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From: fritz@utastro.UUCP (Fritz Benedict)
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Subject: Re: HST long range plans
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 08:46:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 08:46:37 1985
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> [for the black hole...]
> 
> I am curious about the plans for the Hubble Space Telescope
> (not Hunter S. Thompson). Last night I had the reasonable
> idea of using the HST to refine the cepheid variable-
> hubble constant to a high(er) degree. Is the HST going to
> be used for this kind of basic research? 
     Yes.
> Of course, it is
> appealing to think of pointing it at your favorite object
> (M87),
     Yes, very appealing. I think every instrument on HST will be used to
     collect data from M87 during the first few months of operation.
> or simply `empty space', and waiting for the results.
     This will also be done (so called "blank fields").
> If anyone knows some details, I would appreciate a line.
> Thanks.
> 
> Steve Bjork	BJORK@SU-SCORE.ARPA (arpa)
> 		...decwrl!Glacier!Navajo!bjork (uucp)


Take a look at April 1985 issue of Sky and Telescope. Good article by
M. Longair describing some of the science we expect to obtain from HST.




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