Hubble Space Telescope If I need to observe a field containing bright stars, do I risk damage to the NICMOS detector by saturating it?
Q.: If I need to observe a field containing bright stars, do I risk
damage to the NICMOS detector by saturating it?
A.: The
NICMOS Instrument Science Reports Number 24 and Number 23 present
results of the analysis of persistence from On-Orbit data and
Thermal Vacuum data.