HST Hubble HELIX Observations

DOI

For the 14 hours of peak Leonid meteoroid flux in November 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed away from the radiant, and the solar arrays were oriented to minimize their cross-section. By coincidence, one of the nearest and largest planetary nebulae, the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), was nearly opposite the incoming Leonids and could be observed. A "Hubble Helix Team" (below) of volunteers led by Margaret Meixner (STScI) organized a nine-orbit campaign to observe the Helix with the ACS, WFPC2, NICMOS, and STIS.

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.17909/T94K5M
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/mast.stsci/siap/hst.helix
Related Identifier http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/helix/
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://mast.stsci/siap/hst.helix
Provenance
Creator STScI
Publisher Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Publication Year 2004
OpenAccess true
Contact Archive Branch, STScI <archive(at)stsci.edu>
Representation
Resource Type Other; AstroObjects
Version 1.0
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics