November 3rd 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4963 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 30 - 5am November 2, 2009 (DOY 303/09:00z-306/10:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED COS/FUV 11997 FUV Internal/External Wavelength Scale Monitor This program monitors the offsets between the wavelength scale set by the internal wavecal versus that defined by absorption lines in external targets. This is accomplished by observing two external targets in the SMC: SK191 with G130 ...Continue Reading
October 31st 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4962 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 29 - 5am October 30, 2009 (DOY 302/09:00z-303/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC 11689 Direct Observations of Dark Matter from a Second Bullet: The Spectacular Abell 2744 Vigorous cluster mergers provide a unique opportunity to directly "see" dark matter and to probe its properties through the analysis of the segregation of the baryonic and non-baryonic c ...Continue Reading
October 30th 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4961 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 28 - 5am October 29, 2009 (DOY 301/09:00z-302/09:00z) 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 calibration. ...Continue Reading
October 29th 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4960 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 27 - 5am October 28, 2009 (DOY 300/09:00z-301/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC 11689 Direct Observations of Dark Matter from a Second Bullet: The Spectacular Abell 2744 Vigorous cluster mergers provide a unique opportunity to directly "see" dark matter and to probe its properties through the analysis of the segregation of the baryonic and non-baryonic c ...Continue Reading
October 28th 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4959 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 26 - 5am October 27, 2009 (DOY 299/09:00z-300/09:00z) 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 calibration. ...Continue Reading
October 27th 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4958 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 23 - 5am October 26, 2009 (DOY 296/09:00z-299/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFC3/IR/S/C 11929 IR Dark Current Monitor Analyses of ground test data showed that dark current signals are more reliably removed from science data using darks taken with the same exposure sequences as the science data, than with a single dark current image scaled by desired exposure time. The ...Continue Reading
October 24th 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4957 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 22 - 5am October 23, 2009 (DOY295/09:00z-296/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11788 The Architecture of Exoplanetary Systems Are all planetary systems coplanar? Concordance cosmogony makes that prediction. It is, however, a prediction of extrasolar planetary system architecture as yet untested by direct observation for main sequence stars other than the Sun. To ...Continue Reading
October 23rd 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4956 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 21 - 5am October 22, 2009 (DOY294/09:00z-295/09:00z) 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 calibration. ...Continue Reading
October 22nd 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4955 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 20 - 5am October 21, 2009 (DOY293/09:00z-294/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11785 Trigonometric Calibration of the Distance Scale for Classical Novae The distance scale for classical novae is important for understanding the stellar physics of their thermonuclear runaways, their contribution to Galactic nucleosynthesis, and their use as extragalactic standard candle ...Continue Reading
October 21st 2009 PDT
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to Collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT #4954 PERIOD COVERED: 5am October 19 - 5am October 20, 2009 (DOY292/09:00z-293/09:00z) 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 calibra ...Continue Reading
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