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High Resolution Imaging of Pluto and Charon with the Faint Object Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope

Albrecht, R.

Images of the Pluto-Charon system were obtained with the Faint Object Camera (FOC) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) with the aim of determination of radii, fluxes, and albedos. The resolution of the already diffraction limited images was further improved by image restoration, yielding indications of surface albedo distributions which are qualit…