[KIDS] OMEGACAM data Autoguider

Gijs Verdoes Kleijn verdoes at astro.rug.nl
Wed Mar 28 13:13:22 CEST 2012


Dear Oliver and Jelte,

Thanks Oliver for alerting to this.
This way I move this discussion to "mailinglist-space" to allow relevant 
other team members to participate, like our KiDS ingest master, Danny.

Best wishes, Gijs

Op 28-3-2012 12:27, Oliver Cordes schreef:
> Hi,
>
> On 28.03.12 11:03, Jelte de Jong wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it only 1 frame from this OB, or do all frames in this OB have the
>> same AG keyword setting?
>> I'm not aware of this potential problem...
>>
> I checked the 5 files from this OB 613001 and all have the same AG
> keyword ...  I randomly also checked files from last december which have
> also the same keyword ... so if there is nothing completely wrong with
> the observations  only the keyword in the FITS header is wrong ... ;-)
>
> Can you check this with ESO ?
>
>
> Cheers,
>      Oliver
>
>> Cheers,
>> Jelte
>>
>> On 28/03/12 10:54, Oliver Cordes wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I found serveral images, one example is:
>>>
>>> in OB: 613001
>>>
>>> rawframe-Name:
>>>
>>> OMEGACAM.2012-03-24T06:33:21.545.fits
>>>
>>> object name: KIDS_186.0_1.5
>>> filter: g_SDSS
>>> date_obs: 2012-03-24T06:33:21.545
>>>
>>>
>>> As I said  there are a lot of images taken for KIDS and ATLAS which have
>>> the same autoguider status. So I was wondering if this is normal or just
>>> an error of the software ...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>       Oliver
>>>
>>> On 28.03.12 10:42, Jelte de Jong wrote:
>>>> Hi Oliver,
>>>>
>>>> no, that is not normal, the exposures are supposed to use guiding.
>>>> Could you tell me which OB this is (e.g. object name, filter,
>>>> date_obs)?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jelte
>>>>
>>>> On 28/03/12 09:11, Oliver Cordes wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just looked through several raw images of KIDS and found that one
>>>>> FITS
>>>>> entry regarding to the Autoguider status is set to off, which means
>>>>> for
>>>>> me at least that the autoguider was not active during observations? Is
>>>>> this normal?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>        Oliver
>>>>>
>

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