The technical and operational information contained in this Handbook is the summary of the experience gained both by members of the STScI NICMOS group and by the NICMOS IDT (P.I.: Rodger Thompson, U. of Arizona) encompassing Cycle 7, Cycle 7N and Cycle 11. Special thanks are due to Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider and Dean Hines (U. of Arizona), whose help has been instrumental in many sections of this Handbook.We are also indebted to Wolfram Freudling (ST-ECF) for major contributions to the section on the NICMOS grisms.
Finally we wish to thank the NICMOS Cooling System (NCS) team and everybody involved with the servicing mission SM3B for design, installation and working of the NICMOS Cooling system.
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