NASA Photo ID: STS061(E)015 File Name: 10093048.jpg
Film Type: 35mm BW Date Taken: 12/06/93
Title: Electronic Still Camera view of Aft end of Wide Field/Planetary Camera in HST
Description:
A close-up view of the aft part of the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC2)
installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was photographed with the
Electronic Still Camera (ESC) from inside Endeavour's cabin as Astronaut F.
Story Musgrave and Jeffrey A. Hoffman moved it from its stowage position
onto the giant telescope. Electronic still photography is technology which
provides the means for a handheld camera to electronically capture and
digitize an image with resolution approaching film quality.
Subject terms:
CAMERAS
ELECTRONIC STILL CAMERA
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
PHOTOGRAPHY
REPAIRING
STS-61
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