List of 2019A programs for:
MegaCam,
WIRCam,
ESPaDOnS,
SITELLE,
and
SPIRou.
QrunID | Instrument | HST Dates | # Nights | Status | Run Summary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
19AQ01 | MegaCam | Feb 1 - 11 | 11 | Done | The last 3 nights of semester 2018B were mostly lost to high humidity (42h lost). The 11 nights of 2019A were a mixed bag of photometric skies, high humidity, and winter storm with 150 mph gusts, for a total of 57h lost to weather. |
19AQ02 | SPIROU | Feb 12 - 25 | 14 | Done | The Feb 12/13 night was cancelled due to a technical issue with the telescope DEC drive motors. The first SPIRou PI and Large Program observations were obtained during the night of Feb 13/14. |
19AQ03 | MegaCam | Feb 26 - Mar 13 | 16 | Done | Almost 70 hours of this long MegaCam run were lost to high humidity, snow, high winds, or clouds. Progress has been slower than desired. |
19AQ04 | ESPaDOnS | Mar 14 - 21 | 8 | Done | A minimal amount of time (<1h) was lost to high winds. All nights were photometric. About 2/3 of the hours in A and B programs have been validated. |
19AQ05 | WIRCam | Mar 22 - 28 | 7 | Done | Over half of the nights were photometric, with however periods of Image Quality above 1 arcsec. The equivalent of 3 nights (or about 24h) was lost to high humidity of clouds. |
19AQ06 | MegaCam | Mar 29 - Apr 3 | 6 | Done | This short run was productive despite 15h lost to weather, and periods of poor Image Quality. |
19AQ07 | SITELLE | Apr 4 - 11 | 8 | Done | |
19AQ08 | SPIROU | Apr 12 - 30 | 18 | Done | The weather has been very good and cooperative for this SPIRou run. The QSO team continues to implement new functionalities in the suite of planning and observing tools. Due to a technical failure of the crane required for upper-end exchanges, the initial 14-night run has been extended to a 19-night run. |
19AQ09 | SITELLE | May 1-12 | 12 | Done | Due to a failure of the bridge crane on April 26, the exchange to SPIRou was delayed and the SITELLE run was moved ahead of the MegaCam run. |
19AQ10 | SPIRou | May 13-14 | 2 | Done | |
19AQ11 | WIRCam | May 15 - 23 | 9 | Done | |
19AQ12 | MegaCam | May 24 | 1 | Done | During the exchange on May 24, the camera shutter experienced some technical difficulties. In addition, in the evening, the cooling was also shut off due to another technical issue. Troubleshooting and an exchange back to WIRCam is scheduled for May 25. |
19AQ13 | WIRCam | May 25 - 29 | 5 | Done | |
19AQ14 | ESPaDOnS | May 30 | 1 | Done | |
19AQ15 | MegaCam | May 31 - Jun 6 | 7 | Done | |
19AQ16 | ESPaDOnS | Jun 7 - 11 | 5 | Done | This was an excellent run, with excellent weather and Image Quality. |
19AQ17 | SPIROU | Jun 12 - 20 | 9 | Done | The weather was excellent most of the run. |
19AQ18 | WIRCam | Jun 21 - 24 | 4 | Lost | Due to a failure of the bridge crane, it was not possible to install WIRCam (nor any other instrument) on the telescope. The run has been lost. |
19AQ19 | MegaCam | Jun 25 - Aug 01 | 37 | It's complicated | The start of the run was delayed until June 30, to
allow more testing of the bridge crane. The run was initially extended
by one
night and tests performed on the crane forced us to extended the MegaCam
run
indefinitely and cancel the scheduled SPIRou run to handle crane
repairs. Observations were obtained from June 30 to July 15. During that time, 14h were lost to weather, and 5.5h to a filter jukebox issue. The last few nights of observing were executed before and up to the full moon, which limited the observations possible. On July 16, the CFHT suspended daytime operations and night time observations because of limited access to the summit. |