Dear ASCA users:

As informed, ASCA AO-8 observation targets and exposure times are
modified for about 2000 ksec (see ASCA home page on Web). The
long-term observation timelime for the later half of AO-8 period from
August 2000 to February 2001 will be uploaded on the Web next week.
All the currently accepted AO-8 priority-A targets are on the schedule.
In addition we will be able to observe a few high ranked priority-B targets
during the period. On the basis of this long-term timeline, we will 
hereafter release short-term observation schedules of a unit of two weeks
to a month, each about a month ahead as was the case till AO-7.

Following, please find an ASCA observation  schedule for the period of
August 8 to August 20. Please contact Paul (Paul@astro.isas.ac.jp) and 
Chiho (chiho@astro.isas.ac.jp) if you have questions on the ASCA schedule.
Paul Hilton will leave ISAS in late July and Chiho Matsumoto will take over 
the ASCA scheduling task after then.

Best regards,
Fumiaki Nagase

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A S C A     WEEKLY  OBSERVATION   PLAN  (AO-8)
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#8-2,   Aug. 8 - Aug. 20 , 2000			ver-1  (00/06/30)
(ISAS contact scientist: 	K. ASAI	(asai@astro.isas.ac.jp)
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Date	MNV	Target 		Tag. 	Exp.	Observation	PI or 
	start	name 		Cat.	(ks)	Cat.  Pri./TC 	( PPI/Co-PI)
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8/08	00:30	M33		Gal.	60	LO8	A/n	A. Kubota

8/09	15:40	HD142527	Star	40	LO8	A/n	K. Hamaguchi

8/11	00:10	Rho Oph core	Star	300	LO8	A/n	K. Imanishi

8/19	13:00	Tau Sco		Star	20	LO8	A/n	S. Kitamoto

8/20	 7:40	MNV to next target
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(Note) Obs. Cat. JPN: Japan time, US: US time, JUS: Japan-US Collaboration, 
USJ: US-Japan Collaboration,  MJU: Merged Japan-US (PPI=Japan), 
MUJ: Merged US-Japan (PPI=US),  ESJ: ESA-Japan Program, 
MOT: Observatory Time (Calibration), TOO: Target of Opportunity,
and LO8: AO-8 Long Observation Program.