HUT
WUPPE
UIT The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) examines far- and extreme-ultraviolet
spectra, with an emphasis on the largely unexplored 900- to 1200- angstrom
region and uses spectroscopy to reveal the chemistry and structure of the
objects being viewed.
For a larger general description of HUT click here.
For a more technical description of HUT click here.
The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) takes detailed ultraviolet
photographs of
objects or areas of the sky. Before Astro, most of the sky had not been
imaged in the ultraviolet spectrum. The images obtained on Astro-1 were
and important step starting this process.
For a larger general description of UIT click here.
For a more technical description of UIT click here.
The Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment
The Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE)
studies the way ultraviolet light is or is not polarized. This experiment
is the first and most comprehensive effort to obtain polarization data
in the ultraviolet spectrum. The data gathered on Astro-1 have already
resulted in the refinement of several astronomical theories.
For a larger general description of WUPPE click here.
For a more technical description of WUPPE click here.