Open adrn opened 9 years ago
I'd love to work on this at AAS Hack Day. (And the multiple model thing which was bounced around last week.)
I would vote for not going too crazy since everybody optimizes their target list in slightly different ways.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Adrian Price-Whelan < notifications@github.com> wrote:
We should show off the new features in a demonstration of how to prepare for an observing run. Rough sketch:
- Read in target list from text file with astropy.io.ascii
- Query catalogs to find nearby standard stars
- Plot visibility curves (airmass curves) for each object
If we want to go crazy, we could even optimize over slew time and "time-til-transit" to auto-generate a queue...
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FYI: in a few months we'll have an Astropy-affiliated package for this, there's two GSoC 2015 students working on this and others are interested: https://astroplan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Of course, if someone wants to write this tutorial now they should go ahead!
We can re-work it to use astroplan
for certain things later.
To keep the scope of this tutorial reasonably limited, I could imagine several tutorials becoming combined into a Guide on (Ground-based?) Observing, in general: writing target lists, making finder charts, finding standard stars, other calibrations, calculating exposure times, creating airmass plots, etc.
Here are the existing ones in the astroplan repo: Observing the Summer Triangle Plotting with Astroplan Defining Observing Constraints Scheduling an Observing Run
This has come back up as part of Chapter 1 in the BOB project in #400
We should show off the new features in a demonstration of how to prepare for an observing run. Rough sketch:
astropy.io.ascii
If we want to go crazy, we could even optimize over slew time and "time-til-transit" to auto-generate a queue...