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Principal Investigator Email Address

• spedicel@eso.org

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 23:34:35.000

General Description

• The main scientific goal of this experiment is to provide 
  detailed and homogeneous measurements of Galactic Cepheids 
  located across the Galactic disk. This means that our targets 
  are relatively bright field stars.
  
  The finding charts attached to the individual OBs are centered 
  on the target. For those objects that present bright neighborhoods
  we overplotted a "plus" symbol over the target.
  
  During the check-in of the OBs, we received a Verification 
  Message warning that for four targets (CP CMa, BC CMa, V773 Sgr, 
  V1954 Sgr) "Target cannot be observed at the meridian (-29 < dec 
  < -20)".
  We are aware of this problem, but fortunately two targets 
  (CP CMa & BC CMa), according to the object observability available 
  at the ESO web page, are visible with an airmass smaller than 1.5 
  for more than 1 hour at the end of September (morning).
  The other two targets (V773 Sgr & V1954 Sgr) are visible with an 
  airmass smaller than 1.5 for the entire night both in June and 
  in July.

Waiver Requests

• Please note that we also obtained two waivers:  
   
  1) 081.D-0928A.01
  
  We submitted this Waiver because for two faint targets  (V446 Mon,
  V447 Mon) the OBs are longer than 1 hour. 
  This Waver was submitted on 31st January 2008 and it was approved 
  on 1st  February 2008.
   
  2) 081.D-0928A.02:  
  
  We submitted this Waiver to change three targets wrt the list 
  submitted in Phase 1. The suggested changes are:
     - V367 Sct instead of V367 Sgr
     - V340 Ara & EV Sct instead of CN Sct & BC CMa.
  This Waver was submitted on 31st January 2008 and it was  
  approved on 1st February 2008.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• No Critical Observing Condition Constraints are required.

Time-Critical Aspects

• No Time-Critical Aspects are required.

Special Execution Requirements

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Special Calibration Information

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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

• FORS1 before 03/03

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 specified the S/N ratio at given wavelength in the User Comments
 field of each OB?

• YES

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 ?

• YES

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 need secondary guiding, are there suitable objects within 30 arcsec
 from your target ?

• N/A