WFPC2

These pages contain instrument-specific information about the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and are maintained by the ACS/WFPC2 Group in the Instruments Division at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The WFPC2 is used to obtain high resolution images of astronomical objects over a relatively wide field of view and a broad range of wavelengths (1150 to 11,000 Å).

WFPC2 Advisories - Updated 09/10/2009

IMPORTANT! 8/12/2009 - Please visit the WFPC2 Reprocessing Page for information regarding the file formats of WFPC2 data retrieved from the HST archive. The default format for WFPC2 data has changed.

NEW 9/10/2009 - A new ACS+WFPC2 STAN has been posted to the newsletters page.

NEW 5/18/2009 - WFPC2 ISR 2009-05: "Bandwidth Stability of the WFPC2 Narrow Band and Linear Ramp Filters" has been released.

NEW 5/12/2009 - WFPC2 ISR 2009-04: "Wavelength Stability of the WFPC2 Narrow Band and Linear Ramp Filters" is now available.

NEW 4/30/2009 - WFPC2 ISR 2009-03: "Pipeline Correction of Images Impacted by the WF4 Anomaly" has been released. ***Note that there is a new data quality flag value (2048 or bit 11) that is set for all pixels in images whose bias values are so low that they are unlikely to be properly corrected.

NEW 4/1/2009 - WFPC2 ISR 2009-02: "WFPC2 F343N Filter Throughput Decline" has been released.

NEW 3/27/2009 - The new MultiDrizzle Handbook has been released.

NEW 3/25/2009 - WFPC2 ISR 2009-01:"Rapid Pinhole Growth in the F160BW Filter" has been released.

Previous WFPC2 Advisories

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WFPC2 Forum

WFPC2 drizzling cookbooks online
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Quick Start Guide to WFPC2 Imaging for ACS Proposers
Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:10 am mutchler

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