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Nightly Observing Plan for MJD 57253 (starting evening of Aug 18, 2015)

DES has the second half of the night. Switchover occurs at the midpoint of the night.

Observers

  • Michael Baumer (observer 2)
  • Jim Annis (observer 1, run manager)

CTIO Staff

  • Hernan Tirado - Obs. Support
  • Alberto Alvarez - operator
  • Leonardo Paredes -float operator
  • Staff calendar

Almanac

mjd 57253, date 20150818, Site CTIO, UT-offset 3 hr
Current local time 15:09 CLST     UT 18:09     SidTim 11:13
Sunset     19:27 CLST  22:27 UT   SidTim  233 deg  
Eve. -10   20:02 CLST  23:02 UT   SidTim  242 deg  Zeropoint; standards
Eve. -14   20:21 CLST  23:21 UT   SidTim  246 deg  Begin obstac
Eve. -18   20:40 CLST  23:40 UT   SidTim  251 deg  Last chance standards
Moonset    23:00 CLST  02:00 UT   SidTim  286 deg  
Midpoint   01:47 CLST  04:47 UT   SidTim  328 deg  
Morn -18   06:53 CLST  09:53 UT   SidTim   44 deg  Begin astronomical twilight
Morn Std   07:11 CLST  10:11 UT   SidTim   49 deg  End obstac; begin standards
Morn -10   07:31 CLST  10:31 UT   SidTim   54 deg  
Sunrise    08:06 CLST  11:06 UT   SidTim   63 deg  
Moon position (deg): RA 194.6, Dec -4.5 Phase: 0.246

Weather Conditions

Observing Plan and Goals for the Night

  • Handover from community team
  • midnight standards [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/08/19 04:47'     Local time = 01:47
SDSSJ0100-0000        ra 01:00:00  dec +00:00:00  secz 1.7
SDSSJ0000-0000        ra 00:00:00  dec +00:00:00  secz 1.4
SDSSJ2140-0000        ra 21:40:00  dec +00:00:00  secz 1.2
  • Obstac
  • morning standards [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/08/19 10:11'     Local time = 07:11
SDSSJ0000-0000        ra 00:00:00  dec +00:00:00  secz 1.8
SDSSJ0100-0000        ra 01:00:00  dec +00:00:00  secz 1.4
SDSSJ0320-0000        ra 03:20:00  dec +00:00:00  secz 1.2
  • Things to keep in mind:
    • Watch for opportunity to do ptc scan. "Opportunity"= dome closed at night.
    • defocus_nightly.json is suppose to be run weekly- when are we running next?
      • According to Aaron, photometric conditions aren't important, but seeing should be below 1.2-1.3"

Useful links

Nightsum | CTIO Night Report | DECam Logbook
Tololo Environmental Web Page | Detailed hourly forecast | Satelite maps

Notes from the 4PM Meeting

  • SISPI is having problems at the end of the night. Likely GUI only, likely related to number of items in queue.
    Do standard star observations one star at a time.
  • We are discussing the atmCam operations with Ting and Hernan
  • Klaus requests a handful of diagnostics iff the SISPI guy slows way down tonight:
    • try refreshing the ics guy
    • try starting a SISPI guy on a laptop- no control possible but of interest is whether it is also slow
    • look at network traffic on observer1
    • in general keep an eye out for details of interest.

Other Notes

  • Are there data to declare bad?

Yes, the apply_data_gui shows many (100?) main survey observations to
declare bad- these are from nights earlier in the run. It seems
processing is catching up.

  • When were the SN last observered?
    hex_name    seqtype    last_complete
SN-X2    short    2015-08-15 06:41:51.900984+00:00
SN-X3    long_g    2015-08-15 07:01:16.861576+00:00
SN-X3    long_r    2015-08-15 07:14:26.735919+00:00
SN-X3    long_i    2015-08-15 07:37:34.202069+00:00
SN-X3    long_z    2015-08-15 08:11:40.772673+00:00
SN-S1    short    2015-08-15 09:19:11.372800+00:00
SN-C3    long_g    2015-08-15 09:39:51.049968+00:00
SN-C3    long_r    2015-08-16 06:57:56.811583+00:00
SN-C3    long_i    2015-08-16 07:21:10.912875+00:00
SN-C1    short    2015-08-16 07:55:11.590322+00:00
SN-C3    long_z    2015-08-16 08:14:45.193970+00:00
SN-E2    short    2015-08-18 05:10:02.444071+00:00
SN-E1    short    2015-08-18 05:29:26.908197+00:00
SN-X1    short    2015-08-18 06:24:41.071989+00:00
SN-C2    short    2015-08-18 06:55:39.217558+00:00
SN-S2    short    2015-08-18 07:16:08.005556+00:00