Telescope Spectroscopic Observations of the Ejecta of SN 1987 A at 2000 Days 1

We have used the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the spectra of SN 1987A over the wavelength range 2000 – 8000 Å on dates 1862 and 2210 days after the supernova outburst. Even these pre-COSTAR observations avoid much of the contamination from the bright stars nearby and provide a very useful set of line strengths and shapes for Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA, inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555 Also Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Beijing 100080, P. R. China Affiliated to the Astrophysics Division, Space Science Department of ESA.