Bragging rights¶
CONTENTS (feel free to add more)
Sensible
- Seeing records (good)
- Darkest Sky
- Highest Teff
- Highest shutter open efficiency
- Best SN night
- Most science exposures taken in a night
- Best wide survey accumulated S/N
- Most (non calibration) .json scripts run in a night
Not so much...
- Seeing records (bad)
- Brightest Sky
- Youngest observing teams
- Most consecutive nights of DES observing
- Loneliest Shift
- Longest Loneliest Shift
- Observed during a total lunar eclipse
- Most recently seen Robert Lupton wearing footwear
- Longest nap during dark time
- Most vegetarians in the control room
- Most women working in the control room
- Most desops pages updated in one shift
- Most push-ups in one night
- Most satellite trails in a single image
- 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 |
r |
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i |
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z |
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Y |
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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)