Instrument Setup (Preferred)
Generally, to avoid losing time, we should use a setup similar to the main program, as long as it covers a pretty large range of optical wavelengths. This pretty much restricts us to the 400l/mm grating or perhaps the 600l/mm grating. Otherwise, the following is a good setup for overing the wavelength range 3600A-7500A and keeps the annoying scattered light feature to a relatively innocuous part of the spectrum (~ 3600A):
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Instrument: Goodman HTS
Camera: Blue Camera
Grating: 400 ("SYZY_400")
Filters: None
CCD ROI Mode: Spectroscopic, binned 2x2
CCD Readout: 200kHz ATTN 2
Mask: 1-arcsec slit
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See also the Nightly Observing Plan.
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Last updated: 7 March 2019