1.0 original by rgm on 31 Sep
1.1 rgm: changed the LCIRS targets from T1 to the centre called e.g. SSA22-X
1.2 20001109 rgm: fixed LST times in plan; added XMM-Subaru and XMM-LBQS2215
field TCS catalogues.
Night 1; Fri, 03 Nov 2000
- In afternoon; check system health and count levels,
via darks, 'dome lights off darks' and dome flats.
- check pointing, autoguiding, datarates, overheads
- NB: Do not use a Persson standard to check the pointing as
recommended in the OCIW Obsering Guide. These are sometimes
too faint or ambiguous. USE A V=5 Star from the Alamanx. Also
after the night assistant does a CSET as him to move to different
V=5 alamanac star so you can check that the pointing has been
done correctly.
- Observing program: Positions may already be in Telescope catalog.
Note for the SSA22_X and AXAF_X fields, the aim is to get a single
deep tile. In the G133 file, the goal is to cover adjacent tiles with
around 30mins for each of the 4 pointings in each tile i.e. there are
16 pointings required.
- Recommended Standard stars
Perl script to generate grid of 4 positions for a complete tile
- cirsi_grid3.pl
download this, make it
executable i.e. chmod +x cirsi_grid3.pl; type cirsi_grid3.pl; if it
does not work check the path to perl as explained in the source code.
- test input catalogue file for cirsi_grid3.pl
>you may need to edit this since I do not know
the exact format of theDuPont Telescope Control System(TCS).
- type cirsi_grid3.pl DUPONT cirsi-test.cat cirsi-test.grid
- This will generate some files including
cirsi-test.grid
- The script works well except at the exact pole.
- g133
g133_dupont.tcs
The file contains the position that the telescope should be pointed at
to make a CIRSI tile. There are 4 tiles. Try to get 1 pass around all 2 tiles each night. Say a 7 point dither pattern with 3 times 40secs OR 4 times 30secs at each position in H. In J 2 times 60secs may be OK.
Use a dither step of around 15arcsecs.
Night 5+; Fri, 08 Nov 2000
other targets for the run
- XMM-LBSQ2215
TCS catalogue for XMM Subaru Survey field
- XMM-SDS 02 18 00 -05 00 00
TCS catalogue for XMM Subaru Survey field
- XMM-HAW167
- Blanco-1 [please use J2000]
Richard G. McMahon
<rgm@ast.cam.ac.uk>
Last modified: Fri Sep 28 17:43:26 2001