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NICMOS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 11

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Part III: 
How to Plan an Observation


The chapters in this part provide the details of how to construct a NICMOS observation: exposure time calculations; overheads and orbit time determinations; and a description of observing techniques for dithering, measuring the background, and mapping extended targets.


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