EUVE Status Information

Status Reports from Previous Months

Also, see the latest EUVE Newsletter for recent satellite status information and announcements.

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:

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  Target          SpT         GMT Start        PI         T  Notes
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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
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  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

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