Write astroplan tutorial  #73

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1. kelle commented on Dec 19, 2014

   

   kelle

   on Dec 19, 2014

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   I'd love to work on this at AAS Hack Day. (And the multiple model thing
   which was bounced around last week.)

   • what kinds of standard stars and which catalogs? Options which I can
     think of include A0 stars, flux standards, and guide stars.
   • what's the package for the visibility curves?

   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 <
   [email protected]> 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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3. cdeil commented on May 1, 2015

   

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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.
4. eteq

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   on Jun 3, 2015
5. kelle

   changed the title [-]Write "Preparing for an observing run" tutorial with new ICRS -> AltAz transform[/-] [+]Write astroplan tutorial [/+] on Sep 22, 2017
6. emilylurice commented on Sep 22, 2017

   

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   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.
7. kelle commented on Sep 22, 2017

   

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   Here are the existing ones in the astroplan repo:
   Observing the Summer Triangle
   Plotting with Astroplan
   Defining Observing Constraints
   Scheduling an Observing Run
8. kelle commented on Sep 24, 2019

   

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   This has come back up as part of Chapter 1 in the BOB project in #400