Hubble Deep Field South ("HDF_SOUTH")

A second Hubble Deep Field campaign was carried out between late September and October of 1998. The field is located in the Southern Continuous Viewing Zone. As was the case for HDF-N, approximately 150 consecutive orbits were devoted to a single telescope pointing. Additional flanking field observations were made surrounding the deep STIS, WFPC2 and NICMOS fields. The raw, pipeline calibrated and reprocessed data were released to the community on November 23, 1998. The rationale for undertaking a second deep field campaign followed from the wealth of information that has come out of HDF-N, and from the desire to provide a point of focus for similar studies of the distant universe from southern-hemisphere facilities. The wide public access to the HDF-N data stimulated extensive followup observations across the electromagnetic spectrum, both from major ground-based observatories and from other satellites.