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

Preparations were completed for the winter 2019 eclipse season; the season contains ten eclipses and runs from Dec 1 to Dec 25. Real-time procedures were executed on Nov 30 to prepare for the first eclipse: one to activate SCS 29 and one to dump and clear the EPS glitch counters. Chandra passed through the first and second eclipses of the season on Dec 1 and 4 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

Additional real-time procedures were executed on Dec 1 to perform full-frame dark current readouts of the Aspect Camera Assembly CCD, and on Dec 4 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

Of note this week is the 20 Years of Chandra Science Symposium from Dec 3-6 in Boston, MA. The meeting covers active research in X-ray astronomy, with emphasis on the science that is enabled by the high angular resolution and spectral resolution provided by Chandra.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below.