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Principal Investigator Email Address

• prieto@mpia.de

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 3:21;58

General Description

• This is  broad-band imaging of 3 AGN. Acquisition should be done with
   move to pixel in order to get the center of the galaxy to the center of the array.
   Please check for saturation in the acquisition and adjust DITxNDIT to get optimal
   values of counts per frame below the linearity limit. Also in cases where NDIT is
   small, please decrease DIT (e.g. by one half) and increase the number of exposures
   in order to avoid saturation. In this run, DIT values are taken from previous NACO
   runs.
  The AGN nucleus is taken as the reference source in all cases. Generic-offset templates
   are used to get separate skies. The pattern in the generic offset is a square with
   9 positions and five sky offsets located in a pentagon shape.
  M87: 1 OB for J-K imaging (we succesfully obsereved this object with optical WFS
   in mode 6-3 under seeing 0.7-1"), 1 OB for L-band,  1 OB for NB 4.05um (taken as
   equivalent to M-band).
  N1068: 1 OB in J-band.
  N1566: 1 OB in J-band. For this target, in the acquisition, move the galaxy peak
   to the center of the array, then move about ~ +7" in RA and about ~ +7" in DEC.
   This is to get two faint stars (actually a "binary" and a single star - see finding
   chart), next to the galaxy, in all science frames.
  Each OB is less than 1 hr. No brigther sources than conica limits are in these fields.

Waiver Requests

• No Waiver Request was submitted

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• n/a

Time-Critical Aspects

• n/a

Special Execution Requirements

• Acquisition is done with move to pixel to get the center of the galaxy
   to the center of the array. Please check for saturation in the acquisition and adjust
   DITxNDIT to get optimal values of counts per frame below the linearity limit. Also
   in cases where NDIT is small, please decrease DIT (e.g. by one half) and increase
   the number of exposures in order to avoid saturation.
  N1566: in the acquisition of this object, move the galaxy peak to the center of
   the array, then move about ~ +7" in RA and about ~ +7" in DEC. This is to get two
   faint stars (actually a "binary" and a single star - see finding chart), next to
   the galaxy, in all science frames.

Special Calibration Information

• ZPs of the night are needed

ToO Information

• n/a

ToO Activators List

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Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

• n/a

Source(s) of Pre-imaging

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Pre-imaging sources not listed above

• ---(Empty)---

Do all your OBs comply with the instrument-specific requirements listed
 on the instrument-specific Phase 2 web page ?

• YES

If this is a pre-imaging run, did you select PRE-IMAGING for the Observing
 Category for each Observing Template ?

• N/A

Do all your finding charts comply with both the general and instrument-specific
 Phase 2 Web Pages ?

• YES

If you submitted OBs for standard stars, did you specify the magnitude
 and spectral type of all standard stars in the OBs ?

• N/A

Have you included OBs for any calibrations that you need but which are
 not part of the Calibration Plan ?

• N/A

If you are observing Moving Targets, have you attached suitable ephemeris
 files to your OBs?

• N/A

If you have preferences which OBs should be executed first, did you make
 use of the User Priority field in the OBs ?

• N/A

If this is a run that requires coordinated observations with other facilities,
 did you give proper instructions in the Time-Critical Aspects Section ?

• N/A

If you have PSF reference star OBs, do the names of those OBs begin with
 PSF_ ?

• N/A

If there are Finding Charts attached to your OBs, is the field-of-view
 of at least one of these charts 2' x 2' (with clearly labelled field orientation)
 ?

• YES

Have you clearly marked and labelled your wavefront reference objects
 R1, R2, R3, ... (as specified in the NAOS Preparation Software) on your Finding
 Charts ?

• YES

Have you specified the magnitude of the brightest object in the field-of-view
 for each OB ?

• N/A

Are there objects in any of your fields (including standard stars) which
 are brighter than the limits specified in the User Manual and on NACO web Pages
 ?

• NO

If the previous answer is yes, have you given a list of OBs and a justification
 for the brightness limit violation in the general description field ?

• N/A