HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

                       DAILY REPORT #1908

PERIOD COVERED:  0000Z (UTC) 06/26/97 - 0000Z (UTC) 06/27/97

Daily Status Report as of 178/0000Z

1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED:

   1.1 Completed STIS/CCD 7659 (Daily Darks to Update Acquisition Bad Pixel
Table)

       The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (CCD) was used to make dark
calibration images in order to update the acquisition bad pixel table.
Daily hot pixel lists can also be used for science data analysis.  The
observations were executed as scheduled, and no anomalies were noted.

   1.2 Completed Eight Sets of NIC/1/2/3 7701 (NICMOS Short One Orbit Parallel)

       The Near Infrared Camera (Cameras One, Two and Three) was used as
part of a short NICMOS one orbit parallel program, to obtain "JHK" imaging
of sky regions when another instrument is prime.  The observations were
completed as scheduled, and no anomalies were reported.

   1.3 Completed Four Sets of STIS/CCD 7601 (CCD Dark and Bias Monitor)

       The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (CCD) was used to conduct
bias and dark monitoring.  Also, observations were made to track the growth
of hot pixels on the CCD in general and within the various target
acquisition apertures specifically.  The observations were completed as
planned, and no anomalies were reported.

   1.4 Completed Five Sets of WF/PC-2 6194 (WF/PC-2 Cycle 5: Polarization
Proposal)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make polarization observations of star
BD+64D106 at four different spacecraft roll angles.  This should permit a
detailed and independent calibration of each polarizer quad. The
observations were executed as scheduled, and no anomalies were noted.

   1.5 Complete WF/PC-2 5993 (Dark Matter Distribution in A1689 from
gravitational lensing)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations of galaxy cluster
Abell-1689-6 in order to study the distribution of dark matter in the
lensing galaxy cluster system.  This is to carry out an extensive survey of
the galaxies lying behind this cluster.  The observations were completed as
planned, and no problems were reported.

   1.6 Completed Four Sets of NIC/1/2/3 7729 (NICMOS Short One Orbit Parallel)

       The Near Infrared Camera (Cameras One, Two and Three) was used to
obtain "JHK" imaging of sky regions while another instrument was prime.
These observations were  part of the short NICMOS one orbit parallel
program.  The observations were executed as scheduled, and no anomalies
were noted.

   1.7 Completed Two Sets of WF/PC-2 6909 (WF/PC-2 Cycle 6 Calibration:
Earth Flats

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations of the bright Earth to
obtain streak flats which are used to construct high quality flat fields
for the WF/PC-2 filter set.  The observations were executed as scheduled,
and no anomalies were noted.

   1.8 Completed Three Sets of STIS/CCD 7700 (STIS Non-Scripted Parallel
Archive Proposal)

       The Space Telescope Imaging Telescope (CCD) was used to obtain
slitless spectroscopy with the G750L grating to search for emission line
galaxies at intermediate to high redshift.  Field galaxy surveys have shown
that at high redshift most galaxies have strong emission lines, and are
compact and blue.  This suggests that star formation rates were higher than
at present,and that AGN may have been more frequent.  The low background
and high resolution of HST separates these objects from the background.
The proposal completed as planned, and no problems were reported.

   1.9 Completed STIS/CCD 7076 (STIS Corrector Alignment, Fine)

       The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (CCD) was used to make
observations of BPM16274 as part of a fine correction alignment and
calibration procedure.  This is to refine the STIS corrector system into
alignment so that the image quality at the spectrographs slit plane is
optimized.  The observations were executed as scheduled, and no anomalies
were noted.

   1.10 Completed Two Sets of WF/PC-2 7553 (Pure Parallel Archive Survey II)

       WF/PC-2 parallel observations were obtained in the ultraviolet in
search for interesting objects.  This program is designed to find
extragalactic sources with near ultraviolet excesses (3000 A0) outside the
galactic plane and far ultraviolet sources (1600 A0) in the galactic plane.
The procedure was executed as scheduled, and no anomalies were reported.

   1.11 Completed STIS/MA1 7098 (Band I and Band II Flat Field Uniformity)

       The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (MA1) was used to make Band
1 and Band 2 flat field uniformity calibration observations, and to measure
high S/N DFLAT to assess flat field uniformity, compare to lab calibration.
The observations were completed as planned, and no anomalies were reported.


   1.12 Completed WF/PC-2 6935 (WF/PC-2 Cycle: Photometric Transformation)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations of object NGC-5139 in
order to perform photometric  transformations.  This is a series of
observations that will be used to extend the WF/PC-2 photometric
transformation to include the Stromger and Johnson-Cousins systems.  The
observations were completed as planned and no problems were reported.

   1.13 Completed Three Sets of STIS/CCD 7675 (STIS Non-Scripted Parallel
Archive Proposal)

       The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (CCD) was used in the
parallel mode to obtain slitless spectroscopy with the G750L grating to
search for emission line galaxies at intermediate to high redshift.  The
observations were completed as planned, and no anomalies were reported.

   1.14 Completed NIC/2 7331 (Near-IR Properties of the Bulges of Spiral
Galaxies)

       The Near Infrared Camera (Camera Two) was used to make infrared
observations of the bulge in spiral galaxy ESO499G37.  Near-IR data at HST
resolution are essential for correcting for the effect of dust and will
enable us to derive robust nuclear properties for the sample.  The
observations were executed as scheduled, and no anomalies were noted.

   1.15 Completed WF/PC-2 6452 (Global and Temporal Coverage of a
Atmospheric Regions of the Planet Jupiter)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations of selected regions of the
planet Jupiter in order to investigate its atmospheric dynamics.  These
data will be used in the interpretations of the observations made from the
Galileo Mission.  The observations were executed as scheduled, and no
anomalies were noted.

   1.16 Completed Two Sets of WF/PC-2 6887 (A Photometric Search for Faint
Companions to Nearby Stars)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make a photometric search observations of
the nearby stars L789-6-A and HD173739 in order to look for possible
companions.  The technique involves use of the Planetary Camera with wide
band pass filters to photometrically measure for the presence of resolved
dark companions.  The observations were executed as scheduled, and no
anomalies were noted.

   1.17 Completed NIC/1/2/3 7726 (NICMOS One Orbit Parallel)

       The Near Infrared Camera (Cameras One, Two and Three) was used to
make a one orbit parallel calibration observations.  The observations were
executed as scheduled, and no anomalies were noted.

   1.18 Completed WF/PC-2 6837 (The Ultraviolet Properties of "Dwarf"
Seyfert 1 Nuclei)

       The WF/PC-2 was used to make ultraviolet observations of the
"dwarf", type one, Seyfert galaxy NGC-7479.  This class of "dwarf" Seyfert
populate the faint end of the local AGN luminosity function and hold
important clues to the evolution of the entire AGN population.  The
observations were completed as scheduled, and no problems were reported.

   1.19 Completed NIC/2 7330 (The Fueling of Active Nucleii: A NICMOS
Snapshot Survey)

       The Near Infrared Camera (Camera Two) was used to probe the dark
matter distribution of Mark573, far from the center, by observing
intervening absorption from the MgII doublet (lambda 2800) in the spectrum
of one background QSO located in a geometrically optimal position.  HST
observations are required because this feature is in a wavelength range not
accessible from the ground, and the QSO magnitudes and expected strength of
absorption make IUE observations unfeasible.  The proposal completed as
expected with no anomalies.

2.0 FLIGHT OPERATIONS SUMMARY:

2.1 Guide Star Acquisitions:

                            Scheduled Acquisitions : 9
                                        Successful : 9

                          Scheduled Reacquisitions : 6
                                        Successful : 6


   2.2 FHST Updates:

                              Scheduled : 19
                             Successful : 19

   2.3 Operations Notes:

       A new STIS bad pixel table was uplinked at 177/2040Z.

3.0 SIGNIFICANT FORTHCOMING EVENTS:

       Continuation of normal science and SMOV operations.

/DMH