Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Skip to content

IHW COMET HALLEY LSPN IMAGE DATA V1.0

Metadata Updated: August 22, 2025

NASA's International Halley Watch (IHW) has created a Comet Halley Archive. The collection of data spans the full wavelength range as submitted by scientists to the IHW. The observations belong to one of the following Disciplines: Amateur, Astrometry, Infrared Studies, Large-Scale Phenomena, Meteor Studies, Near-Nucleus Studies, Photometry and Polarimetry, Radio Studies, and Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometry. The data collected by these nine disciplines were augmented by Spacecraft measurements. The data were submitted to IHW, but the evaluation and selection for the Archive has been the primary responsibility of the Discipline Specialist Teams for each network in cooperation with the Lead Center. The data from the Large-Scale Phenomena Network has been compressed images of Halley and 173 data used for calibration. The calibration data consists of the following: laboratory data (CALIBRATION_SPOTS, PHOTOMETRY WEDGE), standard stars (STDSTARS, STAND_ STAR, AQR STAND, COMA STAND), and open clusters (NGC1039, NGC1817). These compressed images, spanning dates 1985 September 21 through 1987 April 25 comprise the first 18 volumes (Image Data) of the IHW Chronological Data Archive Collection. A set of subsampled or 'browse' images covering the same date range is on volumes 19 trough 23 (Mixed Data) of the IHW Chronological Data Archive Collection. In addition to the digital archive, 'The International Halley Watch Atlas of large-Scale Phenomena' (Brandt, John C., Niedner, Malcolm B. Jr., Rahe, Jurgen, 1992) provides many analogue images of the data in both black and white and color representation.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

Downloads & Resources

References

https://pds.nasa.gov

Dates

Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
Identifier urn:nasa:pds:context_pds3:data_set:data_set.ihw-c-lspn-2-didr-halley-v1.0_bsbc-p7hr
Data First Published 2018-06-26
Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 89e3365d-3640-4992-9521-f551e22a035e
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://pds.nasa.gov/ds-view/pds/viewDataset.jsp?dsid=IHW-C-LSPN-2-DIDR-HALLEY-V1.0
Program Code 026:005
Related Documents https://pds.nasa.gov
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash e00fc79ee4fe35c5f669d32fbbcee1bc09be6af1731a177c3fd39e704c8575cd
Source Schema Version 1.1

Didn't find what you're looking for? Suggest a dataset here.