A&A 574, A123 (2015) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201423830 & c ESO 2015 Astrophysics Pre-hibernation performances of the OSIRIS cameras onboard the Rosetta spacecraft S. Magrin1;2, F. La Forgia2, V. Da Deppo3, M. Lazzarin2, I. Bertini1, F. Ferri1, M. Pajola1, M. Barbieri1, G. Naletto1;4, C. Barbieri1;2, C. Tubiana5, M. Küppers6, S. Fornasier7;8, L. Jorda9, and H. Sierks5 1 Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attivitá Spaziali “Giuseppe Colombo”, University of Padova, via Venezia 15, 35131 Padova, Italy e-mail:
[email protected] 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova, vicolo dell’Osservatorio 3, 35122 Padova, Italy 3 CNR-IFN UOS Padova LUXOR, via Trasea 7, 35131 Padova, Italy 4 Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy 5 Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 6 European Space Astronomy Centre, ESA, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain 7 LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ. Paris Diderot, 5 Place J. Janssen, 92195 Meudon Pricipal Cedex, France 8 Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75205 Paris, France 9 Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS and Université de Provence, 38 rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 13388 Marseille, France Received 18 March 2014 / Accepted 6 December 2014 ABSTRACT Context. The ESA cometary mission Rosetta was launched in 2004. In the past years and until the spacecraft hibernation in June 2011, the two cameras of the OSIRIS imaging system (Narrow Angle and Wide Angle Camera, NAC and WAC) observed many different sources.