CFHT_Observing_Report


Subject: CFHT_Observing_Report
From: Web User (www@cfht.hawaii.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 06:18:25 HST


                     CFHT OBSERVING REPORT

RunID: 03AH36A

Name: Brian Stalder

Email Address: stalder@ifa.hawaii.edu

Support Astronomer: Forveille

Observing Assistant #1: Wells

Observing Assistant #2: Select

Instrument: AOB

Detector: KIR

Number of nights: 3

# of hours lost to weather: 0

# of hours lost to CFHT: 1

# of hours lost to setup: 1

# of hours lost to other reasons: 0

Results obtained: 13 radio source fields in H band (~90min integration time for each)
with ~2-3 standards per night plus dome flats.

Scientific Success: excellent

Recommendations: Dewar fill for kir takes ~45 minutes
which usually delays opening dome in evening.

Day crew left AOB on 3/14 in bad state which took

Hard to cancel a generic_script cleanly
(had to abort an exposure) then did not recenter.

Should put the position of field relative to guide
star in header (so the guide star can be off
field and not saturating the detector).

AOB problem, dewar fill) for a 45 x 120s single
exposure with 9-15 point dither pattern, a ~5s psf
sampling every 40 minutes and 120s dark frame on
every object. Readout and dither offset could be
made simultaneous? Filter change does take a
while also (and other tasks can not be run at that
time).



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b27 : Sun Mar 16 2003 - 06:18:35 HST