CIRSI DuPont IOA Time Nov, 2000

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.

Summary of data obtained

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.

LST range	Field	RA-Dec	other info
22:30 - 23:30	SSA22_X	22 17 +00 21	TCS catalogue for SSA22 central overlap tile
23:30 - 02:30	G133	01 04 -06 42	TCS catalogue for g133 field
02:30 - 04:30	AXAF_X	03 32 -27 40	TCS catalogue for AXAF central overlap tile field
04:30 - 06:30	NGC2547	08 00 -49 00[check equinox]	Simon's WWW page on NGC2547

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