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Principal Investigator Email Address

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contini@ast.obs-mip.fr
```

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

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16h59mn39sec
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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

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 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 (< 1.5). These are in agreement with the conditions listed
 in Phase I proposal.

Time-Critical Aspects

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none
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Special Execution Requirements

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none
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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. ~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.

ToO Information

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none
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ToO Activators List

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none
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Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

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false
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Pre-imaging Requirements

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none
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Source(s) of Pre-imaging

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Pre-imaging sources not listed above

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CFHT12K
```

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

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 ?

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

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N/A
```

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

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N/A
```

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

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N/A
```

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

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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?

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)?

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?

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

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?

Last creation of page: Tue Oct 6 15:40:20 2009
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