From: stephanie snedden
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20081230 (MJD 54831)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:10:00 -0700
Kaike,
MARVELS starts getting time on January 5. Thanks for reminding me to
get the observing plan web page up. I'll have that done today.
Until the new plates are available, I agree with your assessment about
stretching the observing times a bit for the SEGUE plates that bracket
the gap. We should do that if at all possible.
Steph
On Dec 31, 2008, at 9:18 AM, kaike pan wrote:
>
> On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Viktor M wrote:
>
>>
>>                       APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
>>
>>                                 OBSERVING LOG
>>                           Tuesday December 30, 2008
>>
>>                                  (MJD 54831)
>>
>> ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===---
>>
>> Howard Brewington
>> Viktor Malanushenko
>> Kaike Pan (swing)
>>
>> ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===---
>>
>>        Science!
>> 30 Dec 2008  54831.0  0.23  BOSS/SEGUE  11.0 hours
>>
>> ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===---
>>
>> We had bad seeing since evening.
>> Therefore we were not switched on imager.
>>
>> We received good S/N for five plates and one of them
>> has been declared as done (plate 3188).
>>
>> Also, we have kindly attention to the fact that is GAP
>> between 05:00Z and 08:00Z. In to database is only two or three
>> preMarvel
>> plates. Absolutely is not SEGUE plates for this interval of
>> observations.
>>
>
>       Thanks for bringing this up. Plate 3124  from Nov drilling run
> has not arrived APO yet.
> It should cover the gap well. Does anybody know what happens to the
> plate?
>
>      Marvels run will resume soon. (I think within 3-4 night.
> Steph, when will MARVELS
> start?) We still have two plates expires at 5:00 Z or so. Three
> plates become available at
> 6:00 Z. if we stretch their observing time a little bit, plus post
> calib and pre-calib, and setup time for
> 6:00Z plates, we should be fine for this run. However, we do
> STRONGLY hope we have more plates
> available at APO.
>
>    We have not got plates from Dec drilling run yet? Will these
> plates be used in the coming
> MARVELS run?
>
>    Demitri, could you please upload Dec drilling run plates (overlay
> and MapP files)
> to plate-mapper? Once these file being there, I will install them
> into the plate database.
> Thanks!
>
> Happy New Year!
>
>    -Kaike
>
>
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