HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4901 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 3 - 5am August 4, 2009 (DOY 215/09:00z-216/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS 11465 ACS CCD Monitoring and Calibration for WFC3 This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program, designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CAL proposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frames needed to generate reference files ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT    #4899 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 30 - 5am July 31, 2009 (DOY 211/09:00z-212/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS 11465 ACS CCD Monitoring and Calibration for WFC3 This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program, designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CAL proposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frames needed to generate reference files for calibratin ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4898 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 29 - 5am July 30, 2009 (DOY 210/09:00z-211/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED COS 11474 COS NUV Internal/External Wavelength Scales Observe external radial velocity standard targets (preferably, though not required, in CVZ) in TIME-TAG (FLASH=YES) mode with as many grating and central wavelength combinations as feasible. The purpose is to obtain zero-point offsets for the wav ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4897 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 28 - 5am July 29, 2009 (DOY 209/09:00z-210/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS 11465 ACS CCD Monitoring and Calibration for WFC3 This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program, designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CAL proposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frames needed to generate reference files for calibrating science data, a ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4896 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 27 - 5am July 28, 2009 (DOY 208/09:00z-209/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED COS 11478 COS NUV Flat Fields Acquire long NUV flat field exposures using the internal deuterium calibration lamp with the G185M grating. Use central wavelengths of 1835 angstroms, 1850 angstroms, and 1864 angstroms. Based on data taken during thermal vacuum testing in 2003 (Test 1750), a total of 65,000 seconds of data should ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4895 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 24 - 5am July 27, 2009 (DOY 205/09:00z-208/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED STIS/CCD 11850 CCD Sparse Field CTE Internal CTE measurements are made using the "internal sparse field test", along the parallel axis. The "POS=" optional parameter, introduced during cycle 11, is used to provide off- center MSM positionings of some slits. All exposures are internals. STIS/CCD 11849 STIS C ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4888 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 15 - 5am July 16, 2009 (DOY 196/0900z-197/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED COS 11469 COS NUV Optics Alignment and Focus This program has stringent guide star and timing requirements. Refer to the observing description section for complete details. This program determines the fine focus using NUV MIRRORA exposures of the same target as COS08 (program 11468 - COS to FGS Alignment (NUV)). This program must ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science   DAILY REPORT       #4887 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 14 - 5am July 15, 2009 (DOY 195/0900z-196/0900z)   OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED   ACS 11465   ACS CCD monitoring and calibration for WFC   This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program,designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CALproposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frame ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4886 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 13 - 5am July 14, 2009 (DOY 194/0900z-195/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED COS 11469 COS NUV Optics Alignment and Focus This program has stringent guide star and timing requirements. Refer to the observing description section for complete details. This program determines the fine focus using NUV MIRRORA exposures of the same target as COS08 (program 11468 - COS to FGS ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT    #4885 PERIOD COVERED: 5am July 10 - 5am July 13, 2009 (DOY 191/0900z-194/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFC3 11808 WFC3 UVIS Bowtie Monitor The UVIS detector was observed during ground testing to occasionally exhibit flat field and dark variations with a bowtie pattern. These variations are most significant as ~1% flat field (gain) variations across the field of view. It is believed that this represents a state or ...Continue Reading