09112015¶
Nightly Observing Plan for MJD 57276 (starting evening of Sep 10, 2015)¶
DES has half the night. Evening until 11:15 CLT, then start again at 4:15 CLT. David James on community support for the in-between time.
Observers¶
- Josh Frieman (observer 1)
- James Lasker (observer 2, run manager)
CTIO Staff¶
- Manuel Hernandez - Obs. Support
- Alberto Alvarez - operator
- Staff calendar
Almanac¶
mjd 57277, date 20150911, Site CTIO, UT-offset 3 hr Current local time 15:45 CLST UT 18:45 SidTim 13:24 Sunset 19:40 CLST 22:40 UT SidTim 260 deg Eve. -10 20:15 CLST 23:15 UT SidTim 268 deg Zeropoint; standards Eve. -14 20:33 CLST 23:33 UT SidTim 273 deg Begin obstac Eve. -18 20:52 CLST 23:52 UT SidTim 278 deg Last chance standards Midpoint 01:39 CLST 04:39 UT SidTim 350 deg Morn -18 06:27 CLST 09:27 UT SidTim 61 deg Begin astronomical twilight Morn Std 06:44 CLST 09:44 UT SidTim 66 deg End obstac; begin standards Morn -10 07:04 CLST 10:04 UT SidTim 71 deg Moonrise 07:18 CLST 10:18 UT SidTim 74 deg Sunrise 07:38 CLST 10:38 UT SidTim 80 deg Moon position (deg): RA 158.4, Dec 7.2 Phase: 0.081
Weather Conditions¶
- It is currently bright and sunny. No plans for it getting worse
- Detailed hourly forecast | Satelite maps
Observing Plan and Goals for the Night¶
- DES 20:14-23:15 CLT and again from 04:15-06:45. Community time in between.
- Beginning of night standards [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/09/11 23:15' Local time = 20:15 SDSSJ2140-0000 ra 21:40:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 2.1 E6-A ra 14:45:33 dec -45:15:34 secz 1.3 E8-A ra 20:07:22 dec -44:37:01 secz 1.2
- Obstac until handoff (if clear), 11:15pm.
- Obstac after handoff (if clear), 4:15am. Should hit rest of C3 and X3. C3-z did not get hit last night despite having the largest exposure gap.
- morning standards (if clear) [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/09/12 09:44' Local time = 06:44 SDSSJ0100-0000 ra 01:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.8 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¶
DIMM Seeing doesn't make it to old environmental page and telemetry viewer...
DESDM & DQ
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Few Exposures in wide fields marked bad. Several SN exposures marked bad.
Other Notes¶
- When were the SN fields last observered?
hex_name seqtype last_complete SN-S2 short 2015-08-31 07:02:06.745208+00:00 SN-C3 long_z 2015-08-31 07:12:40.316236+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-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-E1 short 2015-09-08 02:14:29.456176+00:00 SN-E2 short 2015-09-08 07:31:41.142605+00:00 SN-X2 short 2015-09-08 07:53:01.095089+00:00 SN-X3 long_i 2015-09-08 08:12:34.924511+00:00 SN-X3 long_z 2015-09-08 08:46:41.064389+00:00 SN-C3 long_r 2015-09-11 07:46:29.777327+00:00 SN-C1 short 2015-09-11 08:09:38.879227+00:00 SN-X1 short 2015-09-11 08:50:07.829603+00:00 SN-S1 short 2015-09-11 09:09:54.635815+00:00