Several hundred images currently available in the STIS
parallel archive have been
examined to give a flavour of the sort of data that has been taken and an indication
of the longer term promise of this archive. The data range from low Galactic latitude
star fields with bright (~16th mag) stars, to very crowded star fields in the
surroundings of the M 31 dwarf companions to very sparse fields of faint galaxies.
Two examples are shown.