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Last update of the USG file: Jul 17 09:42:45 2002

Major Instrument Modes: Imaging (windowed)

RA Range: 10:58

Constraint set (Typical seeing, Transparency,Airmass, FLI, Moon distance): 0.8 2CLR 1.5 0.6 30 deg


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


Special Remarks:


Imaging windowed to small area of CCD. The PI obtained waivers to be
allowed to correct OB length for time saved by using the windowed
readout, and to use low gain.

Three OBs were executed, but the pointing of the telescope was not
set correctly to the center of the window. New coords have now been
calculated and inserted to replace the old ones.

Note 1: Please verify (using the FCs) that the pointing coords were
calculated the correct way before executing the full OBs.

Note 2: The ACTUAL execution time should be used to determine when the
programme should be declared completed. As submitted it is more than
10 hours (measured in p2pp).

Note 3: There is a problem with the two nearby bright stars. There is
quite a bit of confusing information around concerning when the
CCD/amplifier will saturate/fill the well. USG provided the best info
we could get, but neither we (nor Hermann who I just talked to on the
subject) are completely certain at this point if the full well or the
amplifier saturation will be the limiting factor in low gain. I
therefore suggest that the observer checks the bright stars in the
image to see if they bleed or saturate. If they do, then execution
should be stopped and the OBs should be adjusted.
 
 
 


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