HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4926 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 8 - 5am September 9, 2009 (DOY 251/09:00z-252/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 12003 The Impact Event on Jupiter in 2009 An image of Jupiter taken on 19 July 2009 at 15 UT showed an anomalous feature in the southern hemisphere. The world-wide community responded with observations, and the subsequent data strongly suggest that an impact occurred during the 8 hou ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4925 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 4 - 5am September 8, 2009 (DOY 247/09:00z-251/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFC3/UVIS 11935 UVIS G280 Wavelength Calibration Wavelength calibration of the UVIS G280 grism will be established using observations of the Wolf Rayet star WR14. Accompanying direct exposures will provide wavelength zeropoints for dispersed exposures. The calibrations will be obtained at th ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4924 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 3 - 5am September 4, 2009 (DOY 246/09:00z-247/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11880 External CTE Monitor This program will obtain a direct calibration of photometric losses due to imperfect CTE by imaging stars in 47 Tuc. COS/FUV 11482 FUV Detector Dark Measure the FUV detector dark rate by taking long science exposures with no light on the detector. The de ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4923 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 2 - 5am September 3, 2009 (DOY 245/09:00z-246/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11879 CCD Daily Monitor (Part 1) This program comprises basic tests for measuring the read noise and dark current of the ACS WFC and for tracking the growth of hot pixels. The recorded frames are used to create bias and dark reference images for science data reduction and calibratio ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4922 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 1 - 5am September 2, 2009 (DOY 244/09:00z-245/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11882 CCD Hot Pixel Annealing All the data for this program is acquired using internal targets (lamps) only, so all of the exposures should be taken during Earth occultation time (but not during SAA passages). This program emulates the ACS pre-flight ground calibration and pos ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4921 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 31 - 5am September 1, 2009 (DOY 243/09:00z-244/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 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 refere ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4920 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 28 - 5am August 31, 2009 (DOY 240/09:00z-243/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFC3/IR 11915 IR Internal Flat Fields This program is the same as 11433 (SMOV) and depends on the completion of the IR initial alignment (program 11425). This version contains three instances of 37 internal orbits; to be scheduled early, middle, and near the end of Cycle 17, in order to use the ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4918 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 26 - 5am August 27, 2009 (DOY 238/09:00z-239/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 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 referenc ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4917 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 25 - 5am August 26, 2009 (DOY 237/09:00z-238/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11013 Continued M31 Monitoring for Black Hole X-ray Nova We have been caring out a Chandra (GO+GTO) and HST (GO) program to find Black Hole X-ray Nova (BHXN) and their optical counterparts in M31 for several years. To date we have found >2 dozen BHXN and 3 HST optical counterpa ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4916 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 24 - 5am August 25, 2009 (DOY 236/09:00z-237/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 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 referenc ...Continue Reading