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Principal Investigator Email Address

• kekjaer@eso.org

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 10:34:28.000

General Description

• Infrared observations of SN 1987A.
  
  The positions are from HST which is accurate within 0.4", this should be marginally
   better than the position given in proposal which was obtained from literature. 
  
  The brightest object in a FOV of 8"x 8" is the northern most star with a R magnitude
   of 15. This star will also act as the AO guide star.
  The AO guide star is a B star located 3 arcsec north-west from the SNR in all the
   OBs in this run. R=15.01 and B-R=-0.32
  
  We have chosen a FOV of 3x3 (spaxel size 0.100 arcsec) in order to get the best
   resolution possible of the SNR. In the proposal we said we wanted to use 0.250,
   which was a typo, -that would only resolve the SN-ring into 4 spaxels. The SV observations
   from last winter was observed with 0.100 resolution and thus we would like to do
   the same in this observation.
  
  The jitterbox is chosen as small as possible since the extended target otherwise
   would fall out of the FOV.
  
  The constraints are set so that we require photometric conditions only on one OB
   for each filter. The remainding OBs have the condition 'clear'. This is to make
   sure we get observations for this period and if possible also the fluxes.

Waiver Requests

• Waiver Request submitted Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:51:55 and Approved Mon, 18
   Jul 2005 00:24:07 thus allowing the submittal of OBs longer than 1h under the condition
   that an OB which has been running for more than an hour will not be repeated if
   it is interupted by worse observing conditions.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• There are no critical observing condition constrains besides the constraints
   mentioned in the OBs (Airmass, seeing and so on)

Time-Critical Aspects

• There is no special time critical aspects associated with the run

Special Execution Requirements

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Special Calibration Information

• The telluric standard is in the calibrations plan for SINFONI.
  The day time flats and wave calibrations are sufficient.

ToO Information

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ToO Activators List

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Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

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Source(s) of Pre-imaging

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Pre-imaging sources not listed above

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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

Did you indicate the magnitude of the brightest object in the field in
 each SINFONI OB?

• YES

If you are using the AO: Did you indicate for every OB the magnitude
 of the guide star, and its distance to the target (if any)?

• YES

If you submitted OBs for standard stars, did you use the provided StandardStar
 templates?

• N/A

If you are using a specific offset pattern or position angle: did you
 check carefully the definition in the manual?

• N/A

Did you make really sure that none of your OBs ever saturates the detector?

• YES

If you are using the AO: did you enter the correct Strehl Ratio (on-axis,
 K-band) AND the seeing value in the constraint set?

• YES