HST Observations of Solar Bodies Which solar bodies ended up in the field of view of an HST instrument while it was observing? Whether planned or by pure chance, small solar-system bodies or dwarf planets might have been observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. With this service you might find that out! Please see the full description at the bottom of this page.

Finding astronomical data for a moving target might turn out to be tricky: because of the time dependency of their positions the usual name resolver servers (like NED and SIMBAD) cannot be used. In order to help the Hubble Space Telescope archive researchers, the ST-ECF has developed a new user interface specifically tailored to the search of solar bodies, but at the same time with the same look and feel of the classical HST Archive Interface

We set up a precompiled database of solar bodies which happen to fall in the field of view of any archived Hubble observation . The users can in this way use a search by name as it is customary for galactic and extragalactic objects. The output format can be chosen between HTML and VOTable format.

The HST solar bodies search is also integrated with our preview service so that the CDS Aladin tool can be fed with both the preview image and the skybot-extracted information, for a nice overlay.