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Chris Smith, 10/29/2015 02:40 PM
10292015¶
Nightly Observing Plan for MJD 57320 (starting evening of Oct 29, 2015)¶
DES (2012B-0001)
Observers¶
- R. Chris Smith (run manager)
- Danny Goldstein (Observer 1)
- Nikolay Kuropatkin (Observer 2)
CTIO Staff¶
- Hernan Tirado - Obs. Support
- Alberto Alvarez - operator
- Staff calendar
Almanac¶
mjd 57325, date 20151029, Site CTIO, UT-offset 3 hr Current local time 16:27 CLST UT 19:27 SidTim 17:16 Sunset 20:10 CLST 23:10 UT SidTim 315 deg Eve. -10 20:47 CLST 23:47 UT SidTim 324 deg Zeropoint; standards Eve. -14 21:07 CLST 00:07 UT SidTim 329 deg Begin obstac Eve. -18 21:28 CLST 00:28 UT SidTim 334 deg Last chance standards Moonrise 22:36 CLST 01:36 UT SidTim 351 deg Midpoint 01:26 CLST 04:26 UT SidTim 34 deg Morn -18 05:25 CLST 08:25 UT SidTim 93 deg Begin astronomical twilight Morn Std 05:45 CLST 08:45 UT SidTim 98 deg End obstac; begin standards Morn -10 06:06 CLST 09:06 UT SidTim 104 deg Sunrise 06:43 CLST 09:43 UT SidTim 113 deg Moon position (deg): RA 73.1, Dec 18.1 Phase: 0.796
Weather Conditions¶
- Clear in the afternoon
- Forecast is clear for tonight
- Detailed hourly forecast | Satelite maps
Observing Plan and Goals for the Night¶
- Beginning of night standards [Yzirg ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/10/29 23:47' Local time = 20:47 SDSSJ0100-0000 ra 01:00:00 dec +00:00:00 secz 1.8 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 (if clear) [grizY ordered scripts]
UT Date = '2015/10/30 8:45' Local time = 05:45 SDSSJ0958-0010 ra 09:58:00 dec -00:10:00 secz 1.8 SDSSJ0933-0005 ra 09:33:00 dec -00:05:00 secz 1.6 MaxVis ra 06:30:00 dec -58:45:00 secz 1.1
Useful links¶
Nightsum | CTIO Night Report | DECam Logbook
Tololo Environmental Web Page | Detailed hourly forecast | Satelite maps
Notes from the 4PM Meeting¶
- Data transfer and processing all caught up
- Probable plan for tonight:
- mostly supernova deadman
- some wide field in gri
- no ToO tonight
- Instructions: take good data!
- Data quality assessment done; accepted all
Other Notes¶
- When were the SN fields last observered?
hex_name seqtype last_complete SN-E2 short 2015-10-20 03:54:57.499696+00:00 SN-C1 short 2015-10-20 05:30:01.280999+00:00 SN-E1 short 2015-10-21 00:07:58.833511+00:00 SN-X3 long_i 2015-10-21 02:26:46.103320+00:00 SN-X3 long_z 2015-10-22 02:19:52.820737+00:00 SN-C3 long_g 2015-10-22 03:51:08.534037+00:00 SN-C2 short 2015-10-22 04:04:09.515229+00:00 SN-C3 long_r 2015-10-22 04:33:14.146963+00:00 SN-C3 long_i 2015-10-23 02:33:02.506782+00:00 SN-C3 long_z 2015-10-23 03:07:11.556888+00:00 SN-S1 short 2015-10-23 04:15:39.738757+00:00 SN-X3 long_r 2015-10-24 02:46:48.320736+00:00 SN-S2 short 2015-10-24 03:10:11.765722+00:00 SN-X2 short 2015-10-24 06:18:01.583602+00:00 SN-X1 short 2015-10-24 06:37:33.376164+00:00 SN-X3 long_g 2015-10-24 06:57:04.790275+00:00