WFPC2 Contingency Contamination Plan After release, WFPC2 will be recovered from Protect Safemode to Hold via stored commanding. ... After a successful RAM verification, the SMS will transition WFPC2 to Protect Decon. No observations or cool-down of the chips during BEA. Health & Safety Protect Recover to Hold, RAM verification, transition to Protect Decon Safemode End of BEA After the BEA, release plus 12 days, WFPC2 will leave protect decon and the chips will be cooled down to ­88 degrees. ...

Next: Release of 1 July Up: Old Releases Previous: Release of 12 January Contents . ... 14Sep1999 RCW. ... Added catalog plotting capability Franco and RCW sep99. ... Check for duplicate channels came before all channel info was known in some cases. ... Issue warnings about the output data rate through the FIR. ... This limit is higher than the output data rate limit for 2 or more baseband channels, but can be the limiting factor with 1 channel. ... Warning added 19Jan2000 RCW. ... 4 April 2000 RCW. ...

Data from the 15 square degree region centered on l = 192 , b = -2 covered by McIntyre et al. 2015 and described in that paper. The data is split into low and high velocity cubes following the two frequency bands of the Mock spectrometers. Low velocity cube . High velocity cube . ... All cubes are 4 4 , aligned in RA and Dec, and cover -2630 19655 km/s. Cube centers are in RA and Dec (J2000), with Galactic coordinates given for reference. ... J0513+21 (l=183 b=-11) - 853 MB . ...

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... In such cases the old bad pixel tables were used. ... 1 XMM­Newton CCF Release XMM­ CCF ­REL­61 Page: 2 4 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag EPN BADPIX 0021 2000 ­06­11T03:00:00 BADPIX YES ( post facto ) EPN BADPIX 0022 2000 ­06­29T02:49:00 BADPIX YES ( post facto ) EPN BADPIX 0023 2000 ­07­03T12:00:00 BADPIX YES ( post facto ) EPN ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

... 06.03.2001 . ... March 06 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The OC "Mir" operations scheduled for March 05 are complete. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the Complex arrays generate enough electricity, the thermal mode is normal. Command complex was powered on and command software was entered in tne cause of communication sessions, pressure was equalized in pneumatic and hydrobus fuel tanks of the joint propulsion system of the core block of OC "Mir". ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

... The following changes have been initiated by user feedback: . ... SAOtng command line options can be stored as csh-style environment variables in the ~/.saotng file. ... See SAOtng Command Line Options for more information. ... See SAOtng Colormap Considerations for more information. ... We have added the ability for SAOtng to resize image frame #1 each time a new image is loaded (as did SAOimage). ... See Autoflip of Images for more information. ... See Marker Analysis in SAOtng for more...

EMERGENCY ENCLOSURE CLOSING . ... In general, emergency systems/procedures have been put in place for electrical power failure and/or for enclosure controller/ motor drive failure. ... In the event the emergency generator fails to start or generate power, use procedure 3.0 for motor drive/controller failure except, you will need to plug the 2 winches into the portable Kubota generator which is stored in the garage. ... AT EACH WINCH, PULL BACK THE HUB DRIVE TO RELEASE THE CABLE DRUM. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . about the launch of Soyuz TMA-5 . ... A Russian manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-5 developed and manufactured at the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia was launched to the International Space Station (ISS), in low-Earth orbit since November 1998. The launch of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft took place at 7:06:28 Moscow Daylight Saving Time. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Primary Mirror after being stripped and recoated in 3-layer protected silver (NiCr-Ag-NiCr) on 12 September 2009. image: CIMG7901.jpg . ... Primary Mirror held by (yellow) handling tool being lifted off transport container (note the tennis balls it rested on), to be put on wash cart during unpacking at VISTA on 29 March 2008. image: P1060207.jpg (taken 29/03/08) . ... VISTA Mirror Blank: Shape of 4m primary mirror blank being tested at Schott Glas in Germany. image: M1_shape_checking-300dpi.jpg . ...

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

This image taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on the left "eye" of a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the left-rear side of the Curiosity rover is one-half of full resolution. The clear dust cover that protected the camera during landing has been sprung open. Part of the spring that released the dust cover can be seen at the bottom right, near the rover's wheel. On the top left, part of the rover's power supply is visible. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VLSS . ... To facilitate access for UK and European users, MRAO is providing a UK Mirror of the VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS), which is being produced in the US jointly by NRAO and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). ... A catalog of discrete sources on these images created by fitting a elliptical Guassians to all sources detected at the 5 sigma level or higher. ... This survey contains publicly available images and catalog information on over 1.8 million radio...

The Dunes Of Mars . ... Credit Copyright: Mars Global Surveyor Project , MSSS , JPL , NASA Explanation: The North Pole of Mars is ringed by a "sea of sand dunes". For Mars' Northern Hemisphere, Spring began in mid July and increased sunlight is now shrinking the polar cap revealing the wind-swept dunes to the cameras onboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. ... Near the end of January 1999 Summer will begin and offer even clearer views of Northern dunes of Mars . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... April 7, 1998 . Return To Cydonia . Credit: Mars Global Surveyor Project , NASA . Explanation: Yesterday the Mars Global Surveyor project released a new close-up image of a portion of the Cydonia region on Mars. ... The rock formation visible is the famous feature seen as the "Face on Mars" in 1976 Viking orbiter images. ... Mars Global Surveyor is scheduled to take other images of the Cydonia region and the Mars Pathfinder and Viking landing sites this month. ... About APOD > . ...