H. E. Bond 6/27/03 SMARTS 1.5m Service Observing Program Night of Friday 2003 June 27-28 Times are UT-4 Sunset: 17:52 Twilight: 6:14 Twilight: 19:18 Sunrise: 7:40 Duration of night: 10:56 Moon age -2 days. RA/Dec: 0458+24 Rises 06:43 Sidereal time evening twilight: 12:58 midnight: 17:40 morning twilight: 23:54 .............................................................................. Civil date Setup Program(s) Jun 27 26/I Observing plan: http://www.stsci.edu/~bond/s15m030627.plan STSI 03a-03/Valenti STSI 03a-05/BondV838Mon SUNY 03a-15/WalterGal SUNY 03a-10/WalterTTau SUNY 03b-01/WalterPolarBears STSI 03a-02/BondPNN .............................................................................. Name Slit Filter Coll Grating Tilt & Comp,exp Ystart Ysize Yspec Blaze w.l. cov. Res (A) 26/I 110.5 clear 565 26 15.93 He-Ar 30 214 280 " 3550 3532-5300 4.3 .............................................................................. In afternoon or during dinner: - Install 26/I grating setup - obtain at least 10 Zero frames - obtain at least 5, preferably 10, flat-field frames (projector or dome) Get well-exposed twilight spectrum at zenith at beginning (or end) of night. Try for 5000-30000 counts/pixel. Main observing program is the first list below; observe as many of these as possible, until about 22:00 local time. Intermix programs as appropriate, and generally try to observe in order of RA. Get all of the Priority 1 if possible, and then Priority 2+, 2, and 3 if there is time. The objects in SUNY 03a-15 are galaxies. Make sure to observe HD 149382 just before starting on Abell 41. At 22:00, start the program on Abell 41 described below. Main program: Pgm Pri Target RA (J2000) Dec mag Exp Cmp Remarks SUNY 03a-15 2+ NGC 3059 09 50 07.9 -73 55 17 11.8 3x500 1 SUNY 03a-15 2+ NGC 3140 10 09 27.6 -16 37 41 14.8 3x500 1 SUNY 03a-15 2+ NGC 3361 10 44 29.0 -11 12 27 13.4 3x500 1 SUNY 03a-15 2+ NGC 3513 11 03 45.9 -23 14 39 11.9 3x500 1 SUNY 03a-15 2+ NGC 3672 11 25 02.3 -09 47 40 12.2 3x500 1 STSI 03a-03 3 V857 Cen 11 31 46.5 -41 02 47 11.5 3x400 1 SUNY 03a-15 2+ NGC 4666 12 45 08.7 -00 27 41 11.5 3x500 1 SUNY 03a-15 2+ NGC 4731 12 51 01.0 -06 23 34 11.9 3x500 1 STSI 03a-03 3 Prox Cen 14 29 42.9 -62 40 46 11.0 3x400 1 SUNY 03a-15 2+ IC 4212 13 12 03.0 -06 59 29 14.5 3x500 1 SUNY 03a-15 3 IC 971 14 03 52.7 -10 08 25 13.3 3x500 1 SUNY 03a-15 3 MCG-01-38-01214 58 30.0 -06 49 14 14.6 3x500 1 STSI 03a-02 1 HD 149382 16 34 23.3 -04 00 52 9.0 3x75 2 RV std SUNY 03a-15 3 ESO 140-G23 18 32 40.5 -57 40 15 13.3 3x500 1 STSI 03a-05 1 V4745 Sgr 18 40 02.5 -33 26 55 ~11 3x400 1 nova STSI 03a-03 2 V1216 Sgr 18 49 49.4 -23 50 10 10.5 3x300 1 STSI 03a-05 1 V4743 Sgr 19 01 09.4 -22 00 06 ~12 3x500 1 nova calib 1 Feige 110 23 19 58.4 -05 09 56 11.8 3x240 1 phot. std STSI 03a-05 1 NGC 246 00 47 03.4 -11 52 19 11.8 3x500 1 See note Note on NGC 246: the target is the central star of a planetary nebula. The star is a binary with a separation of 3".8. The slit should be placed on the brighter star. Monitoring program on central star of the planetary nebula Abell 41: Starting at about 22:00 local time, start obtaining repeated spectra of Abell 41, and continue for about 5.5 hours, i.e., until about 03:30 local time. Each exposure should be 600 seconds. Take a comparison before starting the monitoring, and a comparison between each 600-sec exposure, and a comparison at the end. STSI 03a-02 1 Abell 41 17 29 02.1 -15 13 04 15.6 600each See notes When the Abell 41 monitoring is completed, go back to the main program, or the backup program below. LMC Nova: there is an interesting new nova in the LMC. If it is possible, we would like to get a spectrum in the morning, but it will be very close to the 4m building. In order to observe it, you will have to wait until the star is clear of the 4m building, at which point the twilight will probably be rather bright. So, see if you can make this observation. If not, no problem, but we will be very excited if you can get any spectra! I have suggested 3 x 300 sec, but probably there will not be enough time to get all 3 before the twilight is too bright. The target is visible in the digitized sky survey, but now it is about 2-3 mag brighter. STSI 03a-05 1 LMC Nova 05 08 25.7 -68 26 23 ~12.5 3x300 1 nova Backup programs: Observe stars from following list only if none of the above are available. Charts for program SUNY 03b-01, if needed, are at http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/SMARTS/SUNY03b-01.tar.gz, or can be generated from any of the usual sky-survey websites. These stars are all variables and might be considerably fainter than indicated. If you try to observe any star and find that it is too faint to center in the slit, then do not observe but make a note that it is faint and send the information to Fred Walter. These stars should all have strong emission lines. STSI 03a-03 3 LU Vel 09 58 34.3 -46 25 30 11.3 3x400 1 STSI 03a-05 2 Lo 4 10 05 45.7 -44 21 32 16.6 3x900 1 SUNY 03a-10 3 TW Hya 11 01 51.9 -34 42 17 3x300 1 SUNY 03a-10 2 RU Lup 15 56 42.3 -37 49 15 3x300 1 SUNY 03a-10 2 V866 Sco 16 11 31.4 -18 38 24 3x300 1 SUNY 03a-10 3 V1121 Oph 16 49 15.3 -14 22 09 3x300 1 SUNY 03a-10 3 Oph 118 16 31 15.8 -24 34 02 3x300 1 SUNY 03a-10 3 V4046 Sgr 18 14 10.5 -32 47 34 3x300 1 SUNY 03a-10 2 S CrA 19 01 08.7 -36 57 20 3x300 1 SUNY 03b-01 3 QS Tel 19 38 35.7 -46 12 56 16 3x400 1 STSI 03a-03 3 AU Mic 20 45 09.5 -31 20 27 8.8 3x200 1 SUNY 03b-01 3 HU Aqr 21 07 58.3 -05 17 39 15.3 3x400 1 STSI 03a-03 3 FK Aqr 22 38 45.6 -20 37 16 9.1 3x200 1 STSI 03a-03 3 FL Aqr 22 38 45.2 -20 36 49 11.4 3x400 1 SUNY 03b-01 3 BL Hyi 01 41 00.2 -67 53 27 14.9 3x400 1 SUNY 03b-01 3 EF Eri 03 14 13.0 -22 35 41 14.5 3x400 1 General Notes: Finding charts for YALE 03a-08, STSI 03a-05, SUNY 03a-10 were already left at telescope in February. Charts for STSI 03a-03 are also at the telescope; note that most of the stars in this program have large proper motions, and the charts show the locations that they will have moved to in 2003. Targets for SUNY 03a-15 are galaxies; place slit on nucleus. Pri: Target priority. 1 = observe object if possible 2 = extra targets; observe only if no Priority 1 target is available 3 = backup targets; low priority RA & Dec: all coordinates are accurate to 1". Cmp: 1 means take comparison spectrum only before target exposures; 2 means before and after .............................................................................. Questions may be addressed to: Howard Bond bond@stsci.edu (program STSI 03a-02) Jeff Valenti valenti@stsci.edu (program STSI 03a-03) Fred Walter fwalter@astro.sunysb.edu (program SUNY 03a-10, 15) Jong-Hak Woo jhwoo@astro.yale.edu (program YALE 03a-08)