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Wide Field Camera 3 is alive and open for business!!

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Astronauts and the entire STS-125 team, and a dedicated team of scientists, engineers, and instrument analysts, and over a decade of planning, building and testing, WFC3 is now performing its science mission.

WFC3 UVIS/IR image of M81
WFC3 UVIS (top left), WFC3 IR (bottom left) and Combined (right) IR/UVIS WFC3 first light observation of spiral galaxy M81 (Image credit: WFC3 Science IPT (SMOV Proposal 11421))


Late Breaking News

WFC3 STATUS: The UVIS and IR channels are operating nominally

[09/23/2009] Why are my DRZ images empty?

[09/23/2009] The September WFC3 Space Telescope Analysis Newsletter (STAN) is available here

[09/18/2009] UVIS and IR pixel area maps are available

[09/09/2009] A summary of WFC3's overall performance and observational capabilities is available here

[09/09/2009] A Summary of WFC3 SMOV activities is available here

[09/09/2009] Tables of measured photometric zeropoints for the UVIS and IR channels are available

[09/09/2009] New UVIS and IR Instrument Distortion Coefficient tables (IDCTABs) are available

[09/09/2009] An on-orbit UVIS unbinned bias file is available

[07/17/2009] Instructions on how to obtain example (i.e. non-flight) UVIS and IR data sets are available

[04/29/2009] WFC3 IR Fowler Sampling Will Not Be Calibrated During Cycle 17

Documents added in the last 45 days

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Why are my DRZ images empty?
Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:12 pm cherylp
UVIS and IR example datasets
Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:54 am cherylp
Cycle 17 Phase 2 update: UVIS shutter vibration
Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:05 pm mikewong

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Newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope moments away from release from Space Shuttle Atlantis (Image credit: NASA)

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