CASB Report December 2003

 

Highlights for Division Meeting

 

Community Affairs and Communications

·         Provided CASB Plate vault tour to NASA HQ and Congressional staffers

 

Project Management and Technical Infrastructure

 

MISSION SUPPORT

HST Operations

·         Investigated 5 bad guide star alerts.  Continuing trend of more failures due to proper motion.

·         Continued to develop software to update the keywords of the header files.

 
NVO Development Studies

·         See NVO report

 
NGST Development Studies

 

                                      DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY

Plate Scanning

·         Continued scanning the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.

 
GAMMA Microdensitometer Systems

·         GAMMA1 A/D board under construction.

 
Data Compression/CD Production

·         Continued processing the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.

 

Data Archive

·         Migration of VMS media to new RAID arrays in progress

 

GSC-II

COMPASS Database

·         Total Number of unique sources in the GCS2 database = 1,127,192,324

·         Total Number of sources in the GSC23 Export catalog =   939,596,556

·         Skymap matching completed
·         Export code being updated to include SkyMap objects
·         QA of export also in progress
·         Identified and fixed bug in export code which was incorrectly filtering out a number of computed proper motions, particularly in the southern hemisphere.

 

Plate Processing

·         Continued processing the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.

 

Calibrations

 

Science

 

                                         

 

 

Appendix – CASB Statistical Summary

 

PLATE PROCESSING STATUS

Survey

Μ

Prefix

Total

SCANS

Total & %

COMPRESS   Total & %

PROCESS Total & %

DBLOAD
Total & %
DBMATCH Total & %

POSS-I E

25/15

XE

936

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

POSS-I O

15

XO

936

830,89%

830, 89%

830, 89%

366, 39%

338, 36%

POSS-QV

25

N

611

Completed

Completed

Completed

195, 32%

95, 16%

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

890

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

894

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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%