DATE MOON INST OBSERVER PI AND PROGRAM MMT Jan 1 Wed 0.41 TRES GE TRES Combo --- NEW YEAR's DAY Jan 2 Thu 0.50 " " " MC/MM Jan 3 Fri 0.60 " " " " Jan 4 Sat 0.69 " " " " Jan 5 Sun 0.78 " PB " " Jan 6 Mon 0.86 " " " " Jan 7 Tue 0.92 " GE " " Jan 8 Wed 0.97 " " " --- Jan 9 Thu 1.00 " " " --- Jan 10 Fri 1.00 " Yahalomi " --- Jan 11 Sat 0.97 " " " --- Jan 12 Sun 0.91 " " " --- Jan 13 Mon 0.84 " " " --- Jan 14 Tue 0.74 " " " --- Jan 15 Wed 0.63 " PB " MC/MM Jan 16 Thu 0.52 " " " " Jan 17 Fri 0.41 FAST Hyman FAST Combo MC/BI Jan 18 Sat 0.30 " " " " Jan 19 Sun 0.21 " " " " Jan 20 Mon 0.13 " " " " MLK DAY Jan 21 Tue 0.07 TRES GE TRES Combo " Jan 22 Wed 0.03 " " " --- Jan 23 Thu 0.00 " " " --- Jan 24 Fri 0.00 " " " --- Jan 25 Sat 0.02 " PB " --- Jan 26 Sun 0.05 " " " MC/BI Jan 27 Mon 0.10 " GE " " Jan 28 Tue 0.17 " " " " Jan 29 Wed 0.24 " " " MC/HS Jan 30 Thu 0.33 " PB " --- Jan 31 Fri 0.42 " " " --- ** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT **** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHTJAN Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (4 nights) Brown 230 (HVS/ELM) 2 nights, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 0.5 night, Gomez 233 (FLEET) 1 night, Falco 231 (BH/NS binaries) 1 night, Falco 220 (ASAS-SN) 0.5 night.
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:
Latham 218 (Spec TESS) 50 nights,
Zhou 212 (Nep & Jup) 12 nights,
Medina 211 (Flares) 5 nights,
Quinn 199 (Giant planets) 3 nights,
Irwin 183 (MEarth follow-up) 2 nights,
Carmichael 213 (Brown dwarfs TESS) 4.5 nights,
Winters 206 (HOT Jupiters) 6 nights,
Rodriguez 220 (young Jupiters) 4 nights,
Douglas 209 (Companions) 3 nights,
Torres 6 (Pleiades survey) 6.5 nights,
Torres 15 (Eclipsing binaries) 6 nights.
Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of February 2020
(as of January 3 2020)
December 2019
January February
March April
May
Mt. Hopkins
Programs
PDF
Schedules
TDC
Telescope log
DATE MOON INST OBSERVER PI and Program MMT Feb 1 Sat 0.51 TRES GE TRES Combo --- Feb 2 Sun 0.61 " " " --- Feb 3 Mon 0.71 " " " --- Feb 4 Tue 0.80 " PB " --- Feb 5 Wed 0.88 " " " --- Feb 6 Thu 0.94 " GE " MC/HC Feb 7 Fri 0.98 " " " " Feb 8 Sat 1.00 " " " " Feb 9 Sun 0.98 " " " " Feb 10 Mon 0.94 " PB " " Feb 11 Tue 0.87 " " " " Feb 12 Wed 0.78 " GE " " Feb 13 Thu 0.67 " " " --- Feb 14 Fri 0.56 " " " --- Feb 15 Sat 0.45 " " " --- Feb 16 Sun 0.35 " MC " --- Feb 17 Mon 0.25 " " " --- PRESIDENT'S DAY Feb 18 Tue 0.17 " " " --- Feb 19 Wed 0.10 " GE " --- Feb 20 Thu 0.05 " " " --- Feb 21 Fri 0.02 " " " --- Feb 22 Sat 0.00 " PB " --- Feb 23 Sun 0.01 " " " --- Feb 24 Mon 0.03 FAST Brown FAST Combo --- Feb 25 Tue 0.06 " " " --- Feb 26 Wed 0.11 " " " --- Feb 27 Thu 0.18 " " " --- Feb 28 Fri 0.26 TRES MC TRES Combo --- Feb 29 Sat 0.34 " " " --- **** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHTFEB Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (4 nights) Brown 230 (HVS/ELM) 2 nights, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 0.5 night, Gomez 233 (FLEET) 1 night, Falco 231 (BH/NS binaries) 1 night, Falco 220 (ASAS-SN) 0.5 night.
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:
Latham 218 (Spec TESS) 50 nights,
Zhou 212 (Nep & Jup) 12 nights,
Medina 211 (Flares) 5 nights,
Quinn 199 (Giant planets) 3 nights,
Irwin 183 (MEarth follow-up) 2 nights,
Carmichael 213 (Brown dwarfs TESS) 4.5 nights,
Winters 206 (HOT Jupiters) 6 nights,
Rodriguez 220 (young Jupiters) 4 nights,
Douglas 209 (Companions) 3 nights,
Torres 6 (Pleiades survey) 6.5 nights,
Torres 15 (Eclipsing binaries) 6 nights.
Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of March 2020
(as of January 3 2020)
December 2019
January February
March April
May 2020
Mt. Hopkins
Programs
PDF
Schedules
TDC
Telescope log
DATE MOON INST OBSERVER PI AND PROGRAM MMT Mar 1 Sun 0.44 TRES GE TRES Combo --- Mar 2 Mon 0.54 " " " --- Mar 3 Tue 0.64 " " " --- Mar 4 Wed 0.74 " " " --- Mar 5 Thu 0.83 " PB " --- Mar 6 Fri 0.91 " " " --- Mar 7 Sat 0.97 " GE " --- Mar 8 Sun 1.00 " " " --- Mar 9 Mon 0.99 " " " --- Mar 10 Tue 0.96 " " " --- Mar 11 Wed 0.90 " Yahalomi " --- Mar 12 Thu 0.81 " " " --- Mar 13 Fri 0.72 " " " MC/BI Mar 14 Sat 0.61 " " " " Mar 15 Sun 0.50 " " " " Mar 16 Mon 0.40 " " " " Mar 17 Tue 0.30 FAST Berger Berger Astro 100 " Mar 18 Wed 0.22 " " " --- Mar 19 Thu 0.14 " " " --- Mar 20 Fri 0.09 FAST Challis FAST Combo --- Mar 21 Sat 0.04 " " " --- Mar 22 Sun 0.01 " " " --- Mar 23 Mon 0.00 " " " --- Mar 24 Tue 0.01 TRES PB TRES Combo --- Mar 25 Wed 0.03 " " " MC/BI Mar 26 Thu 0.07 " GE " " Mar 27 Fri 0.13 " " " " Mar 28 Sat 0.20 " " " " Mar 29 Sun 0.28 " " " " Mar 30 Mon 0.38 " PB " " Mar 31 Tue 0.48 " " " " ** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT **** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHTMAR Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (4 nights) Brown 230 (HVS/ELM) 1 night, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 0.5 night, Gomez 233 (FLEET) 1 night, Falco 231 (BH/NS binaries) 1 night, Falco 220 (ASAS-SN) 0.5 night.
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:
Latham 218 (Spec TESS) 50 nights,
Zhou 212 (Nep & Jup) 12 nights,
Medina 211 (Flares) 5 nights,
Quinn 199 (Giant planets) 3 nights,
Irwin 183 (MEarth follow-up) 2 nights,
Carmichael 213 (Brown dwarfs TESS) 4.5 nights,
Winters 206 (HOT Jupiters) 6 nights,
Rodriguez 220 (young Jupiters) 4 nights,
Douglas 209 (Companions) 3 nights,
Torres 6 (Pleiades survey) 6.5 nights,
Torres 15 (Eclipsing binaries) 6 nights.
Tillinghast Schedule for the Month of April 2020
(as of January 3 2020)
December 2019
January February
March April
May 2020
Mt. Hopkins
Programs
PDF
Schedules
TDC
Telescope log
DATE MOON INST OBSERVER PI AND PROGRAM MMT Apr 1 Wed 0.58 TRES GE TRES Combo --- Apr 2 Thu 0.69 " " " --- Apr 3 Fri 0.79 " " " --- Apr 4 Sat 0.88 " MC " --- Apr 5 Sun 0.95 " " " --- Apr 6 Mon 0.99 " " " --- Apr 7 Tue 1.00 " PB " --- Apr 8 Wed 0.98 " " " --- Apr 9 Thu 0.93 " GE " --- Apr 10 Fri 0.85 " " " MC/HC Apr 11 Sat 0.76 " " " " Apr 12 Sun 0.66 " PB " " Apr 13 Mon 0.56 " " " MC/MC Apr 14 Tue 0.46 " GE " MC/HC Apr 15 Wed 0.36 " " " --- Apr 16 Thu 0.27 " " " --- Apr 17 Fri 0.19 FAST Gomez FAST Combo --- Apr 18 Sat 0.13 " " " --- Apr 19 Sun 0.07 " " " --- Apr 20 Mon 0.03 " MC " --- Apr 21 Tue 0.01 TRES " TRES Combo --- Apr 22 Wed 0.00 " " " --- Apr 23 Thu 0.01 " GE " --- Apr 24 Fri 0.04 " " " --- Apr 25 Sat 0.09 " " " --- Apr 26 Sun 0.15 " MC " --- Apr 27 Mon 0.23 " " " --- Apr 28 Tue 0.33 " " " --- Apr 29 Wed 0.43 " PB " --- Apr 30 Thu 0.54 " " " --- ** MOON IS FRACTIONAL MOON ILLUMINATION AT MIDDLE OF NIGHT **** DATE IS STANDARD TIME AT START OF NIGHTAPR Fast Combo (program & effective nights): (5 nights) Brown 230 (HVS/ELM) 1 night, Kenyon 12 (Symbiotic) 0.5 night, Gomez 233 (FLEET) 1 night, Falco 231 (BH/NS binaries) 1 night, Falco 220 (ASAS-SN) 0.5 night.
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:
Latham 218 (Spec TESS) 50 nights,
Zhou 212 (Nep & Jup) 12 nights,
Medina 211 (Flares) 5 nights,
Quinn 199 (Giant planets) 3 nights,
Irwin 183 (MEarth follow-up) 2 nights,
Carmichael 213 (Brown dwarfs TESS) 4.5 nights,
Winters 206 (HOT Jupiters) 6 nights,
Rodriguez 220 (young Jupiters) 4 nights,
Douglas 209 (Companions) 3 nights,
Torres 6 (Pleiades survey) 6.5 nights,
Torres 15 (Eclipsing binaries) 6 nights.
Tillinghast Proposal Summary January-April 2020
(as of January 3 2020)
December 2019
January February
March April
May 2020
Programs
PDF
Schedules
TDC
| PI | Num | Title | Dark | Gray | Bright |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Kenyon | 12 | Optical Spectra of Symbiotic Stars | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Edo Berger | 196 | Astro100: Using the FLWO 1.5 m Telescope for Undergraduate Education | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Emilio Falco | 220 | Spectroscopy of Transients from the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Warren Brown | 230 | HVS/ELM Survey South | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Emilio Falco | 231 | A First Search for Non-Interacting BH/NS Binaries | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Sebastian Gomez | 233 | FLEET: Finding Luminous and Exotic Extragalactic Transients | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| PI | Num | Title | Dark | Gray | Bright |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guillermo Torres | 006 | Pleiades binary survey | 0 | 0 | 6.5 |
| Guillermo Torres | 015 | Eclipsing binaries | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Jonathan Irwin | 183 | MEarth Spectroscopic Follow-up | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| David W. Latham | 186 | Spectroscopic follow-up of TESS Planet Candidates | 32 | 16 | 2 |
| Jennifer Winters | 198 | Determining the Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters Orbiting the Nearby Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs with TRES | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Samuel Quinn | 199 | Giant Planets in Open Clusters | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Stephanie T. Douglas | 209 | The impact of companions on stellar rotational evolution (TRES) | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| George Zhou | 212 | Neptunes and Jupiters around early-type stars | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Theron W Carmichael | 213 | Brown dwarf candidate follow-up from TESS Cycle 2 | 0 | 1 | 3.5 |
| Joseph Rodriguez | 220 | Determining the Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters Orbiting the Nearby Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs with TRES | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Amber Medina | 221 | Simultaneous Flare Observations and Halpha Emission of Rapidly Rotating Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs with TESS and TRES | 0 | 0 | 5 |