0906015¶
Nightly Observing Plan for MJD 57272 (starting evening of Sep 6, 2015)¶
DES has half the night. First 2 hours, then start again at mid-night +2 hours. David James on community support for the in-between time.
However, weather looks quite poor for tonight, clouds and possible rain in forecast.
Observers¶
- Ross Cawthon (observer 2, run manager)
- David James (observer 1)
CTIO Staff¶
- Hernan Tirado - Obs. Support
- Rodrigo Hernandez - operator
- Claudio Aguilera - operator
- Staff calendar
Almanac¶
mjd 57272, date 20150906, Site CTIO, UT-offset 3 hr Current local time 15:46 CLST UT 18:46 SidTim 13:06 Sunset 19:37 CLST 22:37 UT SidTim 254 deg Eve. -10 20:12 CLST 23:12 UT SidTim 263 deg Zeropoint; standards Eve. -14 20:31 CLST 23:31 UT SidTim 268 deg Begin obstac Eve. -18 20:49 CLST 23:49 UT SidTim 272 deg Last chance standards Midpoint 01:41 CLST 04:41 UT SidTim 345 deg Moonrise 03:53 CLST 06:53 UT SidTim 18 deg Morn -18 06:33 CLST 09:33 UT SidTim 58 deg Begin astronomical twilight Morn Std 06:50 CLST 09:50 UT SidTim 63 deg End obstac; begin standards Morn -10 07:10 CLST 10:10 UT SidTim 68 deg Sunrise 07:45 CLST 10:45 UT SidTim 76 deg Moon position (deg): RA 97.0, Dec 18.4 Phase: 0.399
Weather Conditions¶
- Weather looks quite bad! Clouds and perhaps rain predicted. There is an ongoing clouds and fog right now. Not a total cloud out, but would need to clear up more.
- Detailed hourly forecast | Satelite maps
Observing Plan and Goals for the Night¶
- DES 20:10-22:10 and again from 03:42-06:50. Community time in between.
- Beginning of night and end of night standards [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/09/06 23:12' Local time = 20:12 SDSSJ1442-0005 ra 14:42:00 dec -00:05:00 secz 1.6 E8-A ra 20:07:22 dec -44:37:01 secz 1.2
- Obstac until standards (clear), 6:50am
- morning standards (if clear) [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/09/07 09:50' Local time = 06:50 SDSSJ0100-0000 ra 01:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.7 SDSSJ0200-0000 ra 02:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.4 SDSSJ0320-0000 ra 03:20:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.2
Useful links¶
Nightsum | CTIO Night Report | DECam Logbook
Tololo Environmental Web Page | Detailed hourly forecast | Satelite maps
Notes from the 4PM Meeting¶
If no observing due to weather, set to do DECal.
DESDM & DQ
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Other Notes¶
- When were the SN fields last observered?
hex_name seqtype last_complete hex_name seqtype last_complete SN-E1 short 2015-08-31 05:01:30.515175+00:00 SN-E2 short 2015-08-31 05:21:00.892304+00:00 SN-X3 long_z 2015-08-31 05:43:50.081968+00:00 SN-S2 short 2015-08-31 06:51:57.908507+00:00 SN-C3 long_z 2015-08-31 07:12:40.316236+00:00 SN-C3 long_r 2015-08-31 08:19:57.652367+00:00 SN-C1 short 2015-08-31 08:43:03.912035+00:00 SN-X2 short 2015-08-31 09:03:41.268213+00:00 SN-X3 long_i 2015-08-31 09:23:20.835355+00:00 SN-C3 long_i 2015-09-01 05:55:06.552767+00:00 SN-C2 short 2015-09-01 06:29:10.391479+00:00 SN-X1 short 2015-09-03 05:22:04.697100+00:00 SN-X3 long_r 2015-09-03 05:41:23.293242+00:00 SN-C3 long_g 2015-09-03 06:05:22.904042+00:00 SN-X3 long_g 2015-09-04 05:27:04.768474+00:00 SN-S1 short 2015-09-04 06:07:50.563481+00:00