| | 13 | specialities/projects apropos since HETmarkII |
| | 14 | besides night-operations preparations/execution |
| | 15 | ----------------------------------------------- |
| | 16 | A done as far as it can progress so far, paused |
| | 17 | B waiting for resumed priority from mngmt, paused |
| | 18 | C done to handing-off point, availability to revisit |
| | 19 | D done |
| | 20 | E scope currently under discussion |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | TOPIC: control of observational phase-blocking/filling |
| | 23 | to suit several contrasting science driven modes modes (C) |
| | 24 | |
| | 25 | TOPIC: statistics of HET transparency/skybrightness/IQ |
| | 26 | data, broken down to calendrical month level; sky brightness |
| | 27 | modeling in conjunction with this (A) |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | TOPIC: (for agenda) scheduling optimization algorithm |
| | 30 | endowed with freedom to lead or lag the naive best time |
| | 31 | (target slot) approach out to some effciency criterion ; |
| | 32 | used method of mock queues scheduled according to some |
| | 33 | contrasting approaches; in short, contrasting with |
| | 34 | HETmarkI where nonzero lead/lag was not explicit in |
| | 35 | optimizing scheduling, a Priority-Trumps-All method |
| | 36 | (taking in many hours as a whole) does well now (not |
| | 37 | racking up time gapping interims), although it is good |
| | 38 | to have a backup On-the-Fly ("what's the best target I |
| | 39 | can do right now and onward from that choice?") |
| | 40 | schedule re-constituting trigger ready for really disrupted |
| | 41 | situations (A) |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | TOPIC: nightcam hardware function, software control, |
| | 44 | software reductions (B) |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | TOPIC: backup satellite focus images analyzer (psfsat), |
| | 47 | robust to hotpixels and streaks particularly, for if |
| | 48 | and when the current default analyzer has apparently given |
| | 49 | up (D, unless a backup also turns out necessary for nastier |
| | 50 | type sky fields as well, in which case an analog robust |
| | 51 | version psfsky, could be fashioned) |
| | 52 | |
| | 53 | TOPIC: work out decs for which the elevation 55 |
| | 54 | sidereal crossings proceed at the n x 45 deg |
| | 55 | d(alt in deg)/d(az in great circle deg) directions, |
| | 56 | and the start time corrections needed to plug into |
| | 57 | these tracks from start to finish, working only |
| | 58 | with htopx ; purpose was to get precisely timed and |
| | 59 | filled box-pointing exercises for tests instead of |
| | 60 | hit-and-miss outcomes (D) |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | TOPIC: photometry from guiders, goals of intra-night |
| | 63 | zeropoint control reliant on catalogued stars, and estimated |
| | 64 | magnitudes for uncatalogued stars reliant on intra-night |
| | 65 | zeropoint control (E) |
