HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

                       DAILY REPORT #1537

PERIOD COVERED:  0000Z (UTC) 12/14/95 - 0000Z (UTC) 12/15/95

Daily Status Report as of 349/0000Z

1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED:

   1.1 Completed Three Sets of WF/PC-2 6183 (WF/PC-2 Cycle 5 Calibration: =
Decon)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make some internal flat, K-spot, and dark =
calibration images.  The purpose is to define decontamination procedures =
to be run during Cycle 5.  The calibration observations were completed as =
scheduled, and no anomalies were reported.

   1.2 Completed WF/PC-2 5834 (Distant Comet Nucleus Sizes)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations of the Comet =
Shoemaker-Levy 87 H1 (Note: Not Shoemaker-Levy 9) to try to determine the =
size of its nucleus.  This comet is farther than 19 AU from the sun, and =
should show the bare nucleus.  The observations were executed as =
scheduled, and no anomalies were noted.

   1.3 Completed Three Sets of WF/PC-2 6183 (WF/PC-2 Cycle 5 Calibration: =
Decon)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make some internal flat, K-Spot, and dark =
calibration images.  The purpose is to define decontamination procedures =
to be run during Cycle 5.  The calibration observations were completed as =
scheduled, and no anomalies were reported.

   1.4 Completed FOS/BL 5781 (Emission Line Variability in the Lensed =
Quasar Q0957+561: Carryover)

       The Faint Object Spectrograph (Blue side) was used to make =
observations of the lensed quasar Q0957+561 (A and B) to study its =
emission line variability.  From IUE data it was found that the flux =
ratio, A/B varies significantly on a time scale of two weeks.  The =
observations were executed as scheduled, and no anomalies were noted.

2.0 FLIGHT OPERATIONS SUMMARY:

   2.1 Guide Star Acquisitions: 

                            Scheduled Acquisitions : 3
                                        Successful : 3

                          Scheduled Reacquisitions : 12
                                        Successful : 12

   2.2 FHST Updates: 

                              Scheduled : 5
                             Successful : 5

   2.3 Operations Notes: 

       There were no ODMs due to a NASCOM line outage during events at =
348/1537Z and 348/1618Z.  There was a nine minute unrecoverable =
engineering data loss at 348/1638Z while in the coherent mode due to =
unknown NASCOM problems.  TTRs were written dor each both occurrences.

3.0 SIGNIFICANT FORTHCOMING EVENTS: 

        Nothing at this time.

/DMH