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  • ESO's travel form (fill out 2 months before the run)
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  • IAU Bad Calibrator registry (at ESO, maintained by John Monnier, IAU workgroup on calibrators)
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  • IAU Bad Calibrator registry (at ESO, maintained by Christian Hummel, IAU workgroup on calibrators)
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  • ESO Archive Query Form
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  • ESO MIDI-specific archive-query form
  • General ESO Archive Query Form
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  • ESO MIDI Quality control and Health Check pages)
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  • ESO MIDI instrument page
  • ESO MIDI user page
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  • ESO MIDI page
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Calibrators

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Calibrators and Atmosphere

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  • IAU Bad Calibrator registry (at ESO, maintained by John Monnier, IAU workgroup on calibrators)
  • IR atmospheric transmission spectra
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  • Christian Hummel's page
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  • Christian Hummel's page
April 30, 2009, at 19:50 CET by leo -
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November 01, 2008, at 00:18 CET by rainer -
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  • Cheddar
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  • MIDI filter database
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MIDI

  • MIDISOFT-Webpage
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MIDI links

  • Official MIA+EWS page at Sterrewacht Leiden
    • MIA+EWS daily snapshot download page
  • MIDISOFT-Webpage at MPIA
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  • Christian Hummel's page
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  • MIDI at ASTRON
October 22, 2008, at 17:04 CET by leo -
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  • username: e.g. GTOP76 (= period for which you want to access information)
  • password: e.g. Nov05 (= begin of ESO semester + 1 month) [or did ESO semesters change from P77 to P80?]
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Catalogs

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Archive and catalogs

  • ESO Archive Query Form
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  • ESO MIDI instrument page
  • ESO MIDI user page
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Useful Tools

  • Catalogs
    • Simbad - Query by identifier
    • Aladin
    • NED Homepage
    • NED - Query by name
  • Flux / Magnitude Converter (N band)
  • Flux / Magnitude Converter (general)
  • uv_coverage (by Roy van Boekel): IDL script that gives info on which uv-points will be achieved under specified observation conditions
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Online Tools, links and script repository

Catalogs

Flux / Magnitude converter

  • N band
  • General (for point sources and extended sources, different photmetric systems)
  • General (for point sources, more photometric systems)

Calibrators

  • CalVin (online catalog of MIDI calibrator stars)
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Observation preparation

  • FIMS (to produce ESO Finding Charts)
  • StarAlt, a tool to calculate object altitudes
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  • JMMC's Aspro
  • uv_coverage (by Roy van Boekel): IDL script that gives info on which uv-points will be achieved under specified observation conditions

MIDI

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ESO / VLTI

  • ESO Observation Schedule Query Form
  • VLTI stations
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At the telescope

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At the telescope

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Preparation steps

  • Collect source information on the Targets? page. For a template, see e.g. CentaurusA?
  • Find out observability (LST / DL constraints) using Cheddar?
  • Produce staralt plots
  • Produce uv_coverage plots
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August 27, 2008, at 17:18 CET by 149.217.40.222 -
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Useful Tools

At the telescope

  • Target Change Request (additional or backup targets)
  • VLT Controlroom: Printer IP addresses:
    • HP LaserJet 4250dtn: 134.171.187.182
    • HP LaserJet 4350dtn: 134.171.224.96
    • ColorLaser: 134.171.187.173
  • Paranal Science Operations Website
    • Ambient Conditions Database
    • Weather Forecasts / for Advanced Users (including wind speed)

Preparation steps

  • Collect source information on the Targets? page. For a template, see e.g. CentaurusA?
  • Find out observability (LST / DL constraints) using Cheddar?
  • Produce staralt plots
  • Produce uv_coverage plots
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