Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:02:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Stephen Kent
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20021209 (MJD 52618)
>
> design time and stopped at the end of its design time.  At this rate, we
> expect to need four full sets of observations to acquire the 21 exposures
> needed.  We too post-science calibration exposures at the end, as called for
> by SoS.
Yes, these plates will take some patience to finish.
> postCals were perfectly normal.  We are at a loss to explain why r2 is
> so poor, or at least why SoS is reporting it as such.  We moved on,
> but we decided we have nothing to lose by declaring this plate done.
> If SoS is wrong, this is the correct decision.  If SoS is right, then
> we are not throwing away antyhing useful.
The exposures for r2 looked OK to me (night sky lines about as bright in
r1 as in r2).  We'll see how the reductions look.
Steve