Good blog by John Spencer on the Planetary Society blog on rescheduling HST observations during a Jupiter flyby
They had ACS observations scheduled to coincide with pictures taken by the New Horizons Pluto Express probe.
They can use WFPC2 instead, lucky sods, but needed to put in a modified proposal fast.
Then they got 20 extra orbits, since the end of ACS really does leave the current HST observing queue rather sparse.
Always a silver lining...
Now if they'd only go back to the very highly rated NICMOS proposals that were cut last year to make way for the large proposals using ACS they'd find lots of good stuff to do... hint!
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Like Revere and the folks at The Scientist, I received the series of emails from "ACS insider" questioning the way the American Chemical Society is r
In response to my open letter to the ACS, Rudy Baum, the Editor in Chief of Chemical & Engineering News, emailed me some information which I am posting
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The most recent controversy to whip up the library and science blogospheres revolves around SUNY Potsdam cancelling their American Chemical Society journal package because the subscription packages on offer sucked up too high a percentage of their total budget.