02182016¶

Nightly Observing Plan for MJD 57793 (starting evening of Feb 8, 2017)¶

Half night

Observers¶

• Antonella Palmese (Obs 1)
• Marcelle Soares-Santos (Obs 2, RM)

CTIO Staff¶

• Staff calendar

Almanac¶

Weather Conditions¶

• Clear and sunny. Blue skies. No wind.
• Detailed hourly forecast | Satellite maps
• CTIO Weather Resources

Observing Plan and Goals for the Night¶

* Evening Standards: Yzirg.

* Nightly Defocus.

* Obstac: Mostly wide field

• if obstac i-band observations within 1 hour of cosmos time AND
• if i-band deep if i<1.0" (cosmos_ideep_1.json) [UNLIKELY DUE TO MOON]
• else, more wide field

* Midpoint standard (using calspec) use only 1 (highest airmass): grizY (expect 05:00)
Split time for standards with BLISS

UT Date = '2017/02/09 04:55'     Local time = 01:55
SDSSJ1227-0000        ra 12:27:00  dec +00:00:00  secz 1.6

When were the last SN fields observed?¶

(See https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/desops/wiki/When_were_the_SN_fields_last_observed for database query.)

hex_name    seqtype    last_complete
hex_name    seqtype    last_complete
SN-X3    long_z    2017-01-26 00:55:51.528351+00:00
SN-E1    short    2017-01-27 00:53:18.591071+00:00
SN-E2    short    2017-01-28 00:53:06.852121+00:00
SN-X1    short    2017-01-28 01:14:15.665466+00:00
SN-X3    long_r    2017-01-28 01:33:29.425048+00:00
SN-X3    long_g    2017-01-29 01:04:14.492806+00:00
SN-S2    short    2017-01-29 01:17:20.589302+00:00
SN-S1    short    2017-01-29 01:36:41.706064+00:00
SN-C1    short    2017-02-05 00:47:39.788401+00:00
SN-X2    short    2017-02-05 01:07:52.108646+00:00
SN-C3    long_r    2017-02-05 01:28:05.676930+00:00
SN-C3    long_z    2017-02-05 01:56:37.995348+00:00
SN-X3    long_i    2017-02-07 00:48:18.651625+00:00
SN-C3    long_g    2017-02-07 01:23:13.185944+00:00
SN-C3    long_i    2017-02-07 01:36:25.184363+00:00
SN-C2    short    2017-02-07 02:10:23.816206+00:00

Notes from 4pm meeting¶