OPERATING THE DANISH 1.54M IN 2006 PLANET SEASON.

(inputs from JP Beaulieu, C. Coutures, J.C. Donatowicz, P. Fouqué)

The observer is responsible for everything :

- making sure that the cryostat is filled with N2 (they forgot from time to time to do it).

- starting up of the operation and closing of the dome.

- all the observing, online data analysis, transfer to chianti.iap.fr

- all backups.

In 2006, you have to understand that :

IMAGE QUALITY is the only thing that should concern you.

We absolutely don't care about about a flow of low S/N, badly

focussed, badly tracked frames. In any case, if you do not understand

that quality is the only thing that matters, you will really have fun with

pySIS or the WISIS processing...

A comment about the processing :

- It is straightforward to have both DoPhot and WISIS running in parallel.

- If you have a deviant point in WISIS, you should check the DoPhot result.

A critical eye at pySIS WISIS reduction :

It is important that people understand that with pyISIS or WISIS reductions, we will
have strongly deviant points : each time something will be screwed up somewhere
it will lead to one/few strongly deviant points. This will be much worse than
in the past. The scatter of good points might be smaller, but we will have
lots of deviant points. It is important that we all learn that, and do not
see planets with the same frenetic eye as in the 90s when we were learning
DoPhot and seeing planets everywhere dued to seeing correlations.
 

Checklist for starting the Bias PC (acquisition)

Checklist for the TCS (Telescope Control System)

Checklist for data processing

General instructions about calibrations (bias and flat fields)

Status report of May 12, 2006 (advices about how to operate)

How_to_dan 2006 version (being corrected now)