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  :description "Archive of materials posted to sci.astro.hubble, part of USENET

Group Charter - sci.astro.hubble

The groups primary goal is to serve as a discussion forum for the processing
and reduction of data taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.  It was originally
intended that emphasis would be given to the extraction of useful scientific 
information from HST data, instead of the emphasis on producing cosmetically 
pleasing imagery that has prevailed in the mission history so far.  In
reality the group has become an instrument for the dissemination of
information about the periodic operations and status of HST, although recent
interest by the STSDAS users committee may revitalise the original goal.

The newsgroup is intended to complement the substantial efforts of the Space
Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, where support of the many users of
the facility originates.  The group will serve as a platform for problems,
requests, suggestions and needs of the scientific community as they use the
Telescope to further their research.  Accordingly input from the Institute to
the discussions will be vital, and several members of that facility have
indicated their interest and willingness to participate fully.

Since the level of the discussion may become rather complicated, and
considering the gravity of the information that will be discussed, there has
been general agreement that the newsgroup should be moderated.  The main reason
for this is that although sci.astro is already a forum for astronomical
subjects, the contributions to that group are held to be too broad to allow the
kind of discussion necessary for this group.  The many diverse topics covered
in the general group would hinder efforts for interested researchers to quickly
appraise the latest subjects of discussion.

The name was chosen to be sci.astro.hubble for a number of reasons.  First,
many sites do not carry alt groups at all, and we would like to make the group
as easily accessible as possible.  Second, the suffix hubble is a lot more
explanatory to the unitiated than hst, allowing the general USENET community to
quickly determine whether they would like to subscribe to this group or not.

Paul Scowen (scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu) volunteered to be the initial moderator 
of this group to allow only material pertinent to the forum to be distributed,
minimising the bandwidth that certain contributors have been so \"concerned\"
about.  Interest has been shown by people at the Institute to assume the
moderatorship if the group becomes successful in its goal, augmenting the
existing user information facilities there (STEIS, etc.).

Additional concerns expressed by personnel at the Institute have been noted,
such that no article stating something as fact will be posted to the newsgroup
until the fact can be substantiated elsewhere.  This is intended to stop the
proliferation of misinformation in an already complex field.

Submission of Articles

All candidate articles should be submitted to the newsgroup in the regular
manner, or directly emailed to the following address: sah@wfpc3.la.asu.edu

Any requests, questions or concerns about the activities of the group should be
directed to the following address: scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu

The files of type gif used in the index were:
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/eta_carina.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/hstori.doc
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/hstori.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/jupiter.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/mars.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/mars.txt
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/marsb.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/marsg.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/marsr.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/n1275.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/ngc2440.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/ngc4261.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/ngc4261.txt
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/orib.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/orig.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/orir.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/satws.doc
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/satws1.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/satws2.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/satws3.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/satws4.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/satws5.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/satws6.gif
   /disk1/anonymous/pub/sci.astro.hubble/gifs/satwsp.gif
"
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