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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 17 April 2009 9.00am EDT

During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.

A real-time procedure was completed on Apr 10 to update the on-board ephemeris. A second procedure was conducted on Apr 17 to perform a routine diagnostic dump of the Central Processing Electronics.

A Chandra press release was issued on April 16 announcing the discovery of the most crowded collision of galaxy clusters. The result was obtained by combining information from three different telescopes and provides an opportunity to study a triple galaxy merger for the first time. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/09_releases/press_041609.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of NGC 4051 coordinated with the VLA.

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Abell 1795 (2 obs)     ACIS-S       Apr 20
Abell 1795             ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
Eta Car                ACIS-S/HETG  Apr 21
V1647 Ori              ACIS-I
NGC 4051               ACIS-S       Apr 22
Capella                HRC-S/LETG
Capella                ACIS-S/HETG
Abell 1795             ACIS-I
F15462-0450            ACIS-S       Apr 23
Radiation Belts
Tycho's SNR            ACIS-I
Radiation Belts                     Apr 26
Eta Car                ACIS-S/HETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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