Changes between Version 124 and Version 125 of PublicPages/MayallZbandLegacy/NotesforObservers

Timestamp:

Mar 4, 2016 10:50:51 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

David Schlegel

Comment:

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PublicPages/MayallZbandLegacy/NotesforObservers

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 = [3] Create nightly plan =
 
-Arjun or David should have provided a set of 3 nightly plan files in JSON format that specify
-pass 1, pass 2 or pass 3 tiles for timestamps through the night, which will appear after you update the code in 
-[https://desi.lbl.gov/trac/browser/decam/code/mosaic3/trunk/json ~products/mosaic3/json] .
-The selection of pass number while observing will depend upon the weather conditions as
+There are 3 nightly plan files, one with a list of tiles to observe for each of the 3 passes.
+These files are in JSON format, and specify the pass 1, pass 2 or pass 3 tiles to be observed
+at each timestamp through the night.  The selection of pass number while observing will depend upon the weather conditions as
 described at [wiki:MayallZbandLegacy/ObservingStrategy], and will either be selected
 automatically or can be forced by the user.
 
-Copy the 3 plan files for tonight's local date to the default location used by "obsbot".
-For example, for the night 11/12 Feb 2016:
-{{{
-   cp ~/products/mosaic3/json/2016-02-11-p1.json obsbot/pass1.json
-   cp ~/products/mosaic3/json/2016-02-11-p2.json obsbot/pass2.json
-   cp ~/products/mosaic3/json/2016-02-11-p3.json obsbot/pass3.json
-}}}
 
 The IDL
@@ -156 +148 @@
 is used to create the above plan files,
 as described at [wiki:MayallZbandLegacy/ObservingStrategy#NightlyStrategy]
+
+Arjun or David may have already provided a set of plan files for the night and posted a note
+to the mayall-obs e-mail list saying so.  These files would be checked into the "mosaic3" product here:
+{{{
+   ~/products/mosaic3/json/<DATE>-p1.json
+   ~/products/mosaic3/json/<DATE>-p2.json
+   ~/products/mosaic3/json/<DATE>-p3.json
+}}}
+and copied into the observing directory where they are read by MosBot here:
+{{{
+   ~/obsbot/pass1.json
+   ~/obsbot/pass2.json
+   ~/obsbot/pass3.json
+}}}
+
+If the plan files have not been generated for the night, please do so as follows:
+{{{
+   idl
+   mstrategy, copydir='/home/mzls/obsbot'
+}}}
+Then check in the plan files to the "mosaic3" product as follows:
+{{{
+   cd ~/products/mosaic3/json
+   svn add *.json
+   svn commit *.json
+}}}
+There are plot files in that directory too, but we don't check those in.
 
 Deprecated instructions using a modified version of "nightlystrategy" is at [wiki:MayallZbandLegacy/NightlyStrategyOld]