CASB Report November
2002
· none
· Conrad Sturch retired on November 8th – he will be missed.
· Supported several tours of the plate vault and scanning facilities.
·
Updated GSC-II schedule estimates
· Investigated 3 bad guide star alerts. All turned out to be unresolved (on the Schmidt Plate) multiple star systems, classified in GSC1 as single stellar objects. The much higher angular resolution of the HST FGS is able to separate the closely spaced systems. Filed a Bad GS Alert for each of the GSs.
· Continued to develop software to update the keywords of the header files.
· Continued to develop web services for science demos.
· None.
· Continued scanning the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.
· Gamma 1 suffered a mechanical failure and will require some maintenance work.
· GAMMA2 continues to operate smoothly.
·
Identified
data corruption for a number of DSS images on the RaidTec
NAS device. Developed software to check all datafiles
and began program to replace bad data files.
·
Developing
revised plan for image archive media migration.
·
· proceeding.
·
The port of the object classifier application
from VMS to Windows 2000 has been completed and is now in testing.
Calibrations: Photometry (GSPC-II and DSS-I and -II)
· Reduction of last observing runs in progress
· None reported.
Survey |
Μ |
Prefix |
Total |
SCANS Total & % |
COMPRESS Total & % |
PROCESS Total
& % |
DBLOAD
Total
& %
|
DBMATCH
Total & %
|
POSS-I E |
25/15 |
XE |
936 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
472, 50% |
158, 17% |
POSS-I O |
15 |
XO |
936 |
635, 68% |
319, 34% |
559, 60% |
108, 12% |
10, 1% |
POSS-QV |
25 |
N |
611 |
Completed |
Completed |
254, 42% |
63, 10% |
6, 1% |
POSS-II J |
15 |
XJ |
897 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
POSS-II F |
15 |
XP |
897 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
POSS-II N |
15 |
XI/IN |
897 |
Completed |
Completed |
878, 98% |
845, 95% |
826, 92% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SERC-J/EJ |
25/15 |
S |
894 |
Completed |
Completed |
709, 79% |
709, 79% |
709, 79% |
AAO-SES/ER |
15 |
XS/ER |
894 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
740, 83% |
740, 83% |
AAO-SR |
15 |
GR |
116 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
UKSTU-SR |
15 |
RS |
112 |
50, 45% |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
SERC-QV |
15 |
XV |
94 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
90, 96% |
90, 96% |
UKST-I |
15 |
IS |
892 |
Completed |
890, 99% |
890, 99% |
890, 99% |
870, 97% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Special |
25 |
XX |
4 |
Completed |
Completed |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
Black Birch |
25 |
XB |
69 |
Completed |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
GPO Astrograph |
25 |
XG |
49 |
Completed |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |
0, 0% |