CASB Report May 2003

 

Highlights for Division Meeting

·         None

 

Community Affairs and Communications

·         Conducted several tours of Plate Vault and Scanning facilities

·         Planning visits to STScI by Drimmel (June), Lattanzi/Bucciarelli (July/August) and Spagna/Carollo (September/October)

 

Project Management and Technical Infrastructure

·         Purchase requisition generated for server to replace CHART and RAID arrays to hold CASB image archive

·         Discussions held with CPT to migrate CASB web pages to Zope server. CHART will continue to be a back-end server for GSC/DSS webservices.

·         Received advance copy of 2MASS final release catalogs

·         Redefined GSC 2.3 release properties, defined GSC 2.4 and 2.5 versions and updated project schedule.

 

MISSION SUPPORT

HST Operations

·         Investigated 18 bad guide star alerts.

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

·         HUGS2 test plan under development

·         Revisions to GSC 2.3 export code to support NGSS in progress

 
NVO Development Studies

·         See NVO report

 
NGST Development Studies

 

                                      DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY

Plate Scanning

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

 
GAMMA Microdensitometer Systems

·         GAMMA1 A/D board awaiting construction. Downtime expected to be another 4-6 weeks. Knute is busy in lab with IRMOS

·         Scanning continuing on GAMMA2.

 
Data Compression/CD Production

 

GSC-II

COMPASS Database

·         Software bug discovered in catalog matching code – new code under development
·         Database region QA discovered isolated regions with serious object matching failures – under investigation
·         As of 31-March-2003 the COMPASS database contained 2,205,362,290 unique object index entries.  At this time, 6531 GSC2 plates are loaded and 6200 GSC2 plates are matched.

 

Plate Processing

 

Calibrations

 

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

930, 99%

929, 99%

POSS-I O

15

XO

936

754,80%

751, 80%

682, 73%

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

Completed

860, 97%

860, 97%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Completed

Completed

859, 97%

859, 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%