HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4538 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 31, 2008 (DOY 031) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11078 HST/FGS 1-Gyro On-Orbit Checkout This proposal uses an FGS as an astrometer to observe bright stars (V<12) in Position mode, with the two other FGSs operating as guiders. The data obtained by the astrometer will be used to "witness" the pointing performance of the Observatory in FineLock under 1-gyro oper ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT        # 4537 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 30, 2008 (DOY 030) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11078 HST/FGS 1-Gyro On-Orbit Checkout This proposal uses an FGS as an astrometer to observe bright stars (V<12) in Position mode, with the two other FGSs operating as guiders. The data obtained by the astrometer will be used to "witness" the pointing performance of the Observatory in FineLock under ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4536 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 29, 2008 (DOY 029) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11078 HST/FGS 1-Gyro On-Orbit Checkout This proposal uses an FGS as an astrometer to observe bright stars (V<12) in Position mode, with the two other FGSs operating as guiders. The data obtained by the astrometer will be used to "witness" the pointing performance of the Observatory in FineLock under 1-gyro oper ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4535 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 28, 2008 (DOY 028) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8795 NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 6 A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS. Dark frames will be obtained immediately upon exiting the SAA contour 23, and every time a NICMOS exposure is scheduled within 50 minutes of coming out of the SAA. The darks will be ...Continue Reading

*OGS KSP OOT Status Mtg, starts at 8:30-9am, B3/S107A * ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4534 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 25,26,27, 2007 (DOY 025,026,027) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8795 NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 6 A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS. Dark frames will be obtained immediately upon exiting the SAA contour 23, and every time a NICMOS exposure is scheduled within 50 minutes of coming out of the SAA. The ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4533 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 24, 2007 (DOY 024) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11211 An Astrometric Calibration of Population II Distance Indicators In 2002 HST produced a highly precise parallax for RR Lyrae. That measurement resulted in an absolute magnitude, M{V}= 0.61+/-0.11, a useful result, judged by the over ten refereed citations each year since. It is, however, unsatisfactory to have the ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4532 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 23, 2007 (DOY 023) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2 10889 The Nature of the Halos and Thick Disks of Spiral Galaxies We propose to resolve the extra-planar stellar populations of the thick disks and halos of seven nearby, massive, edge-on galaxies using ACS, NICMOS, and WFPC2 in parallel. These observations will provide accurate star counts and color-magnitude dia ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4531 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 22, 2007 (DOY 022) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 10798 Dark Halos and Substructure from Arcs & Einstein Rings The surface brightness distribution of extended gravitationally lensed arcs and Einstein rings contains super-resolved information about the lensed object, and, more excitingly, about the smooth and clumpy mass distribution of the lens galaxies. The source an ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT    # 4530 PERIOD COVERED: UT January 18,19,20,21, 2007 (DOY 018,019,020,021) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8795 NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 6 A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS. Dark frames will be obtained immediately upon exiting the SAA contour 23, and every time a NICMOS exposure is scheduled within 50 minutes of coming out of the SAA. The darks ...Continue Reading