A second Hubble Deep Field campaign was carried out between late September and October of 1998. The raw, pipeline calibrated and reprocessed data were released to the community on November 23, 1998. The primary purpose of the test was to ensure that the guide stars to be used for the full campaign were acceptable, but an initial reconnaissance of the field was also carried out. Information on the QSO can be found in papers by Sealey et al. As was the case for HDF-N, approximately 150 consecutive orbits were devoted to a single telescope pointing.
North is up and East is left.
Note that the figure is for illustrative purposes only. The overlaid positions of the STIS and WFPC2 fields is accurate only to a few arcsec. Click on the image to get a larger scale view of the field. The figure shows the tentative HDF-S flanking field arrangement as laid out several months before the campaign, overlaid on an image extracted from the Digitized Sky Survey. Note that the figure is for illustrative purposes only.