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On-Orbit Performance of the HST Fine Guidance Sensors

David J. Eaton, Richard Whittlesey, Bruce Allen, Roy Stoll, Linda Abramowicz-Reed, Robert Basedow, and Marcel Margulies

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Abstract

The three Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS's) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have two principal functions: 1) providing an absolute pointing reference to the telescope pointing control system, and 2) serving as an astrometry instrument.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

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