Re: Hubble Space Telescope - optical prescription of WFPC2

"Brian" <b.blandford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does anyone have a reference to a paper which lists the exact
prescription of the corrective optics fitted to Hubble in the 1993
servicing mission, particularly the Wide Field Planetary Camera? Or
just a general description, if that is impossible.

Brian Blandford
Ancient and Modern Optics


It should not be held as a secret or as proprietary information as our
tax dollars paid a lot for the design and its implementation. I'd
start by contacting the Goddard Space Flight Center and work the
search from there.

Jim Klein
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