Run Manager Tools and Quick Links¶
- Nightly observing plan page:
- Link the page from the Observer Shift Schedule page on the appropriate date
- "kentools "ephem" makes a nice observing plan with start times adjusted for the date" Example Output
- Information for the Almanac and Weather subsection
- Useful software: iObserve , JskyCalc
- Standard star selection
- When were the supernova fields last observed?
- Scripts:
- Nightsum:
- How to create a nightsum
- Use the attached log_template.txt.
Fill in "Notes for Data Management" with list of bad files to be ignored and any other notes.
- Instrument status:
- Request instrument scientist to make entry in the logbook with "summary" tag
- DECam daily news
- DM status: Check for updates on the nightsum from previous nights (?)
- Putting Data Management results into the database
- Steve Kent's preliminary DQ page (official results come from DESDM): (https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/desops/wiki/Data_Quality_Operations)
- Clouded Out (DECal Scans):
- If the Dome is open run Obstac.
- If the Dome is closed:
- A good use of the time is to run a DECal scan. Note that at start of Y4 DECals scans aren't being done until the system is repaired.
- Call Kathy Vivas / Alfredo Zenteno (ext. need-to-update, email: kvivas@ctio.noao.edu or azenteno@ctio.noao.edu) to perform the scan.
- DECal photodiodes only produce good results at night -15 < Sun < -15 because they are very sensitive to background light.
- DECal has to start before 2am LOCAL time, otherwise it won't finish in time.
- Please do not call Kathy or Alfredo after 2 AM (local time) as there will be insufficient time to complete a scan.
- If DECal is running, do NOT manipulate the observer console - even if it looks empty! You will mess up DECal.
- If it is too late to do DECal Scans:
- Take an extra set of Dome flats.
- Set up a few darks and biases.
- Remember that all weather is temporary. It is important that we are ready to observe should the dome be reopened during the night.
- Target of Opportunity
- In case you are asked to save the Earth from PHAs (Potentially Hazardous Asteroids), a gravity wave alert was issued, or otherwise asked to obtain exposures of a Target of Opportunity
- Run Manager Decisions (Test Cases)
- This could happen to you. Test Cases