Schedule Overview:
The RC will be available ONLY February 1-19, after which it will be replaced by SIMON.
The RC queue has 3.5 hours on every odd-numbered night.
The GSU 12B-01 program will be executed on every even-numbered night.

Contents
• Schedule
• Links to Finding Charts
• Special observing plans
• What to do on cloudy nights
• Useage Summary
• Contact Information
• Standard Setups
• Downloading Data
• An IDL pipeline for reducing RC spectra (June 2009)
• An IDL pipeline for reducing echelle spectra (June 2009)

Instructions for Proposers Awarded Service Time

NOW AVAILABLE: The Stony Brook/SMARTS Spectral Standards Database

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2003A Service Observing Schedule ||| 2003B Service Observing Schedule

2004A Service Observing Schedule ||| 2004B Service Observing Schedule

2005A Service Observing Schedule ||| 2005B Service Observing Schedule

2006A Service Observing Schedule |||2006B Service Observing Schedule

2007A Service Observing Schedule |||2007B Service Observing Schedule

2008A Service Observing Schedule |||2008B Service Observing Schedule

2009A Service Observing Schedule |||2009B Service Observing Schedule

2010A Service Observing Schedule |||2010B Service Observing Schedule

2011A Service Observing Schedule |||2011B Service Observing Schedule

2012A Service Observing Schedule |||2012B Service Observing Schedule

2013A Service Observing Schedule

Date	Grating	Setup	Plan	Targets	Log	Programs	Notes
February 1	47	47/Ib	130201.plan	target log	130201.log	GSU 12A-04, NOAO 12b-0174, NOAO 12A-388 SUNY 12B-11, VAND 12B-01	Clear
February 2	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130202.log	GSU 12B-01	Clear
February 3	26	26/Ia	130203.plan	target log	130203.log	NOAO 11b-44, NOAO 12b-0232 SUNY 12b-11, Yale 12b-09	Clear; thin cloud
February 4	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130204.log	GSU 12B-01	Clear; Humid
February 5	13	13/I	130205.plan	target log Data	130205.log	YALE 12a-02	Clear, Humid; program not completed
February 6	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130206.log	GSU 12B-01	Partly cloudy
February 7	26	26/Ia	130207.plan	target log	130207.log	NOAO 12b-0232, SUNY 12b-11	This Cloud
February 8	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130208.log	GSU 12B-01	This Cloud
February 9	47	47/II	130209.plan	target log	130209.log	HAO 13a-01, SUNY 13A-11	Humid; program not completed
February 10	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130210.log	GSU 12B-01	Clear
February 11	26	26/Ia	130211.plan	target log	130211.log	NOAO 12b-0232, SUNY 12b-11	Cleat; technical issues; program not completed
February 12	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130212.log	GSU 12B-01	Clear
February 13	47	47/IIb, 47/Ib	130213.plan	target log	130213.log	GSU 12A-04, NOAO 12a-0338 SUNY 12B-31, SUNY 13a-11	Clear
February 14	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130214.log	GSU 12B-01	Clear
February 15	13	13/I	130215.plan	target log Data	130215.log	Macri; SUNY 13A-11; Yale 12B-02	Clear; substitute observer
February 16	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130216.log	GSU 12B-01	Clear
February 17	26	26/Ia	130217.plan	target log Data	130217.log	GSU 12A-04; NOAO 11B-44, NO 12B-0232 SUNY 13A-11, Yale 12b-09	Clear
February 18	26	26/Ia	GSU12B.plan	target log	130218.log	GSU 12B-01	Clear
February 19	13	13/I	130219.plan	target log Data	130219.log	Macri; SUNY 13A-11; Yale 12B-02	Clear
February 20	26	26/Ia	130220.plan	target log	130220.log	NOAO 12B-0232, SUNY 13A-11	Clear

Notes:

Special Observing Plans
• Bright 26/I or 47/II targets for cloudy nights
• Bright 47/I targets for cloudy nights

Useage Summary

A more-or-less current accounting of the useage for the current semester is maintained here.

Contact Information
• Scheduler: Fred Walter (fwalter@mail.astro.sunysb.edu) 631-632-8232
• Deputy Scheduler: Howard Bond (bond@stsci.edu)
• Observer: Manuel Hernandez
• Observer: Rodrigo Hernandez
• SMARTS PI: Charles Bailyn (bailyn@astro.yale.edu)

Except for authorized TOOs, all requests for changes to the schedule must be approved by the scheduler or the PI.

All requests to schedule TOOs, authorized or not, must be made to the scheduler.

The following is a list of spectrograph setups we have used. The most common service observing setups are 13/I, 26/I, 47/Ib, 47/II, 47/IIb, and 58/I. Other setups may be requested when the science requires them, but scheduling efficiency is increased if the standard ones are used as much as possible.

Note: Gratings may not be changed during the night. Grating tilts may be changed, at the cost of some observing efficiency.

Our observer only takes the data, he does not give it to you. You must download your own data.

scp the data from either

• v17@ctio60.ctio.noao.edu:/ua21/v17/yymmdd-15 or
• v17@ctio60.ctio.noao.edu:yymmdd-15

Get the v17 password from Fred Walter, or Howard Bond.

Note that as of November 2008 CTIO has tightened their computer security, and are discouraging scp downloads. They are encouraging use of VPN (see this memo).

The data are generally kept on-line at CTIO for a week or two after they have been taken. The raw data are archived at Stony Brook and at Yale.

An IDL pipeline for reducing RC spectra

The pipeline should run under Linux, with IDL versions 6.2 and later. You will need the IDL Astronomy User's Library in your path.

Caveat: this has not been extensively tested on other systems, so you may run into missing procedures and undefined environment variables (or hardware links). Please let me know of any problems and I will correct the problems.

An IDL pipeline for reducing echelle spectra

This will work only for data taken using the full chip readout.

The pipeline should run under the Linux O/S, with IDL versions 6.2 and later. You will need the IDL Astronomy User's Library in your path.

Caveat: this has not been tested on other systems, so you may run into missing procedures and undefined environment variables (or hardware links). Please let me know of any problems and I will correct the problems.

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