Re: VLT tonight

From: clidman@eso.org
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 05:40:59 PDT

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    Dear Colleagues,
       Conditions on Paranal are improving. Seeing is about 1" and the wind is
    decreasing. However, it is still too strong for them to point towards our
    fields.

    Cheers, Chris.

    Saul Perlmutter wrote:

    > Chris, Don't forget that S02-057 is a Subaru field, so this can only be done for a
    > precise window of time in the night to stay below airmass of 1.6. (You may have
    > meant not to try this, or you may be heroicly trying to save our HST slot that has
    > to be pointing to the Subaru field.)
    >
    > clidman@eso.org wrote:
    >
    > > Dear All,
    > > Tonight on Paranal will probably be clear. Our main problem will be
    > > the wind and, probably, the seeing.
    > >
    > > If the switch from FORS2 to FORS1 is approved, I plan to spend the following
    > > amounts of time on the following targets.
    > >
    > > C02-013/Isntix 4800 seconds
    > > S02-057 4800 seconds
    > > T02-059 4800 seconds
    > >
    > > Cheers, Chris.

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