CASB Report January 2003

 

Highlights for Division Meeting

·         none

 
Community Affairs and Communications

·         McLean and Rosenberg attended the AAS meeting in Seattle

·         Amy Rosenberg graduated (with honors) from Towson State University.

·         Supported several tours of plate vault and GS operations area

 

Project Management and Technical Infrastructure

·         CASB servers had downtime for application of service packs following SQLserver attack.

 

MISSION SUPPORT

HST Operations

·         Investigated 8 bad guide star alerts. 

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

·         Delivered GSC 2.2.1 and access software to NGSS software development team to support HUGS2 planning and development.

·         Rectangular field query tool in development

 
NVO Development Studies
 
NGST Development Studies

·         Discussed strategies for obtaining deeper target images to update GSC-II as JWST guide star catalog.

 

                                      DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY

Plate Scanning

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

 
GAMMA Microdensitometer Systems

·         GAMMA1 and GAMMA2 continues to operate smoothly. 

 
Data Compression/CD Production

·         Completed identification of corrupted DSS data on NAS and almost completed data replacement and verification

·         Developed revised plan for image archive media migration.

 

GSC-II

COMPASS Database

·         As of 31-Jan-2003 the COMPASS database contained 1,053,282,021 unique object index entries.  At this time 6034 GSC2 plates are loaded and 5684 GSC2 plates are matched.

 

Plate Processing

 

Calibrations

·         Latest version of GSPC2 has been delivered from OATo and is being loaded into COMPASS

·         All available reduced GSPC2 CCD frames at STScI have been loaded onto NAS raidarray – identifying where missing data is located (OATo and/or GEMINI)

 

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

603, 65%

459, 50%

POSS-I O

15

XO

936

635, 68%

470, 50%

559, 60%

108, 12%

10, 1%

POSS-QV

25

N

611

Completed

Completed

400, 65%

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%