09122015¶
Nightly Observing Plan for MJD 57277 (starting evening of Sep 12, 2015)¶
DES has the full night.
Observers¶
- Devon Hollowood (observer 1)
- Ofer Lahav (observer 2)
- Josh Frieman (run manager)
CTIO Staff¶
- Manuel Hernandez - Obs. Support
- Alberto Alvarez - operator
- Staff calendar
Almanac¶
mjd 57278, date 20150912, Site CTIO, UT-offset 3 hr Current local time 15:18 CLST UT 18:18 SidTim 13:01 Sunset 19:40 CLST 22:40 UT SidTim 261 deg Eve. -10 20:15 CLST 23:15 UT SidTim 270 deg Zeropoint; standards Eve. -14 20:34 CLST 23:34 UT SidTim 274 deg Begin obstac Eve. -18 20:52 CLST 23:52 UT SidTim 279 deg Last chance standards Midpoint 01:39 CLST 04:39 UT SidTim 350 deg Morn -18 06:25 CLST 09:25 UT SidTim 62 deg Begin astronomical twilight Morn Std 06:42 CLST 09:42 UT SidTim 66 deg End obstac; begin standards Morn -10 07:02 CLST 10:02 UT SidTim 72 deg Sunrise 07:37 CLST 10:37 UT SidTim 80 deg Moon position (deg): RA 169.6, Dec 3.7 Phase: 0.022
Weather Conditions¶
- It is currently completely clear and sunny. Forecast for tonight looks good, clouds expected after we finish in the morning.
- Detailed hourly forecast | Satelite maps
Observing Plan and Goals for the Night¶
- DES 20:15 CLT to 07:02 CLT
- Beginning of night standards [Yzirg ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/09/12 23:15' Local time = 20:15 SDSSJ2140-0000 ra 21:40:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 2.0 E6-A ra 14:45:33 dec -45:15:34 secz 1.3 E8-A ra 20:07:22 dec -44:37:01 secz 1.1
- Obstac. Looks like SN fields C3-g, X3-g, X3-r on deadman.
- May do ToO observation of potentially hazardous asteroid in morning twilight
- morning standards (if clear) [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/09/13 09:42' Local time = 06:42 SDSSJ0100-0000 ra 01:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.9 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¶
New (under development) Tololo environmental page appears to show different DIMM data from the old (current) page. DECam Telemetry captures DIMM seeing in accord with the current environmental page.
DESDM & DQ
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Other Notes¶
- When were the SN fields last observered?
hex_name seqtype last_complete 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-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 SN-E1 short 2015-09-12 02:00:46.752304+00:00 SN-S2 short 2015-09-12 07:22:38.092039+00:00 SN-C3 long_z 2015-09-12 07:43:10.006001+00:00 SN-C3 long_i 2015-09-12 08:50:47.646672+00:00 SN-C2 short 2015-09-12 09:25:00.543599+00:00