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HST Project Publications

The HST Archive Manual
Provides extensive information on how to access the HST and Multimission archives via two user interfaces, StarView and the World Wide Web. Gives advice on search strategies; higher level functions of StarView; descriptions of StarView screens and the HST catalog; nomenclature convention for HST data.

Version 7.0 of the Archive Manual was released in June 1999.

PDF version (3.9 Mb),

On-line version

Postscript version (gzipped) (2.1 Mb).

Users will find the PDF version more flexible and quicker to use. Loading of some chapters with the on-line version might take some time.

The HST Data Handbook
The comprehensive guide to calibrating, reducing, and analyzing HST data.

Archive Newsletters
The electronic newsletters provide information about the various archives supported by the Multi-mission Archive at STScI (MAST), including HST

Old HST Archive Newsletters [incomplete]:

January 17, 1995
March 21, 1995
May 23, 1995
December 12, 1995


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