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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 1 November 2019 9.00am EDT

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Oct 28 and Oct 31 to perform full-frame dark current readouts of the Aspect Camera Assembly CCD.

A Chandra image release was issued on Oct 30 featuring six objects observed by Chandra in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a small satellite galaxy to our Milky Way, located about 150,000 light years away): five of the images are of supernova remnants and one is of a region of active star formation. Each image is a superposition of Chandra and Hubble data. This release is in recognition of Archive month, celebrated in October, which recognizes the contributions to science, education, and public understanding made by the large, publicly-available data collections assembled by Chandra and other NASA missions. For more information see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2019/archives/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of Aquila X-1, which is a follow-up to a Target of Opportunity accepted on Oct 10.



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        Radiation Belts                     Nov  3
        PKS0215+015            ACIS-S
        Aquila X-1             ACIS-S       Nov  4
        PKS0215+015            ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Nov  5
        NGC3766                ACIS-I
        Perseus_south_cf_2     ACIS-I       Nov  6
        PMNJ1103-2329          HRC-S /LETG
        GaiaDR238354680725     ACIS-S       Nov  7
        Perseus_south_cf_2     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Nov  8
        J150934                ACIS-S
        CIZAJ0107.7+5408       ACIS-I
        F2M1507+3129           ACIS-S       Nov  9
        CIZAJ0107.7+5408       ACIS-I
        2RXSJ022152.8+28104    ACIS-S
        J162421.4+270408.7     ACIS-S       Nov 10
        Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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