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HST and FUSE DADS retrievals will be down from Tuesday, September 2 through Wednesday Sept 3 for a DADS/OPUS installation. See list of alternative data sources. During part of this time, the database will also be down and so searches will be down during that time (HLA and GALEX are unaffected by this downtime).

Sample Header from
"FOC Ultraviolet Images of Nearby Galaxies"

SIMPLE  =                    T / Fits standard                                  
BITPIX  =                   16 / Bits per pixel                                 
NAXIS   =                    2 / Number of axes                                 
NAXIS1  =                 1345 / Axis length                                    
NAXIS2  =                 1345 / Axis length                                    
EXTEND  =                    F / File may contain extensions                    
IRAF-TLM= '17:40:08 (19/05/2002)' / Time of last modification                   
OBJECT  = 'E0736-6925[1/1]'     /                                               
ORIGIN  = 'KPNO-IRAF'           /                                               
DATE    = '2002-05-21T14:37:27'                                                 
IRAFNAME= 'e0736-6925'          /  NAME OF IRAF IMAGE FILE                      
IRAF-MAX=           4.830000E2  /  DATA MAX                                     
IRAF-MIN=          -4.993000E3  /  DATA MIN                                     
IRAF-BPX=                   16  /  DATA BITS/PIXEL                              
IRAFTYPE= 'SHORT   '            /  PIXEL TYPE                                   
CRPIX1  =             673.1368                                                  
CRVAL1  =           114.099625                                                  
CTYPE1  = 'RA---TAN'                                                            
CD1_1   =         -6.274921E-6                                                  
CD2_1   =          2.129211E-7                                                  
CRPIX2  =             674.1884                                                  
CRVAL2  =    -69.5299444444407                                                  
CTYPE2  = 'DEC--TAN'                                                            
CD1_2   =         -2.129207E-7                                                  
CD2_2   =          5.871068E-6                                                  
ALLG-MAX=           6.383170E0 / Data max in all groups                         
ALLG-MIN=           0.000000E0 / Data min in all groups                         
MIR_REVR=                    T                                                  
ORIENTAT=            -66.74097                                                  
FILLCNT =                    0                                                  
ERRCNT  =                    0                                                  
FPKTTIME=     49140.2335473619                                                  
LPKTTIME=    49140.23536883182                                                  
                                                                                
                 / GROUP PARAMETERS: OSS                                        
                                                                                
                 / FOC DATA DESCRIPTOR KEYWORDS                                 
INSTRUME= 'FOC               ' / instrument in use                              
ROOTNAME= 'X1AR2E01T         ' / rootname of the observation set                
FILETYPE= 'SCI               ' / shp, udl, sci, sdq                             
                                                                                
                 / CALIBRATION FLAGS AND INDICATORS                             
OPTCRLY = 'F96               ' / optical relay: F48, F96                        
CAMMODE = 'NOTUSED           ' / coronographic apodizer mask: INBEAM, NOTUSED   
F_RATIO =                   96 / focal ratio                                    
SMMMODE = 'NOTUSED           ' / spectro. mirror mechanism: INBEAM, NOTUSED     
SHTMODE = 'NOTUSED           ' / shutter mode: INBEAM, NOTUSED                  
LEDMODE = 'NOTUSED           ' / led calibration status: ACTIVE, NOTUSED        
PXFORMT = 'ZOOM              ' / format of the image: NORMAL, ZOOM              
OPTELT1 =                    0 / filter element, wheel 1 f48: (0-7), f96: (0-11)
OPTELT2 =                    7 / filter element, wheel 2 f48: (0-7), f96: (0-11)
OPTELT3 =                    0 / filter element, wheel 3 f48: (0),   f96: (0-11)
OPTELT4 =                    0 / filter element, wheel 4 f48: (0),   f96: (0-11)
FILTNAM1= 'CLEAR1            ' / filter element name for wheel 1                
FILTNAM2= 'F220W             ' / filter element name for wheel 2                
FILTNAM3= 'CLEAR3            ' / filter element name for wheel 3                
FILTNAM4= 'CLEAR4            ' / filter element name for wheel 4                
SAMPOFF =        0.0000000E+00 / sample offset (0.0-1023.75)                    
LINEOFF =        0.0000000E+00 / line offset (0.0-1023.75)                      
SAMPPLN =                  512 / samples per line (64, 128, 256, or 512)        
LINEPFM =                 1024 / lines per frame (64, 128, 256, 512, or 1024)   
                                                                                
                 / CALIBRATION REFERENCE FILES                                  
GRAPHTAB= 'mtab$c7m1004om.tmg' / the HST graph table                            
COMPTAB = 'mtab$c7m10042m.tmc' / the HST components table                       
UNITAB  = 'xtab$c241150fx.cxu' / table of reciprocal flat field filenames       
BACHFILE= 'xref$91b13148x.r0h' / background reference header file               
ITFHFILE= 'xref$91b13138x.r1h' / itf reference header file                      
BLMHFILE= 'xref$a1m1627sx.r7h' / blemish header file                            
UNIHFILE= 'xref$c2410530x.r2h' / uniform de reference header file               
SDEHFILE= 'N/A               ' / sde reference header file                      
GEOHFILE= 'xref$d4j0930ix.r5h' / geometric reference header file                
                                                                                
                 / CALIBRATION SWITCHES: perform,omit,complete                  
BACCORR = 'OMIT              ' / background subtraction correction              
ITFCORR = 'OMIT              ' / intensity transfer function correction         
PXLCORR = 'COMPLETE'           / split zoom-format pixels                       
UNICORR = 'COMPLETE'           / uniform de correction                          
WAVCORR = 'COMPLETE'           / compute photometric parameters                 
GEOCORR = 'COMPLETE'           / geometric correction                           
SDECORR = 'OMIT              ' / spectrograph de correction                     
                                                                                
                 / CALIBRATION KEYWORDS                                         
DNFORMT =                    8 / bits in each data number (8/16)                
GEODEFV =        0.0000000E+00 / geo DN value for areas outside sci image       
                                                                                
                 / STATISTICAL KEYWORDS                                         
DATE    = '02/06/93          ' / date this file was written (dd/mm/yy)          
PODPSFF = '0                 ' / 0=(no podps fill), 1=(podps fill present)      
STDCFFF = '0                 ' / 0=(no st dcf fill), 1=(st dcf fill present)    
STDCFFP = '0000              ' / st dcf fill pattern (hex)                      
                                                                                
                 / FOC INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTOR KEYWORDS                           
LEDCOLOR= '                  ' / LED color (a color, blank , NONE or ERROR)     
                                                                                
                 / FOC PHOTOMETRY KEYWORDS                                      
PHOTMODE= 'FOC F/96 F220W'     / observation mode                               
PHOTFLAM=         2.016656E-17 / Inverse Sensitivity                            
PHOTZPT =                -21.1 / ST magnitude zero point                        
PHOTPLAM=             2316.783 / Pivot Wavelength                               
PHOTBW  =             248.7933 / RMS Bandwidth of the Filter and Detector       
                                                                                
                 / EXPOSURE INFORMATION                                         
EQUINOX = 'J2000             ' / equinox of the celestial coordinate system     
SUNANGLE=        0.9695457E+02 / angle between sun and V1 axis (deg)            
MOONANGL=        0.7812086E+02 / angle between moon and V1 axis (deg)           
SUN_ALT =        0.5840350E+02 / altitude of the sun above Earth's limb (deg)   
FGSLOCK = 'FINE              ' / commanded FGS lock (FINE,COARSE,GYROS,UNKNOWN) 
                                                                                
DATE-OBS= ' 2/06/93          ' / UT date of start of observation (dd/mm/yy)     
TIME-OBS= '05:26:08          ' / UT time of start of observation (hh:mm:ss)     
EXPSTART=  0.4914022648718E+05 / exposure start time (Modified Julian Date)     
EXPEND  =  0.4914023339401E+05 / exposure end time (Modified Julian Date)       
EXPTIME =        0.5967500E+03 / exposure duration (seconds)--calculated        
EXPFLAG = 'NORMAL            ' / Exposure interruption indicator                
                                                                                
                 / TARGET & PROPOSAL ID                                         
TARGNAME= 'ESO-0736-6925     ' / proposer's target name                         
RA_TARG =  0.1140996250000E+03 / right ascension of the target (deg) (J2000)    
DEC_TARG= -0.6952994444444E+02 / declination of the target (deg) (J2000)        
                                                                                
PROPOSID=                 4804 / PEP proposal identifier                        
PEP_EXPO= '86.0000000        ' / PEP exposure identifier including sequence     
LINENUM = '86.000            ' / PEP proposal line number                       
SEQLINE = '                  ' / PEP line number of defined sequence            
SEQNAME = '                  ' / PEP define/use sequence name                   
                                                                                
HISTORY   Component throughput tables: crotacomp$hst_ota_004.tab,               
HISTORY   crfoccomp$foc_96_rflpri_002.tab, crfoccomp$foc_96_rflsec_002.tab,     
HISTORY   crfoccomp$foc_96_f220w_002.tab, crfoccomp$foc_96_rflfocus_002.tab,    
HISTORY   crfoccomp$foc_96_dqe_003.tab                                          
SCALEDBY=                  100                                                  
WCSDIM  =                    2                                                  
LTV1    =   -0.156768798828125                                                  
LTV2    =     941.540405273438                                                  
LTM1_1  =    0.394888699054718                                                  
LTM2_1  =     0.91872900724411                                                  
LTM1_2  =    -0.91872900724411                                                  
LTM2_2  =    0.394888699054718                                                  
WAT0_001= 'system=image                                                        '
WAT1_001= 'wtype=tan axtype=ra                                                 '
WAT2_001= 'wtype=tan axtype=dec                                                '
                                                                                
                                                                                
END                                                                             


Last Modified: Jan 09, 2007 14:08