FLWO Tillinghast 60-inch Observing Schedule
September-December 2008 (as of 08 October 2008)

Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of September 2008 (as of 08 October 2008)

August September October November December January 2009 Programs Mt. Hopkins PDF Schedules TDC 
DATE         MOON  INST    OBSERVER    PI AND PROGRAM   MMT
Sep  1 Mon   0.07  FAST    Peters      FAST Combo              LABOR DAY
Sep  2 Tue   0.13  "       "           "		PB/HS      
Sep  3 Wed   0.20  "       "           "		"      
Sep  4 Thu   0.28  "       "           "		"      
Sep  5 Fri   0.37  "       PB          "		MC/HS  
Sep  6 Sat   0.47  "       Groner      "		"      
Sep  7 Sun   0.56  "       "           "		"      
Sep  8 Mon   0.65  ECH     Esquerdo    ECH Combo        "      
Sep  9 Tue   0.74  "       "           "                PB/HS
Sep 10 Wed   0.82  "       PB          "
Sep 11 Thu   0.89  "       "           "
Sep 12 Fri   0.95  "       MC          "
Sep 13 Sat   0.98  "       "           "
Sep 14 Sun   1.00  "       "           "
Sep 15 Mon   0.99  "       Esquerdo    "
Sep 16 Tue   0.95  "       "           TRES Combo
Sep 17 Wed   0.89  "       "           "
Sep 18 Thu   0.81  TRES    "           "
Sep 19 Fri   0.71  "       MC          "
Sep 20 Sat   0.60  "       "           "
Sep 21 Sun   0.48  "       "           "
Sep 22 Mon   0.37  FAST    PB          FAST Combo
Sep 23 Tue   0.27  "       "           "
Sep 24 Wed   0.17  "       "           "
Sep 25 Thu   0.10  "       MC          "
Sep 26 Fri   0.04  "       "           "
Sep 27 Sat   0.01  "       "           "
Sep 28 Sun   0.00  "       PB          "
Sep 29 Mon   0.01  "       "           "
Sep 30 Tue   0.04  "       "           "

** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT 
**** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHT
SEP Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (16 nights)
Brown 182 (runaway stars) 1 night, Hora 183 (Cyg-X youngstars) 1 night, Kirshner 2 (SN) 3 nights, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 1 night, Wright 186 (IPHAS AGB stars) 1 night, Drake 157 (IPHAS Halpha) 1 night, Briceno 112 (Ori B1) 1 night, Torres M. 149 (TOO XRN) 1 night, Green 129 (ChaMP) 1 night, Green 165 (Broad abs. var. QSOs) 1 night, Huchra 141 (2MASS) 2 nights
NOTE: Projects are listed in order of decreasing priority per their TAC grades. Rare TOO targets (GRBs, XRNs) have highest priority.

TRES Combo for trimester
Torres (Trans Spec) 1 night, Latham (Trans follow-up) 12 nights, Torres (Low-mass Eclip) 8 nights.

Echelle Combo for trimester
Latham (Transit follow-up) 12 nights, Torres G. (Accurate masses sel. ecl. bin.) 6 nights, Torres G. (Pleiades bin search) 8 nights, Torres G. (Accurate masses evolved) 2 nights.

Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of October 2008 (as of 08 October 2008)

August September October November December January 2009 Programs Mt. Hopkins PDF Schedules TDC 
DATE         MOON  INST    OBSERVER    PI AND PROGRAM   MMT
Oct  1 Wed   0.09  FAST    MC          FAST Combo
Oct  2 Thu   0.15  ECH     "           ECH Combo
Oct  3 Fri   0.22  "       "           "
Oct  4 Sat   0.30  "       PB          "
Oct  5 Sun   0.39  "       "           "
Oct  6 Mon   0.48  "       "           "
Oct  7 Tue   0.58  "       MC          "
Oct  8 Wed   0.68  FAST    "           FAST Combo
Oct  9 Thu   0.77  TRES    "           Engineering
Oct 10 Fri   0.85  "       Szentgyorg. Astrocomb Eng.
Oct 11 Sat   0.92  "       "           "
Oct 12 Sun   0.97  "       "           "
Oct 13 Mon   0.99  "       "           "                       COLUMBUS DAY
Oct 14 Tue   1.00  "       "           "
Oct 15 Wed   0.97  "       Blake       M dwarfs
Oct 16 Thu   0.91  "       "           "
Oct 17 Fri   0.83  "       "           "                PB/HC
Oct 18 Sat   0.74  "       "           "                "
Oct 19 Sun   0.63  "       "           "                "
Oct 20 Mon   0.52  FAST    Tang        FAST Combo       "
Oct 21 Tue   0.40  "       "           "                MC/HC
Oct 22 Wed   0.30  "       "           "                "
Oct 23 Thu   0.21  "       "           "                "
Oct 24 Fri   0.13  "       "           "                "
Oct 25 Sat   0.07  "       "           "                PB/HC
Oct 26 Sun   0.03  "       PB          "
Oct 27 Mon   0.01  "       "           "
Oct 28 Tue   0.00  "       MC          "
Oct 29 Wed   0.02  "       "           "
Oct 30 Thu   0.05  "       "           "
Oct 31 Fri   0.10  "       "           "

** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT 
**** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHT
OCT Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (21 nights)
Brown 182 (runaway stars) 1 night, Hora 183 (Cyg-X youngstars) 2 nights, Kirshner 2 (SN) 3 nights, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 1 night, Wright 186 (IPHAS AGB stars) 1 night, Drake 157 (IPHAS Halpha) 1 night, Koenig 179 (W5 UV) 2 nights, Briceno 112 (Ori B1) 1 night, Torres M. 149 (TOO XRN) 1 night, Green 129 (ChaMP) 1 night, Green 165 (Broad abs. var. QSOs) 1 night, Huchra 141 (2MASS) 2 nights
NOTE: Projects are listed in order of decreasing priority per their TAC grades. Rare TOO targets (GRBs, XRNs) have highest priority.

TRES Combo for trimester
Torres (Trans Spec) 1 night, Latham (Trans follow-up) 12 nights, Torres (Low-mass Eclip) 8 nights

Echelle Combo for trimester
Latham (Transit follow-up) 12 nights, Torres G. (Accurate masses sel. ecl. bin.) 6 nights, Torres G. (Pleiades bin search) 8 nights, Torres G. (Accurate masses evolved) 2 nights.

Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of November 2008 (as of 08 October 2008)

August September October November December January 2009 Programs Mt. Hopkins PDF Schedules TDC 
DATE         MOON  INST    OBSERVER    PI AND PROGRAM   MMT
Nov  1 Sat   0.16  FAST    PB          FAST Combo
Nov  2 Sun   0.23  "       "           "
Nov  3 Mon   0.32  "       "           "
Nov  4 Tue   0.41  "       MC          "
Nov  5 Wed   0.50  "       "           "
Nov  6 Thu   0.60  ECH     "           ECH Combo
Nov  7 Fri   0.70  "       Stefanik    "                PB/HC
Nov  8 Sat   0.79  "       "           "                "
Nov  9 Sun   0.88  "       "           "                "
Nov 10 Mon   0.94  "       "           "                "
Nov 11 Tue   0.98  "       "           "                MC/HC  VETERANS DAY
Nov 12 Wed   1.00  "       Esquerdo    "                "
Nov 13 Thu   0.98  TRES    "           TRES Combo       "
Nov 14 Fri   0.94  "       "           "                "
Nov 15 Sat   0.86  "       "           "                PB/HC
Nov 16 Sun   0.77  "       "           "                PB/HS
Nov 17 Mon   0.67  "       "           "                "
Nov 18 Tue   0.56  FAST    Wright      FAST Combo       "
Nov 19 Wed   0.45  "       "           "                MC/HS
Nov 20 Thu   0.35  "       "           "                "
Nov 21 Fri   0.25  "       "           "                MC/HC
Nov 22 Sat   0.17  "       "           "                "
Nov 23 Sun   0.10  "       Vaz         "                PB/HC
Nov 24 Mon   0.05  "       "           "                PB/HS
Nov 25 Tue   0.02  "       "           "                "
Nov 26 Wed   0.00  "       "           "                "
Nov 27 Thu   0.00  "       "           "                MC/HS   THANKSGIVING
Nov 28 Fri   0.02  "       "           "                "
Nov 29 Sat   0.06  "       Cambridge   "                "
Nov 30 Sun   0.11  "       "           "                "

** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT 
**** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHT
NOV Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (18 nights)
Brown 182 (runaway stars) 1 night, Hora 183 (Cyg-X youngstars) 2 nights, Kirshner 2 (SN) 3 nights, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 1 night, Wright 186 (IPHAS AGB stars) 1 night, Drake 157 (IPHAS Halpha) 1 night, Koenig 179 (W5 UV) 1 night, Briceno 112 (Ori B1) 1 night, Wilkes 185 (NGC 3227) 1 night, Torres M. 149 (TOO XRN) 1 night, Green 129 (ChaMP) 1 night, Green 165 (Broad abs. var. QSOs) 1 night, Huchra 6 (AGNWATCH) 0.5 night, Tang 184 (M44) 3 nights, Huchra 141 (2MASS) 2 nights.
NOTE: Projects are listed in order of decreasing priority per their TAC grades. Rare TOO targets (GRBs, XRNs) have highest priority.

TRES Combo for trimester
Torres (Trans Spec) 1 night, Latham (Trans follow-up) 12 nights, Torres (Low-mass Eclip) 8 nights.

Echelle Combo for trimester
Latham (Transit follow-up) 12 nights, Torres G. (Accurate masses sel. ecl. bin.) 6 nights, Torres G. (Pleiades bin search) 8 nights, Torres G. (Accurate masses evolved) 2 nights.

Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of December 2008 (as of 08 October 2008)

August September October November December January 2009 Programs Mt. Hopkins PDF Schedules TDC 

DATE         MOON  INST    OBSERVER    PI AND PROGRAM MMT  
Dec  1 Mon   0.17  FAST    Hora        FAST Combo       PB/HS
Dec  2 Tue   0.25  "       "           "                "                
Dec  3 Wed   0.34  "       "           "                "                
Dec  4 Thu   0.43  "       "           "                "                
Dec  5 Fri   0.53  ECH     Stefanik    ECH Combo        MC/HS
Dec  6 Sat   0.64  "       "           "                "                
Dec  7 Sun   0.74  "       "           "                "                
Dec  8 Mon   0.83  "       "           "                
Dec  9 Tue   0.91  "       "           "
Dec 10 Wed   0.97  "       "           "
Dec 11 Thu   1.00  "       "           "
Dec 12 Fri   0.99  "       Esquerdo    "
Dec 13 Sat   0.96  TRES    "           TRES Combo
Dec 14 Sun   0.90  "       MC          "
Dec 15 Mon   0.81  "       "           "
Dec 16 Tue   0.72  "       "           "
Dec 17 Wed   0.61  "       PB          "
Dec 18 Thu   0.51  FAST    "           FAST Combo
Dec 19 Fri   0.41  "       "           "
Dec 20 Sat   0.31  "       MC          "
Dec 21 Sun   0.22  "       "           "
Dec 22 Mon   0.15  "       "           "
Dec 23 Tue   0.09  "       PB          "
Dec 24 Wed   0.04  "       "           "
Dec 25 Thu   0.01  "       "           "                       CHRISTMAS
Dec 26 Fri   0.00  "       MC          "
Dec 27 Sat   0.01  "       "           "
Dec 28 Sun   0.03  "       "           "
Dec 29 Mon   0.07  "       PB          "
Dec 30 Tue   0.12  "       "           "
Dec 31 Wed   0.19  "       "           "

** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT 
**** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHT
Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (18 nights)
Brown 182 (runaway stars) 1 night, Kirshner 2 (SN) 3 nights, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 1 night, Wright 186 (IPHAS AGB stars) 1 night, Drake 157 (IPHAS Halpha) 1 night, Koenig 179 (W5 UV) 1 night, Briceno 112 (Ori B1) 1 night, Wilkes 185 (NGC 3227) 1 night, Torres M. 149 (TOO XRN) 1 night, Green 129 (ChaMP) 1 night, Green 165 (Broad abs. var. QSOs) 1 night, Tang 184 (M44) 3 nights, Huchra 141 (2MASS) 2 nights.
NOTE: Projects are listed in order of decreasing priority per their TAC grades. Rare TOO targets (GRBs, XRNs) have highest priority.

TRES Combo for trimester
Torres (Trans Spec) 1 night, Latham (Trans follow-up) 12 nights, Torres (Low-mass Eclip) 8 nights.

Echelle Combo for trimester
Latham (Transit follow-up) 12 nights, Torres G. (Accurate masses sel. ecl. bin.) 6 nights, Torres G. (Pleiades bin search) 8 nights, Torres G. (Accurate masses evolved) 2 nights.

Tillinghast Proposal Summary September-December 2008

August September October November December January 2009 Programs Postscript PDF Schedules TDC 
Inst  Program                            P.I.        Nights
FAST    2  Supernovae                    Kirshner      12
FAST    6  AGNWATCH                      Huchra         0.5
FAST   12  Symbiotic Stars               Kenyon         4
FAST  112  PMS in Orion                  Briceno        4 
FAST  129  Bright ChaMP Sources          Green          4
FAST  141  Mapping Nearby Universe       Huchra         8
FAST  149  Black Hole XRay Novae         M.Torres       4
FAST  157  Bright IPHAS Emission Sources Drake          4
FAST  165  Quasar Absorption Variability Green          4
FAST  179  OB Stars in W5                Koenig         4
FAST  182  Runaway B Stars               Brown          4
FAST  183  Young Stars near Cygnus-X     Hora           5
FAST  184  M44 Variables                 Tang           6
FAST  185  NGC 3227 Monitoring           Wilkes         2
FAST  186  IPHAS-selected AGB Stars      Wright         4

TRES  11 Transiting System Spectroscopy   G.Torres      1
TRES  13 Transit Follow-up                Latham       12
TRES   9 Low-mass Eclipsing Binaries      G.Torres      8

ECH 103 Transit Follow-up                Latham        12
ECH ??? Accurate Masses Eclips. Binaries G.Torres       6
ECH ??? Pleiades Binary Search           G.Torres       8
ECH ??? Accurate Masses Evolved Binaries G.Torres       2