From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 14:53:47 PDT
I just wanted to summarize the discussion to deepnews, since various
people have been left off of various bits of the discussion thus far.
The question: what to observe near 14h+5 tonight at CTIO.
The considerations:
(1) The CTIO reference run had bad seeing. Hence, if conditions are
good at CTIO it may not be optimum to search those fields with bad
references.
(2) If CFHT doesn't get good data before the Keck run starts, then
supernovae which will have good lightcurves from the rolling search
won't get spectra. Hence, if it looks like CFHT may not get good search
time the next few days, that would be a good thing to do.
(3) What CFHT time is available. At the phone meeting last week, I
thought they only had Tuesday. Julian tells us that they've got 25
hours over the next 4 nights.
(4) Hawaii weather predictions. It was bad all last week. It's clear
now. If we think there is a high probabilty that CFHT will get killed
the next four nights, then CTIO should search the CFHT fields. If we
think there is a good chance CFHT will get a good search night, then
CTIO should not.
(5) Finally, if CFHT does its own fields, but CTIO has good seeing, then
perhaps CTIO should search in some of the four Subaru SS fields at
14h+5, for which we have references from SuPrimeCam.
Discuss.
-Rob
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