Technical difficulties encountered using the Very Wide Field Camera (VWFC) during the Spacelab 1 Shuttle mission are reported. The VWFC is a wide low resolution (5 arcmin half-half width) photographic camera, capable of operating in both spectrometric and photometric modes. The bandpasses of the photometric mode of the VWFC are defined by three Al + MgF2 interference filters. A piggy-back spectrograph attached to the VWFC was used for observations in the spectrometric mode. A total of 48 astronomical frames were obtained using the VWFC, of which only 20 were considered to be of adequate quality for astronomical data processing. Preliminary analysis of the 28 poor-quality images revealed the following possible defects in the VWFC: darkness in the spacing frames, twilight/dawn UV straylight, and internal UV straylight. Improvements in the VWFC astronomical data processing scheme are expected to help identify and eliminate UV straylight sources in the future.
Preliminary results on the various U.V. straylight sources for the VWFC onboard SL 1
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