Bragging rights¶

CONTENTS (feel free to add more)

Sensible

1. Seeing records (good)
2. Darkest Sky
3. Highest Teff
4. Highest shutter open efficiency
5. Best SN night
6. Most science exposures taken in a night
7. Best wide survey accumulated S/N
8. Most (non calibration) .json scripts run in a night

Not so much...

1. Seeing records (bad)
2. Brightest Sky
3. Youngest observing teams
4. Most consecutive nights of DES observing
5. Loneliest Shift
6. Longest Loneliest Shift
7. Observed during a total lunar eclipse
8. Most recently seen Robert Lupton wearing footwear
9. Longest nap during dark time
10. Most vegetarians in the control room
11. Most women working in the control room
12. Most desops pages updated in one shift
13. Most push-ups in one night
14. Most satellite trails in a single image
15. Meta-Records

Seeing records (as measured by kentools and/or DM)¶

Band	Record	Exposure	Observers	TelOps	Date
g	0.74”	500537	R. Das, Nagasawa, Zenteno	Tirado, Álvarez	2015-12-09
r	0.72”	500530	R. Das, Nagasawa, Zenteno	Tirado, Álvarez	2015-12-09
r	0.73”	349875	Kent, Kron, (Honscheid)	Tirado, Álvarez	2014-08-18
r	0.73"	575842	Wethers, Sevilla, Zenteno	Hernandez, Aguilera	2016-09-21
i	0.68”	390872	R. Das, Tucker, Allam	Tirado, Álvarez	2014-12-23
z	0.63”	590096, 590102	Medford, Soergel, Goldstein	Hernandez, Álvarez	2016-11-05
z	0.66”	403841	Nadolski, Frieman, Zhang	Aguilera, Rojas	2015-01-27
Y	0.61”	590097	Medford, Soergel, Goldstein	Hernandez, Álvarez	2016-11-05
Y	0.66”	593159	Vivas, Zenteno	Hernandez, Aguilera	2016-11-15
Y	0.68”	372014	Buckley-Geer, Bechtol, Nord	Paredes	2014-10-26
Y	0.68”	390886	R. Das, Tucker, Allam	Tirado, Álvarez	2014-12-24
Y	0.68”	372014	Buckley-Geer, Bechtol, Nord	Paredes	2014-10-26

Worst seeing (as measured by kentools and/or DM)¶

Band	Record	Exposure	Observers	TelOps	Date
g	4.36”	588912	Medford, Soergel, Goldstein	Hernandez, Aguilera	2016-11-02
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Best average FWHM over the night¶

Record	Date	Observers	TelOps	Note
0.768043478260869"	2014-01-13	Bruderer, Romer, Rooney	Claudio Aguilera, Manuel Hernández	1st place overall, 1st place for half night
0.795372549019607 "	2017-11-01	G. Khullar, Y. Zhang	Claudio Aguilera, Jacky Seron Manuel Hernández	2nd place overall, 1st place for full night

Darkest Sky¶

Band	Record	Exposure	Observers	TelOps	Date
g	-0.36	611010	Gruen, Plazas	Tirado	2017-01-19
g	-0.31	611011	Gruen, Plazas	Tirado	2017-01-19
g	-0.28	569155	Kremin, Tarsitano	Alvarez, Hernandez	2016-08-29
r	-0.54	611012	Gruen, Plazas	Tirado	2017-01-19
r	-0.53	611009	Gruen, Plazas	Tirado	2017-01-19
i	-0.95	500593	R. Das, Nagasawa, Zenteno	Tirado, Álvarez	2015-12-09
i	-0.77	611006	Gruen, Plazas	Tirado	2017-01-19
z	-0.93	500528	R. Das, Nagasawa, Zenteno	Tirado, Álvarez	2015-12-09
z	-0.89	500527	R. Das, Nagasawa, Zenteno	Tirado, Álvarez	2015-12-09
z	-0.84	611022	Gruen, Plazas	Tirado	2017-01-19
Y	-1.00	469565	D. James, Drlica-Wagner, Lasker	Tirado, Álvarez	2015-09-01
Y	-0.99	469553	D. James, Drlica-Wagner, Lasker	Tirado, Álvarez	2015-09-01

Brightest Sky¶

Band	Record	Exposure	Observers	TelOps	Date
g	5.02	618491	Drlica-Wagner, March	Hernandez and Hernandez	2017-02-08
r	4.26	618490	Drlica-Wagner, March	Hernandez and Hernandez	2017-02-08
i	3.41	61848	Drlica-Wagner, March	Hernandez and Hernandez	2017-02-08
z	2.28	618488	Drlica-Wagner, March	Hernandez and Hernandez	2017-02-08
Y	1.71	618487	Drlica-Wagner, March	Hernandez and Hernandez	2017-02-08

Highest Teff (from qcInv)¶

Band	Record	Exposure	Observers	TelOps	Date
g	2.47	483190	T. Abbott, S.S. Tie, C. Furlanetto	M. Hernandez	2015-10-08
g	2.46	382880	N. Kuropatkin, C. Smith, L. Clerkin	R. Hernandez, C. Aguilera	2014-11-29
r	2.56	500530	D. Nagasawa, A. Zenteno, R. Das	A. Álvarez, H. Tirado, R. Hernandez	2015-12-08
r	2.31	500531	D. Nagasawa, A. Zenteno, R. Das	A. Álvarez, H. Tirado, R. Hernandez	2015-12-08
i	3.65	500534	D. Nagasawa, A. Zenteno, R. Das	A. Álvarez, H. Tirado, R. Hernandez	2015-12-08
i	2.39	362390	J. Annis, C. Davis, A. Plazas	L. Paredes	2014-09-25
z	2.22	611022	A. Plazas, D. Gruen	H. Tirado, R. Hernandez	2017-01-19
z	1.91	572196	Mei-Yu Wang, R. Kron, K. Story	M. Hernandez, C. Aguilera	2016-09-07
Y	3.10	355937	R. Gupta, J. Marshall, B. Nord	A. Álvarez, M. Hernandez	2014-09-05
Y	2.63	611023	A. Plazas, D. Gruen	H. Tirado, R. Hernandez	2017-01-19

Highest shutter open efficiency¶

Efficiency	Observers	TelOps	Date
80.81 %	Lasker, Cawthon, Frieman	Hernandez, Alvarez	2015-09-11
79.27 %	Vivas, Manera	Hernandez, Aguilera	2016-08-24
78.34 %	Gill, Tucker	Tirado, Álvarez	2016-10-11
78.32 %	MacCrann, Rosenfeld	Tirado, Aguilera	2015-01-10
77.53 %	D'Andrea,Gangkofner, T.Li	Tirado, Álvarez	2014-11-11
77.72 %	D'Andrea, Krawiec, Gangkofner, T.Li	Hernandez, Aguilera	2014-11-18

Best SN night¶

Observers	TelOps	Date	Reason

Gourav Khullar, Yuanyuan Zhang	Claudio, Jacky, manuel	10-30-2017	All SN fields and all bands observed with good image quality, additional SN script (6 exposures) executed.
D'Andrea,Gangkofner, T.Li	Tirado, Álvarez	11-11-2014	All SN fields and all bands observed with good image quality
D'Andrea, Krawiec, Gangkofner, T.Li	Hernandez, Aguilera	11-18-2014	All SN fields and all bands observed with good image quality

Youngest observing teams¶

	Observers	Date
Youngest 3-Person	Cawthon (25y/128d), R. Das (24y/109d), Kremin (23y/241d)	2014-12-19
Youngest 2-Person	M. Baumer (24y/72d), A. Schooneveld (22y/69d)	2015-08-20
Oldest 2-Person	Kathy Romer (somewhat older than 48y)	2017-10-20
Oldest 3-Person	Mandeep Gill, Marty Murphy, Brian Yanny (sum ages: 149 years)	2017-11-09

Most consecutive nights of DES observing¶

Duration	Observer	Dates
26 nights	Lyndsay Old	12/28/12 to 1/31/13

Most science exposures taken in a night¶

	Number	Observers	TelOps	Date
Full	300	Nord, Wethers, Sevilla	Tirado, Álvarez	2016-09-27
Full	288	Diehl, Drlica-Wagner	Alvarez	2014-12-05
First Half	117	Kremin, Sanchez	Corcos, Tirado	2016-01-19
Second Half	208	Vivas, Lasker	Alvarez	2015-09-01

Loneliest Shift¶

Observers	Telops	Dates
M. Garcia-Fernandez	Alberto Alvarez	2015-09-25

Longest Loneliest Shift¶

Observers	Telops	Number of nights	Dates
Kathy Vivas	Alberto Alvarez	3	2015-09-26/28

Observed during a total lunar eclipse¶

Observers	Telops	Dates
Kathy Vivas	Alberto Alvarez	2015-09-27

Best wide survey accumulated S/N¶

∑ t eff *exptime	Observers	TelOps	Date
27063.00	Kuropatkin, Sako	M. Hernandez, Álvarez	2017-09-26
24778.35	Smith, Murphy, Brout	Álvarez, Tirado	2016-12-20
24000.75	Annis, Thomas, Bhatawdekar	M. Hernandez, R. Hernandez	2016-12-02
23391.00	Johnson, Kuropatkin, Sako	Tirado, Álvarez	2017-09-25
23154.30	Johnson, Kuropatkin, Sako	M. Hernandez, Álvarez	2017-09-23

Most ToOs, other special scripts attempted, completed in shortest time¶

Observers	Number of ToOs and other special json scripts	Dates
Mandeep Gill, Marty Murphy, Brian Yanny	10 jsons in 4 nights	2017-11-06 - 2017-11-09

Fastest response to an alert¶

Observers	Alert	Lapse	Dates
Allam, Tucker, Marshall	LIGO BNS event	about 11 hours	2017-08-17

Fastest (unauthorized) response to an alert¶

Observers	Alert	Lapse	Dates
Gill, Murphy, Yanny	IceCube event	about 6 hours	2017-11-06

The top 10 can be obtained using this query in the SISPI telemetry viewer:

SELECT MIN(date) AS night_start,
       MAX(date) AS night_end,
       SUM(qc_teff*exptime) AS weighted_teff
FROM exposure.exposure
WHERE program='survey'
  AND object like '%DES survey%'
  AND qc_teff IS NOT NULL
  AND (dm_accept OR NOT dm_done)
GROUP BY obstac.nightmjd(date)
ORDER BY SUM(qc_teff*exptime) DESC
LIMIT 10

Most recently seen Robert Lupton wearing footwear¶

Kathy Romer, Sunayana Bhargava, Nora Shipp |2017-10-20|

Longest nap during dark time¶

Kathy Romer (90 minutes, 2017-10-19)

Most DES vegetarians in the control room¶

Kathy Romer, Sunayana Bhargava, Nora Shipp |2017-10-17 to 2017-10-21|

Most working women in the control room¶

Kathy Romer, Sunayana Bhargava, Nora Shipp, Jacqueline Seron |2017-10-17 to 2017-10-18|
Rutuparna Das, Elisabeth Krause, Lyndsay Old, Marcelle Soares-Santos |2013-12-04 to 2013-12-05|

Most (non calibration) .json scripts run in a night¶

4 (WD cal 1, S82, IceCube, WD cal2) | Gill, Murphy, Yanny | 2017-11-09 |
3 (S82, Alhambra, low-zSN) | Kathy Romer, Sunayana Bhargava, Nora Shipp |2017-10-20|

Most desops pages updated in one shift¶

13 | Kathy Romer (not yet OCD diagnosed....) |2017-10-15 to 2017-10-21|

Most hours spent simultaneously observing (live) and participating in DES collaboration meeting sessions (via zoom)¶

5 | Mandeep Gill | CTIO and Brisbane | 2017-11-06 to 2017-11-09 |

Narrowest gap squeezed through by control room mouse¶

7 mm | Ratón de la sala de control, gap under door to restrooms | 2017-11-09 |

Highest % of Exposures loaded and inspected in Bigload¶

Observers	Percentage	Date
Gill, Wilkinson, Furnell	92%	2017-11-13

Most Cups of Coffee Drunk:¶

Observer	Cup	Number	Date
Wilkinson	White Espresso Cup	10	2017-11-15
Wilkinson	Large "Hot Chocolate" Cup	10	2017-11-16

Most Number of Bright Stars showing up in exposures that were looked up on the "Celestial Globe" from the Visitor Room:¶

Observer	Stars	Date
MSS Gill	Alpha Tucana, Beta Tucana, Epsilon Gruis, Achernar	2017-11-16

Most Number of Insects/Arachnids met in the Dome:¶

Observers	Creatures	Number	Date
Wilkinson, Gill, Furnell	Moths, Tarantulas	7,2	2017-11-17

Most number of Galaxies Identified on Bigload Images:¶

Observer	Number	Date
Furnell	206	2017-11-16

Most push-ups in one night:¶

Observer	Number	Date
India Friswell and Agnes Ferte	50	2017-11-24

Most satellite trails in a single image:¶

Observer	Number	Exposure	Date
Rutuparna Das, Martín Rodríguez Monroy, Andrew Pace	5	702709	2017-12-07

Meta-Records¶

• Most swiftly contested Bragging Right: Highest t-eff exposure 2017-02-02. Claimed by observers, contested immediately in 4pm Meeting. (See Run Managers Meeting notes 2017-02-02.)
• Longest held Bragging Right: Lyndsay Old has held the Longest Consecutive nights observing since 2012-12-28
• Most Bragging Rights held: 1st place: Tirado (28 mentions) 2nd place Alvarez (23 mentions) [Counted on 2017-02-08]
• Most new bragging rights categories invented in a single shift: Romer, Shipp, Bhargava (6 so far and its still 2 hours to twilight...)
• Most number of "Not so much"-type records held: Gill (~9, as of 11/20/2017)