RA Range: 0.5 - 12.5h

Constraint set (Typical seeing, Transparency,Airmass, FLI, Moon distance): 0.8, THN, 1.5-2.0, 1.0, 45

Pre-imaging run?	No!	Chilean run?	No!	Special calibrations?	No!
Time critical?	No!	ToO?	No!	Carry-over run?	No!

 
 
 Simple program aimed at obtaining emission line spectra of a well-studied 
sample of edge-on (or quasi edge-on) barred spiral galaxies in order to 
probe the kinematics, unravel the structure, and understand the role of 
the prominent central gaseous disks. 

 Each nucleus should be (hopefully) identifiable as the light peak at the 
center of the bulge of the galaxy. If a strong dust lane is present (hence 
partially hiding the nucleus) the slit should then be positioned on the 
light peak just above the dust lane.

 The observations do not require photometric conditions, but a thick cloud 
coverage is not acceptable as the surface brightness of the objects is low. 
Each OB-galaxy pair has an associated finding chart showing where the slit 
should be positioned (though the PA is not marked). Such position is 
however approximate as the nuclei are typically saturated on the DSS. The 
slits should be centered on the true light peaks (and be parallel to the 
major axes of the galaxies).

 Standard calibrations are sufficient, including night time flux standards.


 

Run status page 68.B-0562A

README of this run:

68.B-0562A.README