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Principal Investigator Email Address

• kmenten@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 02:04:32.000

General Description

• This programme aims at determining the relative astrometry between resolved
   dust features of the AGB star
  IRC+10216 and an USNO astrometric reference star. The distance between this astrometric
   reference star and
  IRC+10216 is ~35".
  
  ACQUISITION FOR SCI OB (Astrom10216): after the preset the bright "features" of
   IRC+10216 should appear in
  the center of the CONICA array. After NAOS setup, please move IRC+10216 to the middle
   of the upper right 
  array quadrant, then the astrom ref star should appear on the lower left quadrant.
   In the next step, 
  please center the astrom ref star on pixel x/y=284/284. 
  Please also check that IRC+10216 is not saturated(!) ... the acquisition uses the
   same DIT as
  the sci templates! 
  If IRC+10216 is saturated (or close to), please adjust DIT and NDIT in the sci templates!
  
  SCIENCE TEMPLATES: The science templates move IRC+10216 and the astrom ref star
   over the S54
  field of view (using offsets and rotations) - both objects should ALWAYS be visible
   in the field of view!!
  At the end of the OB one short exposure with the S27 camera is taken, where IRC+10216
   should be close to 
  the field center and the astrom ref star will be off the FOV.
  
  CALIBRATION OBs: 2 OBs for plate scale/field orientation and distortion measurement
   have been prepared
  (named CAL_xxx). These OBs do not have to be executed during the same night as the
   science OB, but during
  the same service mode period, if possible (more precisely, no technical intervention
   that could change 
  detector scale, orientation, instr focus, etc. must be inbetween science OB and
   CAL OB execution!!)
  IMPORTANT FOR OB CAL_galcenter: stars named IRSxxx on the attached FC are used for
   astrometric reference,
  hence these should always be in the FOV and not saturated

Waiver Requests

• Permission was granted by head of USD to include one short image with
   the S27 objective, which 
  was not inlcuded in the phase1 proposal

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• None

Time-Critical Aspects

• There are 2 calibration OBs (named CAL_xxx) that should be executed close
   in time to the science OB
  (Astrom10216). It is not a must to execute the CAL OBs during the same night as
   the science OB, but during
  the same service mode period, if possible (more precisely, no technical intervention
   that could change 
  detector scale, orientation, instr focus, etc. must be inbetween science OB and
   CAL OB execution!!)
  Given that one calibration field is at RA=05h and the other at RA=17h, March is
   the prefered month for
  this prg.

Special Execution Requirements

• Due to a problem of closing the loop on the ref source (USD-ticket of
   March 06),
  new aocfg configurations have been created. Three "alternative" OBs with different
   aocfg files
  are submitted (OB names reflect the differences). Please try first the point-source
  option than the disk-like, than binary option.

Special Calibration Information

• CALIBRATION OBs: 2 OBs for plate scale/field orientation and distortion
   measurement have been prepared
  (named CAL_xxx). 
  IMPORTANT FOR OB CAL_galcenter: stars named IRSxxx on the attached FC should always
   be in the FOV 
  and must not be saturated.

ToO Information

• N/A

ToO Activators List

• N/A

Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

• N/A

Source(s) of Pre-imaging

• ---(Empty)---

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 ?

• YES

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