08232015¶
Nightly Observing Plan for MJD 57258 (starting evening of Aug 23, 2015)¶
DES has the second half of the night. Switchover occurs at the midpoint of the night.
Observers¶
- Anna Schooneveld (observer 1, run manager)
- Michael Baumer (observer 2)
CTIO Staff¶
- Manuel Hernandez - Obs. Support
- Claudio Aguilera - operator
- David James - Scientific Support
- Staff calendar
Almanac¶
mjd 57259, date 20150824, Site CTIO, UT-offset 3 hr Current local time 15:29 CLST UT 18:29 SidTim 11:57 Sunset 19:30 CLST 22:30 UT SidTim 240 deg Eve. -10 20:05 CLST 23:05 UT SidTim 248 deg Zeropoint; standards Eve. -14 20:24 CLST 23:24 UT SidTim 253 deg Begin obstac Eve. -18 20:43 CLST 23:43 UT SidTim 258 deg Last chance standards Midpoint 01:45 CLST 04:45 UT SidTim 334 deg Moonset 04:20 CLST 07:20 UT SidTim 12 deg Morn -18 06:47 CLST 09:47 UT SidTim 49 deg Begin astronomical twilight Morn Std 07:05 CLST 10:05 UT SidTim 53 deg End obstac; begin standards Morn -10 07:25 CLST 10:25 UT SidTim 58 deg Sunrise 08:00 CLST 11:00 UT SidTim 67 deg Moon position (deg): RA 269.4, Dec -17.9 Phase: 0.633
Weather Conditions¶
- Lightly overcast. Low wind, low humidity.
- Detailed hourly forecast | Satelite maps
Observing Plan and Goals for the Night¶
- Handover from community team
- midnight standards [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/08/25 04:45' Local time = 01:45 SDSSJ0200-0000 ra 02:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 2.1 SDSSJ0100-0000 ra 01:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.5 SDSSJ2140-0000 ra 21:40:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.2
- Obstac until standards (clear) or 07:19 (cloudy)
- morning standards (if clear) [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/08/25 10:05' Local time = 07:05 SDSSJ0000-0000 ra 00:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 2.0 SDSSJ0100-0000 ra 01:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.5 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- it was run last night
- 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¶
- Last second SISPI problem during 1st half. SISPI lost the guider PAN. Reconfigured and
restarting SISPI brought it back to life. 15 minutes of non-DES time was lost. It turns out this is a problem that is known from the past, but hasn't occurred for a while.
- Klaus wrote: I restored the SVE code with the queue length telemetry I wrote a little test program to check network latencies
outside of SISPI. This will be running to night.
Other Notes¶
- Are there data to declare bad?
- Run apply_data_gui around midnight
- When were the SN fields last observered?
hex_name seqtype last_complete SN-S2 short 2015-08-18 07:16:08.005556+00:00 SN-C3 long_z 2015-08-19 06:46:27.472666+00:00 SN-X3 long_z 2015-08-21 06:48:39.713315+00:00 SN-C3 long_g 2015-08-21 07:59:35.199632+00:00 SN-C3 long_r 2015-08-21 08:52:36.501165+00:00 SN-C1 short 2015-08-21 09:51:04.900456+00:00 SN-E1 short 2015-08-23 05:04:40.305877+00:00 SN-E2 short 2015-08-23 05:23:55.289090+00:00 SN-X1 short 2015-08-23 06:05:35.830077+00:00 SN-X2 short 2015-08-23 06:25:02.489281+00:00 SN-C3 long_i 2015-08-23 06:45:34.046910+00:00 SN-C2 short 2015-08-23 07:24:25.402868+00:00 SN-X3 long_g 2015-08-23 07:44:44.665076+00:00 SN-X3 long_r 2015-08-23 07:57:53.560026+00:00 SN-X3 long_i 2015-08-23 08:27:29.535256+00:00 SN-S1 short 2015-08-24 08:35:30.958022+00:00