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Principal Investigator Email Address

• contini@ast.obs-mip.fr

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 61h13mn29sec

General Description

• Science objectives & strategy:  
  
  These observations are part of a Large Program (179.A-0823, PI: T. Contini, Following
   the mass assembly of galaxies at the key epoch 1.0 1h length).
  
  Comments on the number and differences between the Finding Charts: 
  
  Two Finding Charts (FC) are attached to each OB: 
  
  - The first one is based on DSS2 shallow near-infrared images in order to mimic
   what will be 
  seen on the screen by the observer. The scientific target is too faint to be visible
   on these FCs. 
  Nomenclature for these FCs is: 179.A-0823B.VVDSXXXXXXXXX_fc_final_dss.jpg 
  - The second FC is based on CFHT12K deep I-band images acquired by the VVDS. On
   the second FC, the faint scientific target is clearly visible in the SINFONI FoV.
  Nomenclature for these FCs is: 179.A-0823B.VVDSXXXXXXXXX_fc_final.jpg

Waiver Requests

• WaiverID:  179.A-0823C.01
  
  I am happy to inform you that your waiver request for OB duration
  longer than 1 hour for your SINFONI programme 179.A-0823(C) has
  been approved.  Please be informed that, although we will make
  every effort to ensure that your OB will be started in ambient
  conditions (seeing, transparency) that are equal or better than
  those requested, for OBs with duration longer than one hour, ESO
  does not guarantee that those conditions will be met for the entire
  duration of your observation.  If during the part of the observation
  lasting longer than 1 hour ambient conditions degrade beyond those
  requested within your OB, your OB will therefore not be aborted or
  repeated, as is standard service-mode observing policy for OBs with
  duration shorter than one hour.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• The most stringent constraints are good seeing conditions (< 0.8 arcsec)
   and a moderate airmass (< 2). These are in agreement with the conditions listed
   in Phase I proposal.

Time-Critical Aspects

• none

Special Execution Requirements

• none

Special Calibration Information

• If the scientific targets are observed at different airmasses, we would
   like at least one telluric star to be observed to match each of these airmass values:
   e.g. ~2, ~1.5 and ~1. But we don't need to have a telluric per OB of scientific
   target. Please for the telluric, select star hotter than B4 if available and use
   NDIT=1.

ToO Information

• none

ToO Activators List

• none

Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

• none

Source(s) of Pre-imaging

• ---(Empty)---

Pre-imaging sources not listed above

• CFHT12K

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?

• YES

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