Object Spectrograph. It was designed to operate for five years. On August...

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Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement

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incorrectly focused light upon the Faint Object Camera (FOC), Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), and Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) instruments. It was...

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Hubble Space Telescope

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Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), High Speed Photometer (HSP), Faint Object Camera (FOC) and the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS). WF/PC used a...

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Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph

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and the Faint Object Spectrograph, were replaced by two new instruments installed during the mission, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer...

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Messier 87

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corrective-optics module in the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, the Hubble Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was used to measure the rotation velocity of the ionized...

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Pillars of Creation

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Axial Replacement (COSTAR) Faint Object Camera (FOC) Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS/HRS) High Speed Photometer...

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Supermassive black hole

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perform more refined observations of galactic nuclei. In 1994 the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble was used to observe Messier 87, finding that ionized...

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Cosmic Origins Spectrograph

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Camera for Surveys Faint Object Camera Faint Object Spectrograph Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Space...

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Margaret Burbidge

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most distant astronomical object then known. In the 1980s and 1990s she helped develop and utilise the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope...

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Fos

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safety, in engineering Feature-oriented scanning, in microscopy Faint Object Spectrograph, on the Hubble Space Telescope Fields of Science and Technology...

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POA CALFOS

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CALFOS is the improved Post Operational Archive version of the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) calibration pipeline, an earlier instrument aboard the Hubble...

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Wide Field Camera 3

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Origins Spectrograph Faint Object Camera Faint Object Spectrograph Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer...

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Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

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Spectrograph – Instrument installed on the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera – Installed on HST from 1990 to 2002 Faint Object Spectrograph –...

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Proxima Centauri

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method. In 1998, an examination of Proxima Centauri using the Faint Object Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope appeared to show evidence...

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New Technology Telescope

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camera and low-resolution spectrograph, with polarimetric and high-time resolution modes EFOSC2 (ESO Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera, v.2), a visible...

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Very Large Telescope

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wavelengths. Each individual telescope can detect objects that are roughly four billion times fainter than what can be seen with the naked eye. When all...

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List of Hubble Space Telescope anniversary images

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observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects. Hubble does not travel to stars, planets and galaxies. It takes pictures...

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Integral field spectrograph

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Integral field spectrographs (IFS) combine spectrographic and imaging capabilities in the optical or infrared wavelength domains (0.32 μm – 24 μm) to...

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Gemini Observatory

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time and lose it as the instrument is delayed. A wide-field multi-object spectrograph achieved substantial scientific support, but would have required...

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Indian Astronomical Observatory

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telescope is mounted with 3 science instruments called Himalaya Faint Object Spectrograph (HFOSC), the near-IR imager and the optical CCD imager. The telescope...

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Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility

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analysis and visualisation for especially the Hubble instruments Faint Object Spectrograph, STIS, and Advanced Camera for Surveys. For example: aXe – Slitless...

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Space Telescope Science Institute

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the year. For HST, this includes finding guide stars, checking on bright object constraints, implementing specific scheduling requirements, and working...

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Mystic Mountain

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being in space in 2010. Mystic Mountain contains multiple Herbig–Haro objects where nascent stars are firing off jets of gas which interact with surrounding...

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List of astronomy acronyms

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(instrumentation) Faint Object Spectrograph, a spectrometer formerly on the Hubble Space Telescope FOV – (instrumentation) field of view FRB – (celestial object) fast...

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Hubble search for transition comets

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and 2201 Oljato were examined with the Hubble Space telescope's Faint Object Spectrograph for 3085 A emission of OH. These two asteroids were selected because...

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