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Wide Field Camera may refer to these instruments:

  • Aboard the Hubble Space Telescope:
    • Wide Field and Planetary Camera (1990–1993)
    • Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (1993–2009)
    • Wide Field Camera 3 (installed 2009)
  • Wide Field Camera, at the Isaac Newton Telescope in the Canaries
  • Wide Field Camera, aboard CALIPSO

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Wide Field and Planetary Camera

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The Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) (pronounced as wiffpick (Operators of the WFPC1 were known as "whiff-pickers")) was a camera installed on the Hubble...

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Wide Field Camera 3

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The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is the Hubble Space Telescope's last and most technologically advanced instrument to take images in the visible spectrum...

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Wide Field Camera

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Wide Field Camera may refer to these instruments: Aboard the Hubble Space Telescope: Wide Field and Planetary Camera (1990–1993) Wide Field and Planetary...

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Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

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The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is a camera formerly installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. The camera was built by the Jet Propulsion...

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Pillars of Creation

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been re-oriented for publication. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 was replaced by the Wide Field Camera 3, and the former was taken back to Earth...

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Hubble Space Telescope

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(non-operative 2004–2009)) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC; 1990–1993) Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2; 1993–2009) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3; 2009–present)...

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ROSAT

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addition, a British-supplied extreme ultraviolet (XUV) telescope, the Wide Field Camera (WFC), was coaligned with the XRT and covered the energy band from...

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Mystic Mountain

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the Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new Wide Field Camera 3, though the region was also viewed by the previous generation instrument...

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Light field camera

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A light field camera, also known as a plenoptic camera, is a camera that captures information about the light field emanating from a scene; that is, the...

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NGC 6302

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central star, a white dwarf, was identified in 2009, using the upgraded Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The star has a current mass...

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Camera

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as photographic film. As a pivotal technology in the fields of photography and videography, cameras have played a significant role in the progression of...

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Panoramic photography

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(APS) cameras use the word "panoramic" to define any print format with a wide aspect ratio, not necessarily photos that encompass a large field of view...

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Advanced Camera for Surveys

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Spectrograph Wide Field and Planetary Camera Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 Wide Field Camera 3 McKee, Maggie. "NASA attempts to revive Hubble's main camera"....

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Parallax

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stars out to a few hundred parsecs. The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 has the potential to provide a precision of 20 to 40 microarcseconds...

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James Webb Space Telescope

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the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which operated at reduced capacity after coolant depletion. Another example is Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and...

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Telescope

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optics). Also using reflecting optics, the Hubble Space Telescope with Wide Field Camera 3 can observe in the frequency range from about 0.2 μm (0.0002 mm)...

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Ultra wide angle lens

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in the camera in question. For 1" any 9mm or shorter is considered ultra wide angle. For 4/3" any 10 mm or shorter lens is considered ultra wide angle...

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Schmidt camera

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A Schmidt camera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is a catadioptric astrophotographic telescope designed to provide wide fields of view with...

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Digital camera

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applications require a wide field of view. Traditionally maintaining consistent light over large 2D areas is quite difficult. With a line scan camera all that is...

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Subaru Telescope

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900-megapixel ultra-wide-field (1.5° field of view) camera saw first light in 2012, and was offered for open-use in 2014. The extremely large wide-field correction...

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