·
None
· Ron Drimmel from OATo visited June 9-14. He presented a JC talk on the effects of crowding and object misclassification on the GSC-II starcounts.
· Planning visits to STScI by Lattanzi/Bucciarelli (July/August) and Spagna/Carollo (September/October)
·
Finalizing agreement with Southern Stars Systems
to incorporate DSS2 images into a new amateur astronomy product.
· Server to replace CHART has been received and awaiting CPT installation. Associated RAID arrays to hold CASB image archive have been ordered.
· Scheduled with CPT to migrate CASB web pages to Zope server. CHART will continue to be a back-end server for GSC/DSS webservices.
· Ongoing problems with Halon system control panel in the GSOPS area. Facilities are working the problem.
· Discovered and reset default permissions on Snapservers so that Unix users could not longer delete files.
· Successfully read 2MASS DLT tapes – took longer than expected since there is no public DLT7000 drive outside of the SOGS firewall.
· Investigated 7 bad guide star alerts.
· Continued to develop software to update the keywords of the header files.
· HUGS2 test plan outlined. Detailed plan in development.
· Revisions to GSC 2.3 export code to support NGSS in progress
·
See NVO report
· Continued scanning the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.
· GAMMA1 A/D board under construction. Downtime expected to be another few weeks.
· Scanning continuing on GAMMA2 following mechanical maintenance and adjustments.
· Continued processing the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.
Calibrations
Survey |
Μ |
Prefix |
Total |
SCANS Total & % |
COMPRESS Total & % |
PROCESS Total
& % |
DBLOAD
Total
& %
|
DBMATCH
Total & %
|
POSS-I E |
25/15 |
XE |
936 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
929, 99.3% |
903, 96.5% |
POSS-I O |
15 |
XO |
936 |
761,81% |
761, 81% |
761, 81% |
366, 39% |
338, 36% |
POSS-QV |
25 |
N |
611 |
Completed |
Completed |
607, 99.3% |
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 |
888, 99.8% |
835, 93.8% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
878, 98.2% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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% |