205674 and counting
Seeing WISE
December 21, 2009new comet WISE
February 9, 2010
As of 11:15 UT on 7 Feb 2010, WISE has taken 205674 framesets, each with four images covering 47×47 arc-minutes at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. 16.8 percent of the sky has been covered to the desired depth (or deeper). You can monitor the current coverage here.
nwright
Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
