– Data handbooks released yesterday
• Major update, now modular (separate “books” for different instruments), and available both in PDF and HTML
• Kudos to the team, including Bahram Mobasher, Jennifer Mack,
Tom Brown, Sylvia Baggett, Matt McMaster, Mark Dickinson,
Ed Nelan, Russ Makidon, Susan Rose, and Jim Younger
– New NICMOS web site online
– work about to start on FGS/OSG and HD internal site
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• SMOV
– Science enabled:
• FGS astrometry
• STIS 3/27 (CCD & MAMA)
• WFPC2 3/27
• ACS basic ccd science 4/6 – SBC 5/6
• NICMOS 4/24
• Cycle-11 Calibration plan
– Work beginning now
– Director’s office review early May
– Phase-2 proposals mid May
• Calibration workshop
– October, 2002 coordinated with ADASS
• Either as part of ADASS (downtown), or tacked on to the end (held at
STScI).
• Need volunteers for organizing committee
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– Anton Koekemoer coordinating
– Coordinate near-term testing
– Develop road map for dither package evolution
• Study of Hubble Archive & Reprocessing Enhancements
• Future of Archive Services at Space Telescope
– Implementation study to begin, led by Chris Blades
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• Unofficially: call for proposals likely to be released
October 2002
• proposals due Jan 24, 2003
• Execution starts July 2003
• Compressed schedule will reduced time from proposal to receipt of data, but also poses a challenge when rolling out APT
– APT
• Rollout of NICMOS & STIS exposure-time calculators in June
– Common background model for all instruments
• Phase-1 tools to be released in June
– Incorporation of help facility requires coordination with HD on documentation
• Orbit planner prototype testing underway
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