FM Walter 9/15/08 SMARTS 1.5m Service Observing Program 080918 --- EPHEMERIS INFORMATION --- For the night of: Thu, 2008 Sep 18 ---> Fri, 2008 Sep 19 Local midnight = 2008 Sep 19, 4 hr UT, or JD 2454728.667 Local Mean Sidereal time at midnight = 23 10 28.4 Sunset ( 2215 m horizon): 18 45 CST; Sunrise: 6 29 CST Evening twilight: 19 57 CST; LMST at evening twilight: 19 07 Morning twilight: 5 16 CST; LMST at morning twilight: 4 28 Moonrise: 22 19 CST Moon at civil midnight: illuminated fraction 0.817 3.0 days before last quarter, RA and dec: 2 51 11, 22 14.2 The sun is down for 11.7 hr; 9.3 hr from eve->morn 18 deg twilight. .......................................................................... Civil date Setup Program(s) Sep 18 echelle CN 08b-027 26/Ia LEHI 08b-01 STSI TOO STSI 08b-09 SUNY 08b-02 SUNY 08b-08 SUNY 08b-10 SUNY 08b-11 .............................................................................. Name Slit Filter Coll Grating Tilt & Comp,exp Ystart Ysize Yspec Blaze w.l. cov. (sec) Res (A) 26/Ia 110.5 clear 565 26 16.14 He-Ar 30 214 280 " 3550 3660-5440 4.3 .............................................................................. In afternoon or during dinner: - Install 26/Ia grating setup - check focus if necessary If there is time: - obtain at least 25 Zero frames - obtain at least 10, preferably 25, flat-field frames (projector or dome) otherwise, do the Zero and pflat exposures at the end of the night. Then switch to the echelle. Please set the chip readout to read out the full CCD. I allow 2 minutes read time for the full CCD. Please obtain at least 10, and preferably 25, projector flat (quartz) frames. Please do a ThAr lamp exposure with each echelle target. Please set the slit width to 150 microns. Program Pri Target RA (J2000) Dec mag Exp Cmp T CDT Rem SUNY 08b-11 2 V1280 Sco 16 57 40.91 -32 20 36.4 13 3x1200 1 72 19 19 N SUNY 08b-11 1 V1309 Sco 17 57 32.91 -30 43 10 8 3x 600 1 42 20 31 N SUNY 08b-11 1 V5558 Sgr 18 10 18.27 -18 46 52.1 11 3x1000 1 62 21 13 N LEHI 08b-01 1 LS 5039 18 26 15.03 -14 50 53.6 11.2 1x1800 2 40 22 15 LEHI 08b-01 1 HD 175640 18 56 22.66 -01 47 59.5 6.2 1x 60 2 8 22 55 SUNY 08b-10 2 S CrA 19 01 08.7 -36 57 19.8 11 3x1200 1 72 23 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- When done with the above echelle targets, switch to the RC spectrograph. I assume 30 minutes overhead for the change of instruments. Verify the 26/Ia setup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Pri Target RA (J2000) Dec mag Exp Cmp T CDT Rem cal 1 Feige 110 23 19 58.4 -05 09 56 11.8 3x 200 1 19 0 45 YALE 08b-14 1 HD_693 0 11 15.86 -15 28 04.7 4.9 3x 10 2 9 1 4 R CN 08b-27 1 TONS180 0 57 19.94 -22 22 59.1 3x 180 1 20 1 13 S10 Yale 08b-14 1 ASAS_004115 0 41 15 -68 40 00 13.4 3x 80 2 14 1 33 STSI 08a-09 1 NGC 246 0 47 03.4 -11 52 19 11.8 3x 300 2 25 1 47 SUNY 08b-01 2 BL Hyi 1 41 00.3 -67 53 27.7 14.9 15x300 1 96 2 12 C SUNY 08b-08 1 J0320-10 3 20 24.17 -10 28 57.8 10.7 3x 600 1 39 3 48 SUNY 08a-03 1 053829-0204 5 38 29.46 -02 04 54.7 13.7 3x 800 1 49 4 27 SUNY 08b-11 2 V597 Pup 8 16 18.01 -34 15 24.1 12 3x 600 1 39 5 16 N cal 1 pflat --- --- 0 10 5 55 PP end 26/Ia 6 5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If there is any time left before dawn, or you get ahead and have to wait for targets to rise, or if some targets are too faint to acquire, please select from among the following 26/Ia targets: SUNY 08a-05 3 AB Dor 5 28 44.8 -65 26 54.8 7.0 3x 60 1 12 SUNY 08b-02 3 NY Ori 5 35 37 -05 12 24 15.0 3x 300 1 24 Y SUNY 08b-11 3 V574 Pup 7 41 53.8 -27 6 37 10 3x 900 1 54 N SUNY 08b-01 3 VV Pup 8 15 06.7 -19 03 16.8 13.9 3x 300 1 24 C STSI TOO 3 V576 Car 8 19 15.7 -60 10 01 10.2 3x 300 2 25 STSI 08b-09 3 Lo 4 10 05 45.7 -44 21 32 16.6 3x 900 1 54 Just before sunrise, get well-exposed TWILIGHT SPECTRA at zenith. Aim for 3-5 spectra, each with between 5,000 and 30,000 counts per pixel. Remember to take a comp spectrum too. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remarks: X: target is far to the north. It must be observed within +/- 20 minutes of transit to keep the zenith distance <60 degrees. M: moon within 10 degrees. Skip if not visible in the acquisition TV B: very bright target. Best observed through clouds. C: cataclysmic variable. May be fainter than in finding chart. Skip if not visible. CE: EF Eri is the eastermost star in a pair. The separation is about 25 arcsec. It may be 3 mag fainter than the western star. Please Check the finding chart if in doubt. E: target far to the east. If running ahead, give extra time to the previous target, or observe a backup target if time permits. F: target is very faint. It may not be visible through clouds or with poor seeing. If so, please replace it with targets from the backup list. N: Nova. Will be fainter than on finding chart. NN: new nova. No finding chart available. Should be the brightest star near the coordinates (positional uncertainty +/- 2 arcsec). PP: if not done at the start of the night. Be sure to get one set of bias frames either at the start of end of the night. R: radial velocity standard. N3: 227 arcsec W and 153 arcsec N of center of NGC 300 ST: if you cannot observe the standard, please try to observe another cal star (in the backup list) at some other time during the night. S4: set slit width to 4.0 arcsec. Center on the nucleus of the galaxy. S5: set slit width to 5.0 arcsec. Center on the nucleus of the galaxy. S2: set slit width to 2.0 arcsec. Center on the nucleus of the galaxy. Reset the slit to the normal width for the wavecal. S10: set slit width to 10.0 arcsec. Please reset at the end of the observation. T: Time critical. Please try to start these observations close to the requested time. PM: may have significant proper motion. W: star very close to 2 air masses at end of observation. Don't start late; do the calibration lamp at the end if it helps. X: Far north. May exceed 2 AM if you do not get to it on time. Skip it if it it at >2 AM. Y: 5 arcsec SE of brighter star. Try to keep the brighter star out of the slit. Skip if the seeing is really bad. Z: monitoring target. Try to maintain spacing between observations. *: if clouds preclude observations of the fainter targets, and all the backup targets have been observed, you may take a long sequence (nx300) of observations of S CrA. -------------------------------------------------------------------- General Notes: Astronomical ephemerides are from SKYCAL,by John Thorstensen Pri: Target priority. + = absolute highest priority 1 = observe object if possible 2 = extra targets; observe only if no Priority 1 target is available 3 = backup/filler targets; low priority Cmp: 1 means take comparison spectrum only before target exposures; 2 means before and after; 3 means before, after, and between each exposure. 0 means NO wavecal should be taken. .............................................................................. Notes about finding charts: RA & Dec: all coordinates are accurate to 1"; charts can be generated by operator as necessary using LEDAS or DSS. Many charts are available via the link from the main 1.5m scheduling page. Charts for many objects should be available at the telescope. .............................................................................. Questions may be addressed to: Howard Bond bond@stsci.edu (STSI programs) Fred Walter fwalter@astro.sunysb.edu (SUNY programs)