Re: updates from Mauna Kea??

From: Greg Aldering (aldering@panisse.lbl.gov)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 03:24:58 PDT

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    That's great news Mamoru! Now I can go to sleep knowing I don't have to
    wrangle with HST today, and that our search is no longer on life support!

    - Greg

    >Hi Greg,
    >
    >Kazu Shimasaku just sent me an e-mail, and he basically
    >finished SDFw.
    >
    >The images after cirrus went out (according to Kazu)
    >were about 52 min exposures in total.
    >
    >5 min x 8 = 40 min
    >6 min x 2 = 12 min
    >15sec x 1
    >38sec x 1 (happened to be taken due to the telescope control failure)
    >(There are some more data, 5min x 1 with cirrus and 5min x 3 with clouds.)
    >
    >The seeing was 0.5-0.7 arcsec, pretty good.
    >
    >As a whole, we believe this data set is better than the Suprime-Cam
    >March reference images of SS1-SS4.
    >
    >Naoki will send these data to LBL.
    >
    >So we now have two fields, SDF and SDFw, which will be probably
    >enough for a SN at z~1.2.
    >
    >They will observe SDFe tomorrow night.
    >
    >-Mamoru

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