CASB Report March 2003

 

Highlights for Division Meeting

·         None

 

Community Affairs and Communications

·         Planning visit to OATo in April for GSC-2 management meeting

 

Project Management and Technical Infrastructure

·         Greene, Hanley, Loomis and McLean attended the .NET/web services class held at JHU.

·         Repeated OS crashes of database server causing concerns – CPT are investigating patches.

 

MISSION SUPPORT

HST Operations

·         Investigated 9 bad guide star alerts, and 1 failed STIS acquisition. The failed acquisition was due to high proper motion of the Guide Star.

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

 
NVO Development Studies

·         See NVO report

 
NGST Development Studies

·         Reviewed drafts of two documents, “The Suitability of GSC-2 as a Source for JWST Guide Stars” by Kriss and “Meeting the 95% Guide Star Acquisition Rate for JWST with GSC2” by Nelan. The conclusion is that the final GSC2 as planned is sufficient.

 

                                      DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY

Plate Scanning

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

 
GAMMA Microdensitometer Systems

·         GAMMA1 replacement A/D converter has been identified and ordered. Downtime expected to be several weeks. Scanning continuing on GAMMA2.

 
Data Compression/CD Production

·         Nominal

 

GSC-II

COMPASS Database

·         As of 31-March-2003 the COMPASS database contained 2,205,362,290 unique object index entries.  At this time, 6273 GSC2 plates are loaded and 6034 GSC2 plates are matched.

·         Database Schema updated to support new version of GSPC2 and SKYMAP

 

Plate Processing

·         Nominal

 

Calibrations

·         Completed archive of GSPC2 observations and DSS images

·         Formatting error in latest GSPC2 under investigation

 

Science

·         No report

 

                                          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

842, 90%

842, 90%

POSS-I O

15

XO

936

670, 72%

670, 72%

559, 60%

108, 12%

10, 1%

POSS-QV

25

N

611

Completed

Completed

541, 88%

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%