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Friday 1 August 2008 8.00am EDT
| During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
A Chandra image release was issued on Jul 30 of NGC 6543, the "Cat's Eye" planetary nebula, showing that its central star is surrounded by a cloud of multi-million-degree gas. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/catseye/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of XTE J1701-407 that was accepted as a target of opportunity on Jul 25. |
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Radiation Belts Aug 4 DEEP2 Field 3 (17 obs) ACIS-I Aug 5 AX J1832.3-0840 ACIS-I Aug 6 XTE J1701-407 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Aug 7 M87 ACIS-S NGC 6626 ACIS-S Carina Clusters Pt ACIS-I Aug 9 Radiation Belts Carina Clusters Pt ACIS-I Aug 10
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022