FLWO Tillinghast 60-inch Observing Schedule
January-April 2018

Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of January 2018 (as of 07 March 2018)

December 2017 January February March April May 2018 Mt. Hopkins Programs PDF Schedules TDC Telescope log
DATE         MOON  INST    OBSERVER    PI AND PROGRAM   MMT
Jan  1 Mon   1.00  TRES    GE          TRES Combo       ---    NEW YEAR's DAY
Jan  2 Tue   0.98  "       "           "                ---
Jan  3 Wed   0.93  "       "           "                ---
Jan  4 Thu   0.85  "       "           "                ---
Jan  5 Fri   0.76  "       "           "                ---
Jan  6 Sat   0.66  "       "           "                ---
Jan  7 Sun   0.56  "       PB          "                ---
Jan  8 Mon   0.46  "       "           "                ---
Jan  9 Tue   0.36  FAST    MC          FAST Combo       ---
Jan 10 Wed   0.27  "       "           "                ---
Jan 11 Thu   0.19  "       "           "                ---
Jan 12 Fri   0.12  "       PB          "                ---
Jan 13 Sat   0.07  "       "           "                ---
Jan 14 Sun   0.03  "       MC          "                ---
Jan 15 Mon   0.01  "       "           "                ---    MLK DAY
Jan 16 Tue   0.00  TRES    "           TRES Combo       ---
Jan 17 Wed   0.01  "       GE          "                ---
Jan 18 Thu   0.04  "       "           "                ---
Jan 19 Fri   0.09  "       "           "                ---
Jan 20 Sat   0.15  "       "           "                ---
Jan 21 Sun   0.23  "       "           "                ---
Jan 22 Mon   0.32  "       PB          "                ---
Jan 23 Tue   0.42  "       "           "                ---
Jan 24 Wed   0.53  "       MC          "                ---
Jan 25 Thu   0.64  "       "           "                ---
Jan 26 Fri   0.75  "       "           "                ---
Jan 27 Sat   0.84  "       PB          "                ---
Jan 28 Sun   0.92  "       "           "                ---
Jan 29 Mon   0.97  "       MC          "                ---
Jan 30 Tue   1.00  "       "           "                ---
Jan 31 Wed   0.99  "       "           "                ---

** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT 
**** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHT 
JAN Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (7 nights) Brown 178 (HVS/ELM) 2 nights, Falco 220 (ASAS-SN) 0.5 night, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 0.5 night, Blanchard 225 (SLSNes, TDEs) 1 night, Kirshner 2 (SN) 3 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: Zhou 192 (Confirm planets massive stars) 5 nights, Latham 204 (Self-lensing) 4 nights, Irwin 183 (MEarth follow-up) 3 nights, Latham 12 (Transiting planets) 24 nights, Latham 186 (Spec K2) 12 nights, Quinn 199 (Giant planets) 3 nights, Rodriguez 208 (Tropical Jupiters) 3 nights, Quinn 206 (Hot Jupiters) 2 nights, Douglas 209 (Companions) 5 nights, Winters 198 (Late M Dwarfs) 6 nights, Torres 15 (Eclipsing binaries) 18 nights, Torres 6 (Pleiades binary survey) 5 nights.

Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of February 2018 (as of 07 March 2018)

December 2017 January February March April May Mt. Hopkins Programs PDF Schedules TDC Telescope log
DATE         MOON  INST    OBSERVER    PI and Program   MMT
Feb  1 Thu   0.95  TRES    GE          TRES Combo       ---
Feb  2 Fri   0.90  "       "           "                ---
Feb  3 Sat   0.82  "       "           "                ---
Feb  4 Sun   0.72  "       "           "                ---
Feb  5 Mon   0.63  "       "           "                ---
Feb  6 Tue   0.53  "       PB          "                ---
Feb  7 Wed   0.43  "       "           "                ---
Feb  8 Thu   0.34  FAST    MC          FAST Combo       ---
Feb  9 Fri   0.25  "       "           "                ---
Feb 10 Sat   0.18  "       "           "                ---
Feb 11 Sun   0.11  "       PB          "                ---
Feb 12 Mon   0.06  "       "           "                ---
Feb 13 Tue   0.02  "       MC          "                ---
Feb 14 Wed   0.00  "       "           "                ---
Feb 15 Thu   0.00  TRES    "           TRES Combo       ---
Feb 16 Fri   0.02  "       PB          "                ---
Feb 17 Sat   0.06  "       "           "                ---
Feb 18 Sun   0.11  "       GE          "                ---
Feb 19 Mon   0.18  "       "           "                MC/HC   PRESIDENT'S DAY
Feb 20 Tue   0.28  "       "           "                "
Feb 21 Wed   0.38  "       "           "                "
Feb 22 Thu   0.49  "       "           "                "
Feb 23 Fri   0.60  "       PB          "                ---
Feb 24 Sat   0.71  "       "           "                ---
Feb 25 Sun   0.81  "       MC          "                ---
Feb 26 Mon   0.90  "       "           "                ---
Feb 27 Tue   0.96  "       "           "                ---
Feb 28 Wed   0.99  "       GE          "                ---
**** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHT 
FEB Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (7 nights) Brown 178 (HVS/ELM) 2 nights, Falco 220 (ASAS-SN) 0.5 night, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 0.5 night, Blanchard 225 (SLSNes, TDEs) 1 night, Kirshner 2 (SN) 3 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: Zhou 192 (Confirm planets massive stars) 5 nights, Latham 204 (Self-lensing) 4 nights, Irwin 183 (MEarth follow-up) 3 nights, Latham 12 (Transiting planets) 24 nights, Latham 186 (Spec K2) 12 nights, Quinn 199 (Giant planets) 3 nights, Rodriguez 208 (Tropical Jupiters) 3 nights, Quinn 206 (Hot Jupiters) 2 nights, Douglas 209 (Companions) 5 nights, Winters 198 (Late M Dwarfs) 6 nights, Torres 15 (Eclipsing binaries) 18 nights, Torres 6 (Pleiades binary survey) 5 nights.

Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of March 2018 (as of 07 March 2018)

December 2017 January February March April May 2018 Mt. Hopkins Programs PDF Schedules TDC Telescope log
DATE         MOON  INST    OBSERVER    PI AND PROGRAM   MMT
Mar  1 Thu   1.00  TRES    GE          TRES Combo       ---
Mar  2 Fri   0.98  "       "           "                ---
Mar  3 Sat   0.93  "       PB          "                ---
Mar  4 Sun   0.87  "       "           "                ---
Mar  5 Mon   0.79  "       MC          "                ---
Mar  6 Tue   0.70  "       "           "                ---
Mar  7 Wed   0.61  "       "           "                ---
Mar  8 Thu   0.51  "       GE          "                ---
Mar  9 Fri   0.42  "       "           "                ---
Mar 10 Sat   0.33  "       "           "                ---
Mar 11 Sun   0.24  "       PB          "                ---
Mar 12 Mon   0.17  FAST    "           FAST Combo       ---
Mar 13 Tue   0.10  "       Berger      ASTRO100         ---
Mar 14 Wed   0.05  "       "           "                ---
Mar 15 Thu   0.02  "       "           "                ---
Mar 16 Fri   0.00  "       PB          FAST Combo       ---
Mar 17 Sat   0.01  "       "           "                ---
Mar 18 Sun   0.03  "       Challis     "                MC/HC
Mar 19 Mon   0.08  "       "           "                "
Mar 20 Tue   0.15  "       "           "                "
Mar 21 Wed   0.24  TRES    GE          TRES Combo       MC/MM
Mar 22 Thu   0.34  "       "           "                MC/HC
Mar 23 Fri   0.45  "       "           "                ---
Mar 24 Sat   0.57  "       "           "                ---
Mar 25 Sun   0.68  "       "           "                ---
Mar 26 Mon   0.78  "       MC          "                ---
Mar 27 Tue   0.87  "       "           "                ---
Mar 28 Wed   0.94  "       "           "                ---
Mar 29 Thu   0.98  "       "           "                ---
Mar 30 Fri   1.00  "       PB          "                ---
Mar 31 Sat   0.99  "       "           "                ---

** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT 
**** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHT 

MAR Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (6 nights) Brown 178 (HVS/ELM) 2 nights, Falco 220 (ASAS-SN) 0.5 night, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 0.5 night, Blanchard 225 (SLSNes, TDEs) 0.5 night, Kirshner 2 (SN) 3 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: Zhou 192 (Confirm planets massive stars) 5 nights, Latham 204 (Self-lensing) 4 nights, Irwin 183 (MEarth follow-up) 3 nights, Latham 12 (Transiting planets) 24 nights, Latham 186 (Spec K2) 12 nights, Quinn 199 (Giant planets) 3 nights, Rodriguez 208 (Tropical Jupiters) 3 nights, Quinn 206 (Hot Jupiters) 2 nights, Douglas 209 (Companions) 5 nights, Winters 198 (Late M Dwarfs) 6 nights, Torres 15 (Eclipsing binaries) 18 nights, Torres 6 (Pleiades binary survey) 5 nights.

Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of April 2018 (as of 07 March 2018)

December 2017 January February March April May 2018 Mt. Hopkins Programs PDF Schedules TDC Telescope log

DATE         MOON  INST    OBSERVER    PI AND PROGRAM   MMT
Apr  1 Sun   0.96  TRES    GE          TRES Combo       ---
Apr  2 Mon   0.91  "       "           "                ---
Apr  3 Tue   0.84  "       "           "                ---
Apr  4 Wed   0.77  "       MC          "                ---
Apr  5 Thu   0.68  "       "           "                ---
Apr  6 Fri   0.59  "       "           "                ---
Apr  7 Sat   0.49  "       PB          "                ---
Apr  8 Sun   0.40  "       "           "                ---
Apr  9 Mon   0.31  "       MC          "                ---
Apr 10 Tue   0.23  TRES    "           FAST Combo       ---
Apr 11 Wed   0.15  "       "           "                ---
Apr 12 Thu   0.09  "       PB          "                ---
Apr 13 Fri   0.04  "       "           "                ---
Apr 14 Sat   0.01  "       MC          "                ---
Apr 15 Sun   0.00  "       "           "                ---
Apr 16 Mon   0.02  TRES    "           TRES Combo       ---
Apr 17 Tue   0.06  "       PB          "                ---
Apr 18 Wed   0.13  "       "           "                ---
Apr 19 Thu   0.21  "       GE          "                ---
Apr 20 Fri   0.31  "       "           "                ---
Apr 21 Sat   0.42  "       "           "                ---
Apr 22 Sun   0.54  "       "           "                ---
Apr 23 Mon   0.65  "       "           "                ---
Apr 24 Tue   0.75  "       "           "                ---
Apr 25 Wed   0.84  "       "           "                ---
Apr 26 Thu   0.92  "       PB          "                ---
Apr 27 Fri   0.96  "       "           "                ---
Apr 28 Sat   0.99  "       MC          "                ---
Apr 29 Sun   1.00  "       "           "                ---
Apr 30 Mon   0.98  "       "           "                ---

** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT 
**** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHT 

APR Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (6 nights) Brown 178 (HVS/ELM) 2 nights, Falco 220 (ASAS-SN) 0.5 night, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 0.5 night, Blanchard 225 (SLSNes, TDEs) 0.5 night, Kirshner 2 (SN) 3 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: Zhou 192 (Confirm planets massive stars) 5 nights, Latham 204 (Self-lensing) 4 nights, Irwin 183 (MEarth follow-up) 3 nights, Latham 12 (Transiting planets) 24 nights, Latham 186 (Spec K2) 12 nights, Quinn 199 (Giant planets) 3 nights, Rodriguez 208 (Tropical Jupiters) 3 nights, Quinn 206 (Hot Jupiters) 2 nights, Douglas 209 (Companions) 5 nights, Winters 198 (Late M Dwarfs) 6 nights, Torres 15 (Eclipsing binaries) 18 nights, Torres 6 (Pleiades binary survey) 5 nights.

Tillinghast Proposal Summary January-April 2018 (as of 06 January 2017)

December 2017 January February March April May 2018 Programs PDF Schedules TDC

FAST Proposals

PINumTitleDarkGrayBright
Warren Brown178HVS/ELM Survey South800
Edo Berger196Astro 100: Undergraduate Education on the FLWO 1.5m Telescope300
Emilio Falco220Spectroscopy of Transients from the All-Sky Automated Survey for
SuperNovae: Big Science with Small Telescopes
200
Scott Kenyon12Optical Spectra of Symbiotic Stars200
Peter Blanchard225Spectroscopic and Photometric Follow-up of SLSNe and TDEs from PSST300
Robert Kirshner2Supernova Spectroscopy with FAST1200

TRES proposals

PINumTitleDarkGrayBright
George Zhou192Confirming and characterising planets around massive stars500
David W. Latham204Self-Lensing Binary Candidates400
Jonathan Irwin183MEarth Spectroscopic Follow-up300
David W. Latham13Transiting Planet Candidate Follow-Up - 60 inch6135
David W. Latham186Spectroscopic follow-up of K2 Planet Candidates066
Samuel Quinn200Giant Planets in Open Clusters003
Joseph Rodriguez208Confirmation and Characterization of Tropical Jupiters to Understand High Eccentricity Migration003
Samuel Quinn206Hot Jupiters, Formed In Situ002
Stephanie T. Douglas209The impact of companions on stellar rotational evolution050
Jennifer Winters198Characterizing the Nearby Northern Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs with TRES006
Guillermo Torres15Eclipsing binaries0018
Guillermo Torres6Pleiades binary survey005