H. E. Bond
						        7/25/03      

SMARTS 1.5m Service Observing Program

Night of Monday 2003 August 11-12
Times are UT-4

Sunset:   18:15    Twilight:  5:58
Twilight: 19:37    Sunrise:   7:19

Duration of night: 10:21

Moon age  +13 days.  RA/Dec: 2122-21
                     Sets:   07:54  
  
Sidereal time evening twilight: 16:15
              midnight:         20:38
	      morning twilight: 02:36




==> NOTE: Bond leaves town July 27 and will be away from e-mail most or all of
the time until Aug 12.  Fred Walter will be back in his office August 4 and
will be responsible for 1.5m service scheduling in 2003B starting then. <==




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Civil date      Setup   Program(s)   

Aug 11		56/II   Observing plan: http://www.stsci.edu/~bond/s15m030811.plan
			STSI 03b-11/BondPNN		
			STSI 03b-04/BondV838Mon 	
                        STSI 03b-08b/Walborn                   

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Name	Slit   Filter Coll Grating  Tilt &  Comp,exp   Ystart Ysize Yspec
	        	    Blaze  w.l. cov.
                           Res (A)

56/II   83.0   CuSO4  620    56     22.90   He-Ar 60	225    280    
                	    4900  4017-4938
                             2.2

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In afternoon or during dinner:
   - Install 56/II grating setup
   - check focus
   - obtain at least 10 Zero frames
   - obtain at least 5, preferably 10, flat-field frames (projector or dome)


The program tonight will be the same as Aug 4 and Aug 6
(http://www.stsci.edu/~bond/s15m030804.plan), with the following changes:

If any of the following were successfully observed on Aug 4 or Aug 6, they do
NOT need to be observed again tonight.  If they were not observed on Aug 4 or
Aug 6, then they SHOULD be observed tonight.

STSI 03b-11 1	HD 107369    12 20 45.0 -32 33 26   9.5 3x90   2
STSI 03b-11 1	Omega Cen 24 13 26 26.3 -47 16 27  10.8 3x150  2
STSI 03b-11 1	NGC 5986-W   15 46 03.3 -37 46 38  12   3x300  2
STSI 03b-11 1	NGC 5986-E   15 46 05.5 -37 47 01  12   3x300  2
STSI 03b-11 1	BD +14 3061  16 29 48.6 +14 15 44   9.5 3x75   2

The following star should be observed tonight:

STSI 03b-08 1+	HD 148937    16 33 52.2 -48 06 40   6.7 3x30   1


Otherwise the program is the same.  If possible, try to observe some of 
the stars at different hour angles (i.e., different UT) from August 4 and 6.