SV Notes for MJD 56254 (starting evening of November 22)¶

Observers¶

Observer 1	Observer 2	Run Manager	SISPI Expert on Call	Eyeball Squad	QR
Elliot	Bernstein	[Bernstein]	Elliot	Gruen/March	-

DECam Configuration and Setup¶

SISPI Configuration File	sv.ini
DECam constants	DECAM:CURRENT
Proposal ID	2012B-0003
Image Processing (Calibration)	NCSA
Image Processing (First Cut)	NCSA

Almanac¶

Twilight ends 21:56, middle of night to hand over to community SV at 01:29

Moonset at 03:31 74% illuminated, 35 degrees away from our Mini-Survey field on Stripe 82, bright night

Weather Conditions¶

• Tololo Weather Links

Observing Plan and Goals for the Night¶

Note no longer any need for u-band flats or standards

1. Standard bias and dome flat sequence during afternoon (no more u band)
2. Please try to get dome open for temperature equilibration at earliest appropriate time, be sure all cooling/ventilation systems are on.

Monitor Conditions:

1. Check on DIMM status, running if at all possible.
2. Make sure RASICAM is online if weather conditions permit.
3. A few times per night ask the operator to contact the other telescopes on Tololo to get their seeing value. Record those in the eLog.

Expectation for tonight is clear weather, decent seeing, tracking with modest ellipticity (<~0.1), poor tracking N of zenith.

Obstac should be configured to allow observations to X<1.5

Prioritization for tonight's observations:

1. Photometric standards sequence as soon as dark enough (ugrizY in 3 fields at different airmasses, preferably one at X < 1.25, one at X = 1.25-1.65 and one at X > 1.65) and again at handover to Dara. Conditions: clear or thin clouds, any seeing.
2. Alignment_Observing. Conditions required: Clear or thin clouds, stable <1.2" seeing, hexapod responding to commands.
3. Observe MiniSurvey under OBSTAC control, should be doing izY in both 1a and 1b fields. Conditions required: clear or thin clouds, seeing <1.6".
4. SN_Observing. C3 iz Conditions required: Clear or thin clouds, <1.6" seeing.
5. Filter donuts: 30s exposure 1500 um out of focus in filters gizY. Conditions required: anything but thick clouds.
6. DECal sweeps Conditions required: Any.

Notes from the 4PM Meeting and Additional Comments¶

Notes from Observers¶

See Night summary

TASCA b-filter animated GIF for this night (time stamp in UT):

Notes on Analyses of Night's Data:¶