Run Manager Tools and Quick Links¶

• The run manager job description
  • Daily check list

• Observer Shift Schedule
• CTIO Staff Schedule

• 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:
  • SNe
  • Calibration

• 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.

• Daily 4pm telecon

• 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)

• SISPI status

• Standard Procedures

• DES Proposal IDs

• 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