01242015¶
Nightly Observing Plan for MJD 57047 (starting evening of Jan 24, 2015)¶
DES has the first half of the night. Switchover occurs at the midpoint of the night, which is at 01:55 CLST (04:55UT).
Observers¶
- Elisabeth Krause (run manager / observer 1)
- Marisa March (observer 2)
CTIO Staff¶
- Claudio Aguilera
- Hernan Tirado
Almanac¶
mjd 57047, date 20150124, Site CTIO, UT-offset 3 hr Current local time 13:57 CLST UT 16:57 SidTim 20:30 Sunset 20:53 CLST 23:53 UT SidTim 52 deg Eve. -10 21:32 CLST 00:32 UT SidTim 61 deg Zeropoint; standards Eve. -14 21:54 CLST 00:54 UT SidTim 66 deg Begin obstac Eve. -18 22:16 CLST 01:16 UT SidTim 72 deg Last chance standards Moonset 23:45 CLST 02:45 UT SidTim 94 deg Midpoint 01:55 CLST 04:55 UT SidTim 127 deg Morn -18 05:34 CLST 08:34 UT SidTim 182 deg Begin astronomical twilight Morn Std 05:57 CLST 08:57 UT SidTim 188 deg End obstac; begin standards Morn -10 06:18 CLST 09:18 UT SidTim 193 deg Sunrise 06:57 CLST 09:57 UT SidTim 202 deg Moon position (deg): RA 7.6, Dec 4.4 Phase: 0.322
Weather Conditions
Some cloud forecast - up to 40% coverage for a time.
http://www.yr.no/place/Chile/Coquimbo/Observatorio_Astron%C3%B3mico_Cerro_Tololo/hour_by_hour_detailed.html
http://139.229.115.231/web/world_sat.php¶
Observing Plan and Goals for the Night¶
- Start of night standards [Yzirg ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/01/25 00:32' Local time = 21:32 SDSSJ0200-0000 ra 02:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.4 *DES_std_sdssj0200_Yzirg.json* SDSSJ0320-0000 ra 03:20:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.2 *DES_std_sdssj0320_Yzirg.json*
- Pre-hand over standards (chose best option) [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/01/25 04:55' Local time = 01:55 E2-A ra 04:03:00 dec -44:41:45 secz 1.7 SDSSJ1048-0000 ra 10:48:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.4 SDSSJ0843-0000 ra 08:43:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.2
- No special instructions tonight?
- Obstac.
- middle-of-night standard, then handover to community team