SOAR-4m Observing Run: October 30-November 1, 2017

Proposal: 2017B-0245 (Full Text)

Observing Strategy

• Instrumental Setup
• Nightly Observing Plan
• October/November 2017 Sky Calendar for CTIO
• Targets:
  • White Dwarf Candidates
  • Other (Secondary) Targets
  • Standard Stars
• Nightly Observing Logs

Guides

• Observing with SOAR
• SOAR Instrumentation
• Goodman High Throughput Spectrograph
  • Goodman Spectrograph Cheat Sheet
  • Step-by-Step User's Guide (web version (broken link), local version)
  • Available long slits (NEW: August 23, 2017)
• Goodman Acquistion Camera (GACAM) Users's Manual (web version, local version)
  • Goodman Acquistion Camera (GACAM) Cheat Sheet (web version, local version)
• Remote Observing from FNAL (DECam-specific)

Sky Conditions

• Tololo and Pachon Weather, Sky Conditions, and Monitoring Tools

Utilities

• SkyView
• MAPS finder chart engine
• DES Labs
  • Cutout Server
  • Footprint Server
• Brian Casey's Astronomy Tools:
  • Hourly Airmass Tables
  • Daily Almanac
  • Object Seasonal Observability
• Sky Chart for CTIO

Data Processing Material

• Example IRAF reduction notes for the night of 30-31 Oct 2017.
• Comparison Arc Spectra
  • HgAr: plot (3000A-7000A), linelists
  • HgAr+Ne: plot (3750A-7150A), plot (5000A-9000A), linelists

Forms

• General SOAR Instrument Setup Forms and Observing Reports
  • Instrument Setup Form
  • SOAR End-of-night form
  • SOAR End-of-run form
• Goodman Paper Log (web version, local version)