1.1.1 Field-of-View

The WFPC2 field-of-view is divided into four cameras by a four-faceted pyramid mirror near the HST focal plane. Each of the four cameras contains an 800x800 pixel Loral CCD detector. Three cameras operate at an image scale of 0.1" per pixel (F/12.9) and comprise the Wide Field Camera (WFC) with an "L" shaped field-of-view. The fourth camera operates at 0.046" per pixel (F/28.3) and is referred to as the Planetary Camera (PC). There are thus four sets of relay optics and CCD sensors in WFPC2. The four cameras are called PC1, WF2, WF3, and WF4, and their fields-of-view are illustrated in Figure 1.1 (see also Section 7.8). Each image is a mosaic of three F/12.9 images and one F/28.3 image.

Figure 1.1: WFPC2 Field-of-View Projected on the Sky. The readout direction is marked with arrows near the start of the first row in each CCD. The X-Y coordinate directions are for POS-TARG commands. The position angle of V3 varies with pointing direction and observation epoch, and is given in the calibrated science header by keyword PA_V3.