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    Herschel Science Centre Newsflash #4
               10 July 2009
        http://herschel.esac.esa.int/
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Herschel's 'first-light' observations
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Building on the experience of the 'sneak preview' all three Herschel
instruments have now  performed their initial first test observations.

These 'first-light' observations, including SPIRE imaging of the nearby  
galaxies M66 and M74, HIFI spectroscopy in three lines of the star-forming
region DR21, and PACS imaging spectroscopy in two lines of  the planetary
nebula NGC6543 are available at:

  http://herschel.esac.esa.int/FirstLight.shtml

You can follow Herschel progress on:
 
  http://herschel.esac.esa.int/latest_news.shtml

The Herschel Science Centre Helpdesk:
http://herschel.esac.esa.int/esupport/

The qualities of these images seem very good. I believe that we can get much new views from the coming images from Herschel. Is there any user manual or document about data reduction/pipeline?

      chih-hao

you can find all sort of user documents at Herschel's astronomers website:

http://herschel.esac.esa.int/