REVISED ARC 3.5M SCHEDULE FOR 4TH QUARTER 2000 E. TURNER 11/27/00 NOTES: ***PLEASE READ*** 11/27/00 NOTE: Assignment of DD02 time; one half night of DD02 time remains available (second half of 12/24). 10/6/00 NOTE: Mostly minor changes and swaps affecting several UW programs, JH04 and JH09, PU04 and DD03, and NM01 and UM03. Except in cases where strong science drivers dictate otherwise (a minority of cases), observing time has again been scheduled in half night blocks. Scheduled engineering time for this quarter amounts to 6.5 nights. Thus, it will be at approximately the 7% level. In addition to scheduled engineering time, science observations may be pre-empted, sometimes on short notice, for urgent engineering tasks. Such tasks include both work that is required to safeguard observatory personnel or facilities and that allows "hot pursuit" of some significant problem. DD02 is a set aside of four half nights (2B, 2D) of observing time for rapid follow-up of targets identified by the SDSS or for other quick response target-of-opportunity programs. Details of the project and procedures for obtaining access to DD02 time are given in apo35-general message #425. There is no OPEN time in this preliminary version of the schedule. ACCOUNTING NOTE: WSU sold all 10 half nights of its time to the University of Minnesota for 4Q2000. These programs are identified as UM time in this schedule. Please see links off of the APO home page (http://www.apo.nmsu.edu/) for a web based interactive version of this schedule. ----- EN Note: No science observations scheduled during EN time. ----- EN01 = EN01 Gill ? O Routine periodic engineering time. ----- DD Note: Director's Discretionary Time (3.8% of total) ----- DD01 = 004DD01 Wood FabPer O These observations involve the use of a visitor instrument. The time is scheduled contingent upon the PI obtaining Bruce Gillespie's explicit agreement that all the technical and logistical arrangements involving the instrument are satisfactory at least 10 days prior to the scheduled observations. DD02 = 004DD02 TBD TBD TBD DD03 = 004DD03 Holt S O DD04 = 004DD04 Nara D R (low?) Please specify requested DIS grating. Low dispersion assumed. DD05 = 004DD05 McGh D O (low, high) ----- JHU Note: 100% of nominal share scheduled. No flexibility time added to any programs because no instructions provided for their disposition. ----- JH01 = JH01 Goli D R (medium, low) JH02 = JH02 Goli D R (medium, low) This program not scheduled because it is an exact duplicate of JH01, apparently submitted in error, and there seems to be no time allotted to it in the JHU "budget". JH03 = JH03 Ande E R JH04 = JH04 Goli D R (low) Scheduling constraints do not make sense because bright and dark time requested but only dark allocated by the TAC. Also, only DIS (no GRIM) time was scheuduled since only dark time allocated by TAC. JH05 = JH05 Wyse G R JH06 = JH06 Mart D O (low) Note that TAC only allocated 1 of the 3 requested half nights. Program still scheduled as on-site, but this may not make sense for only a single half night. Also requested late October time not available at this priority; best available time scheduled instead. Please declare OPEN ASAP if it is not usable. JH07 = JH07 McCa E R JH08 = JH08 Tran D R (low) JH09.D = JH09 Zhen D R (low) JH09.G = JH09 Zhen G R ----- NMSU Note: 92% of nominal share scheduled. Flexibility time added to NM03 and NM05. Submitting low ranked proposals with strict scheduling constraints for the typically most in-demand parts of the quarter is virtually certain to result in their not being scheduled, a fate which befell 3 NMSU programs this quarter. NM01 and NM02 seem to have been reversed in the time budget table; the designations and priorities indicated on the individual scheduling requests have been used instead of those given in the table. ----- NM01 = NM01 Chan AOTF/AImS O These observations involve the use of a visitor instrument. The time is scheduled contingent upon the PI obtaining Bruce Gillespie's explicit agreement that all the technical and logistical arrangements involving the instrument are satisfactory at least 10 days prior to the scheduled observations. NM02 = NM02 Chan G O NM03 = NM03 Step G O NM04 = NM04 Geli G R NM05 = NM05 Holt D R? (medium) Requested October 1st half not available at this priority; it is the most in demand category of time for this quarter. NM06 = NM06 Walt D O (high, medium) Specifically requested dates not available at this priority where they were dark (as allocated) plus many were bright time. Two gray half nights in one of the windows scheduled instead. If not usable, please declare OPEN ASAP. NM07 = NM07 Klyp D O? (medium) Two dark half nights not available in requested windows; one dark and one gray scheduled. Please declare OPEN ASAP if not usable. NM08 = NM08 Hame S R No dark first halves available at this priority; please declare OPEN ASAP if scheduled second halves are not usable. NM09 = NM09 Hame D R (high) Not scheduled. Requested time not available at this priority. NM10 = NM10 Harr D R (high, low) Not scheduled. Requested time not available at this priority. NM11 = NM11 Klei S O Not scheduled. Requested time not available at this priority. ----- PU Note: 104% of nominal share scheduled. Flexibility time added to PU02. Two half nights of unassigned PU bright time added to PU05. ----- PU01 = PU01 Pind D R (low) PU02 = PU02 Stra D R (low) PU03 = PU03 Bowe D R (high, low) No dark time available in October at this priority. PU04 = PU04 Turn S O Non-block scheduling. See note in BLOCK CAPS just before schedule below. PU05 = PU05 Stra G R ----- UC Note: 103% of nominal share scheduled. Flexibility time added to UC06. No tabulation of time budget provided. ----- UC01 = 351 York E R UC02 = 349 York FabPer O These observations involve the use of a visitor instrument. The time is scheduled contingent upon the PI obtaining Bruce Gillespie's explicit agreement that all the technical and logistical arrangements involving the instrument are satisfactory at least 10 days prior to the scheduled observations. UC03 = 354 Frie D R (low) UC04 = 350 Hobb E R UC05 = 352 Tram G R Time not available as requested, but Dec first halves when target should be available scheduled instead. If not usable, declare OPEN ASAP. UC06 = 355 York E R UC07 = 353 York G/S/D/E R Adler Planetarium twilight program (not accounted to UC). Use instrument mounted for the night's first program. Non-block scheduling. See note in BLOCK CAPS just before schedule below. All three requested nights scheduled. Ninety minute sessions are no longer available due to a change in the general policy of the Observatory re schedulable/chargeable time to include the half hours before each evening and after each morning astronomical twilight; these have been found to be scientifically useful. ----- UM Note: 100% of nominal share scheduled. ----- UM01 = UM01 Skil D O (medium) UM02 = UM02 Hump S O UM03 = UM03 Jone G O UM04 = UM04 Hump D O (high) Not scheduled. No time allocated by TAC. ----- UW Note: 104% of nominal share scheduled. Flexibility time added to UW05. Time allocations listed in the individual requests did not agree with those tabulated in the overall summary (which appears to correspond to the TAC allocation?). UW Scheduler - please edit individual requests to match TAC allocations in the future; this will save me a lot of time and confusion. Also, budget tablulation contains an arithmetic error; extra half night of bright time apparently allocated by the TAC was deleted from UW08. ----- UW01 = UW01 Ande D R (low) UW02 = UW02 Szko D R (high) Requested gray second half during 10/29-11/3 does not exist; it is all dark in that interval. UW03 = UW03 Hawl D R (high) UW04 = UW04 Hawl D R (low) UW05 = UW05 Stub S R UW06 = UW06 Hodg D/S R (medium) No indication is given of which half nights should be scheduled with DIS and which with SPIcam. Please inform APO staff and me which scheduled nights should be assigned to which instrument. If it is desired that both should available on some/all nights, please so indicate. UW07.G = UW07.G Kris G R UW07.S = UW07.S Kris S R UW08 = UW08 Rodg E R TAC allocated one more half night of bright time than was allotted to UW; allocation for this program thus reduced from 6 to 5 half nights. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MOST PROGRAMS ARE SCHEDULED IN HALF NIGHT BLOCKS. THE FIRST HALF OF EACH NIGHT EXTENDS FROM -12 DEGREE EVENING TWILIGHT UNTIL 0110 MDT OR 0010 MST. THE SECOND HALF FOLLOWS UNTIL -12 DEGREE MORNING TWILIGHT. FIRST HALF IS INDICATED BELOW AS "A"; THE SECOND, AS "B". THIS QUARTER THREE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS USE NON-BLOCK SCHEDULING. THESE PROGRAMS ARE INDICATED IN PARENTHESES () ON THE SCHEDULE AND THEIR TIME ALLOTMENTS ARE LISTED HERE: DD03 = 70 MIN EACH TIME SCHEDULED. PU04 = 45 MIN EACH TIME SCHEDULED. UC07 = 60 MIN PRIOR TO -12 DEGREE TWILIGHT EACH TIME SCHEDULED. INSTRUMENT CHANGE TIMES ARE NOT INCLUDED BELOW BUT WILL BE INDICATED IN THE SCHEDULE ISSUED FROM APO AND WILL BE SHARED BETWEEN ADJOINING PROGRAMS AS USUAL. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 10/1 A: (PU04)/PU02 B: JH09.D 10/2 A: UW02 B: UW03 10/3 A: PU02 B: UC03 10/4 A: (PU04)/UW07.S B: UW06 10/5 A: EN01 B: UW02 10/6 A: (UC07)/UW04 B: UW04 10/7 A: (DD03)/JH03 B: UW04 10/8 A: JH01 B: UW03 10/9 A: (PU04)/NM04 B: NM04 10/10 A: EN01 B: EN01 10/11 A: EN01 B: EN01 10/12 A: EN01 B: EN01 10/13 A: (UC07)/(PU04)/PU05 B: PU05 10/14 A: PU05 B: PU05 10/15 A: PU05 B: PU05 10/16 A: (PU04)/UW07.G B: UW06 10/17 A: UC01 B: UC01 10/18 A: UC01 B: UC01 10/19 A: (PU04)/UC01 B: UC01 10/20 A: (UC07)/UW03 B: UW03 10/21 A: DD01 B: JH05 10/22 A: (PU04)/DD01 B: DD01 10/23 A: UC02 B: UC02 10/24 A: UC02 B: UC02 10/25 A: (PU04)/UC02 B: UC02 10/26 A: UC02 B: UC02 10/27 A: (UC07)/PU01 B: PU01 10/28 A: (PU04)/UM01 B: UM01 10/29 A: UM01 B: UM01 10/30 A: UW02 B: UW02 10/31 A: (PU04)/UM02 B: UC03 11/1 A: UM02 B: UW05 11/2 A: UW01 B: UW05 11/3 A: (UC07)/(PU04)/UW01 B: UW02 11/4 A: UW01 B: UW05 11/5 A: UW01 B: JH05 11/6 A: (PU04)/UW01 B: JH07 11/7 A: (PU04)/UC04 B: PU05 11/8 A: EN01 B: EN01 11/9 A: EN01 B: EN01 11/10 A: UM03 B: UM03 11/11 A: UM03 B: UM03 11/12 A: NM01 B: NM01 11/13 A: (PU04)/UC04 B: NM01 11/14 A: UC04 B: NM01 11/15 A: UC04 B: NM01 11/16 A: (PU04)/UC04 B: NM01 11/17 A: (UC07)/UC04 B: PU05 11/18 A: UW01 B: UC05 11/19 A: (PU04)/UW01 B: UC06 11/20 A: PU02 B: UC06 11/21 A: PU01 B: PU01 11/22 A: (PU04)/PU02 B: UC06 11/23 A: PU03 B: UW05 11/24 A: PU03 B: NM08 11/25 A: (PU04)/PU03 B: NM08 11/26 A: UW05 B: UW05 11/27 A: UC03 B: UC03 11/28 A: (PU04)/PU01 B: PU01 11/29 A: PU01 B: NM05 11/30 A: UC04 B: NM05 12/1 A: (UC07)/(PU04)/NM06 B: DD04 12/2 A: NM06 B: NM05 12/3 A: UW06 B: NM05 12/4 A: (PU04)/UC01 B: UW02 12/5 A: UW03 B: UW03 12/6 A: UC05 B: UW06 12/7 A: (PU04)/UC05 B: JH09.G 12/8 A: (UC07)/UC05 B: NM03 12/9 A: UW07.G B: NM03 12/10 A: (PU04)/DD05 B: DD05 12/11 A: EN01 B: EN01 12/12 A: UW08 B: UW08 12/13 A: (PU04)/UW08 B: UW08 12/14 A: UW07.G B: UW08 12/15 A: NM04 B: NM04 12/16 A: (PU04)/NM07 B: UW05 12/17 A: NM07 B: PU02 12/18 A: JH06 B: UW06 12/19 A: (PU04)/UW05 B: JH08 12/20 A: JH04 B: JH08 12/21 A: UW04 B: UC01 12/22 A: (PU04)/UW05 B: UC06 12/23 A: UW05 B: UC06 12/24 A: UW07.S B: DD02 12/25 A: (PU04)/UW05 B: UC06 12/26 A: UW06 B: UW06 12/27 A: UW06 B: UW06 12/28 A: (PU04)/UW06 B: JH04 12/29 A: UW07.S B: JH09.D 12/30 A: NM02 B: UC06 12/31 A: (PU04)/NM02 B: UC06 APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 466 in the apo35-general archive. 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