Two-color ultraviolet images of the globular cluster NGC 1851 were obt
ained with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) during the 1990 Dec
ember Astro-1 Spacelab mission. A total of 133 stars are detected at 2
490 angstrom and 74 stars at 1520 angstrom. An ultraviolet color-magni
tude diagram based on the 46 well-photometered stars that appear in bo
th images is presented. Thirty-nine of the 45 horizontal branch (HB) s
tars fall below the zero-age horizontal branch (ZAHB) of Z = 0.001 and
Y = 0.23 predicted by Sweigart by as much as 0.6 mag if the interstel
lar reddening to the cluster is E(B - V) = 0.02. Supporting ground-bas
ed V and B observations, however, show excellent correlation with the
same model ZAHB. A newly detected hot subdwarf star with T(eff) approx
imately 26,000 K appears to be an extreme horizontal branch star. The
measured flux for this star also falls approximately 0.6 mag below the
position on the CMD predicted by parameters derived from ground-based
spectroscopy by Landsman. The far-ultraviolet image is dominated by t
he ultraviolet-bright member star UV 5, which contributes 30% of the t
otal flux at 1520 angstrom. The UIT photometry is consistent with the
classification of UV 5 as a post-asymptotic giant branch (PAGB) star.
To a limit of 16.5 mag at 1520 angstrom we find no ultraviolet counter
part within 6'' of the position of the X-ray source MX 0513 - 40.