Status Reports from Previous Months
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The EUVE observatory continues to perform extremely well. During November and the first half of December 1997 the EUVE observatory completed and/or began observations of a number of Guest Observer (GO) and Right-Angle Program (RAP) targets as listed below. For each target is given its name, spectral type (generally from the SIMBAD database), the observation start day/time (day-of-year:hours:minutes), name of the Principal Investigator (PI), observation type/priority, and any relevant notes:
=============================================================================== Target SpT GMT Start PI T Notes =============================================================================== Saturn Planet 298:02:00 (25 Oct) Gladstone 1 EGO,MOV,MU1,TCO epsilon CMa B2Iab: 308:06:30 (04 Nov) Vallerga 1 PID MBM 12 MolCld 310:01:03 (06 Nov) Berghoefer 2 EGO,MU2,TCO BATSE 2852 GRB 310:01:03 (06 Nov) Hurley 3 RAP U Gem DwfNova 311:18:20 (07 Nov) Mauche 1 EGO,TOO Moon Moon 318:09:28 (14 Nov) Flynn 1 PID,CF1,MOV,MU3,SCA Moon Moon 318:14:12 (14 Nov) Edelstein 1 PID,CF2,CO1,MU4,MOV NGC 6434 AGN 318:14:12 (14 Nov) Fruscione 3 RAP Moon Moon 318:15:47 (14 Nov) Flynn 1 PID,CF1,MOV,MU3,SCA Diffuse Bkgd Bkgd 318:18:50 (14 Nov) Lampton 1 EGO,CF3,TCO RE J2107-05 CV:AM 318:18:50 (14 Nov) Howell 1 RAP Hale-Bopp Comet 321:22:32 (17 Nov) Mumma 1 EGO,CO2,MOV,TCO beta Cas F2IV 327:01:33 (23 Nov) Ayres 1 EGO NISM Downwind NISM 341:06:21 (07 Dec) Flynn 1 EGO,CF4,MU5,TCO Slew Tests ---- 341:18:46 (07 Dec) ------ - EN1 Survey ---- 342:02:37 (07 Dec) ------ - EN2 NISM Downwind NISM 342:07:36 (08 Dec) Flynn 1 EGO,CF4,MU5,TCO EUVE J1137+510 NOID 342:07:36 (08 Dec) Lampton 3 RAP MBM 12 MolCld 342:18:39 (08 Dec) Berghoefer 2 EGO,ALT,MU6,TCO ALEXIS Transient NOID 345:17:34 (11 Dec) Bloch 1 EGO,MU7 2EUVE J0632-05.0 WD:DA 346:17:15 (12 Dec) Wolff 1 EGO EUVE J0113+624 NOID 346:17:15 (12 Dec) Lampton 3 RAP =============================================================================== Key to Notes: ALT = Alternate target observed instead of beta Cas to avoid thermally "hot" spacecraft attitude CF1 = Non-standard payload configuration: only Scanners B and C on, XY mode, only quadrant 3 unblanked, widened countrate shutdown parameters CF2 = Non-standard payload configuration: only long-wavelength spectrometer on, XY mode, widened countrate shutdown parameters CF3 = Non-standard payload configuration: Scanners A, B, and C off CF4 = Non-standard payload configuration: Scanner C off, XY mode CO1 = Observation coordinated with EURD satellite CO2 = Observation coordinated with ground-based telescopes EGO = EUVE Guest Observer observation EN1 = Engineering slew tests (low- and high-rates) EN2 = Engineering star tracker calibration observation MOV = Moving target MU1 = Multiple pointings (18) required for this observation MU2 = Multiple pointings (30) required for this observation MU3 = Multiple pointings (35; 7 pointings for each of 5 orbits) required for this observation MU4 = Multiple pointings (7 pointings, 1 orbit) required for this observation MU5 = Multiple pointings (15) required for this observation MU6 = Multiple pointings (15) required for this observation MU7 = Multiple pointings (3) required for this observation PID = PI Discretionary observation RAP = Right-Angle Program observation SCA = Scanning telescope (imaging) GO observation TCO = Time-critical observation TOO = Target of Opportunity observation