Friday 13 November 2009 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
A real-time procedure was completed on Nov 11 to update the on-board ephemeris. A Chandra press release was issued on Nov 10 describing a never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy. In celebration of this International Year of Astronomy, NASA is releasing images of the galactic center region as seen by its Great Observatories to more than 150 planetariums, museums, nature centers, libraries, and schools across the country. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/09_releases/press_111009.html The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below |
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Radiation Belts Nov 15
M31 HRC-I Nov 16
S255/S257 ACIS-I
NGC4596 ACIS-S
Abell2199 ACIS-I Nov 17
Abell2061 ACIS-I
1303-827 ACIS-S Nov 18
Radiation Belts
RRLyr ACIS-S
Capella ACIS-S/HETG Nov 19
Abell2199 ACIS-I
Capella HRC-S /LETG
S255/S257 ACIS-I Nov 20
ZwCl5247 ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
GRB091020 ACIS-S Nov 21
NGC6362 ACIS-S
2MASSJ19270649+0123 ACIS-S Nov 22
M31 ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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