| NGC 4214 (UGC 7278, 1213+3637) -- This starburst Magellanic irregular galaxy has been studied in the UV with IUE (Huchra et al. 1983; Hartmann, Geller, & Huchra 1986), and in the optical (Sargent & Filippenko 1991), and shows Wolf-Rayet signatures. The archival HST FOC image shown here is analyzed, along with HST spectroscopy, by Leitherer et al. (1996). It is a 1200 s exposure with the standard format, but with a F2ND neutral density filter, which attenuates the flux by a factor of 5, in addition to the F220W filter. The sensitivity is then 0.4 times that of the standard setup. The image shows a bright central point source, surrounded by numerous compact sources. Most of the total UV flux, which is in excellent agreement with that measured by IUE at 2300 Å (Kinney et al. 1993), comes from the central source. Leitherer et al. (1996) argue that most of the fainter sources are individual stars. This galaxy has the second largest total UV flux in the sample (after NGC 5253).
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