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Principal Investigator Email Address

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noyola@mpe.mpg.de
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Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

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3.5 hours
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General Description

The program uses the Argus and IFU modes of FLAMES in order to measure
 kinematics at various points for the globular cluster NGC 6388. 

The Argus section targets the very center of the cluster. Exact pointing is not
 crucial, as long as the center of the cluster is close to the middle of the IFU.
 Exact PA is also not important, it is set to 0 but it can have any angle. The three
 OBs are almost identical and have the same priority.

All (A) program OBs have higher priority than the (B) program OBs

The FLAMES guide stars were chosen from the USNO catalog. We tried to find them
 in SIMBAD to check the reported r-magnitude, but given that they are in a crowded
 field, they do not appear there. As far as we can check, there are no nearby stars
 within 10 arcsec of the chosen guide stars. The magnitudes are all between 11 and
 12.5 r-band magnitude as reported by the USNO catalog.

Waiver Requests

A waiver request was submitted on Feb 4th for this program. We asked to
 have OBs slightly larger than one hour to have a better distribution of observations
 given the length of our program (3.5 hours). The three OBs are 70 minutes long each.

The waiver request was approved on Feb 5th.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

The most important part of the observing constraints is the one for seeing
 < 0.8". Our ability to measure velocity dispersions with enough accuracy depends
 strongly on this request.

Time-Critical Aspects

No time critical aspects exist. The OBs can be executed in any order.

Special Execution Requirements

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None
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Special Calibration Information

We request one attached flat per OB. We want the flat to be taken in between
 the two data observations. This is with the goal of performing very accurate sky
 subtraction and fringing corrections.

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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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 ?

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

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

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

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

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N/A
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Did you specify in your OBs the hour angle range for which your Target Setup files are valid ?

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N/A
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Did you specify in your OBs the magnitudes of FACBs and Guide Star for all your fields ?

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N/A
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Are the FACBs and Guide Star in the brightness ranges specified in the FLAMES manual ?

Did you enter the expected signal to noise in your OBs ?

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N/A
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Last creation of page: Tue Oct 6 15:40:24 2009
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