UTAS Radio Astronomy Group | Schedules / LBA Observing Session, Sep 2019

Telescope setup and monitoring guides

Observers on duty are responsible to look after Hobart 26m, Ceduna and Katherine.
Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your shift starts to ensure a smooth handover.
Please identify yourself at the start of your shift in the chat. When going to sleep or being away for an extended time, please let people know. Mattermost can be installed on your phone to get notifications, or alternatively let them know your phone number.
Please familiarize yourself with how things work before your shift.
Keep the LBA people updated during experiment changes and if problems occur. Better to be too detailed in chat than being silent.
After finishing a shift, please update the person following you and fill out handover notes (make the system for this today).

Try the things in the setup guides’ troubleshooting section. If fails, then…
Try asking for help in the LBA chat and AuScope chat. If fails, then…
Try contacting Lucas or Gabor. Phone numbers are on the whiteboard in the AuScope room.

Experiment start: Make sure .prc and .snp files are available and correct before experiment starts. Experiments always have a short fringe check session at the start. Try to start the experiment quickly but correctly to make fringe checks possible. Pay attention to chat and fringe check results and troubleshoot as necessary. Once there are fringes, don’t change the setup.
Experiment middle: Monitor the antennas and note down anything unusual in the handover notes.
Experiment end: Stow antennas if necessary and fill out handover notes.

Shift (local time)	Observer (duration)	Experiments	Stations	Notes
20 Sep (Fr) 8–17	Lucas/Gabor (9h)	vc380, v252bs	HoCd	Fringe check session & experiment start (K-band/1cm)
20 Sep (Fr) 17–23	Prad (6h)	v252bs	HoCd	Experiment middle (K-band/1cm)
20 Sep (Fr) 23–10 (Sa)	Earl (11h)	v252bs	HoCd	Experiment end (K-band/1cm)
21 Sep (Sa) 10–21	Mas (11h)	v544e	HoCd	Experiment start (K-band/1cm)
21 Sep (Sa) 21–11 (Su)	Gabor (14h)	v544e, v576a	HoCd	Experiment end & start (K-band/1cm)
BREAK
27 Sep (Fr) 14–17	Lucas/Gabor (3h)	vt02ap	HoCd	Fringe check session (C-band/6.5GHz)
27 Sep (Fr) 17–23	Ross (6h)	vt02ap, v558d	HoCd	Experiment end & start (C-band/6.5GHz)
27 Sep (Fr) 23–9 (Sa)	Lim (10h)	v558d	HoCd	Experiment middle (C-band/6.5GHz)
28 Sep (Sa) 9–14	Gabor (5h)	v558d, v581a	HoCdKe	Experiment end & start (C-band/6.5GHz/6.7GHz)
28 Sep (Sa) 14–20	Jay (6h)	v581a	HoCdKe	Experiment middle (C-band/6.7GHz)
28 Sep (Sa) 20–10 (Su)	Patrick (14h)	v581a, v255ah	HoCdKe	Experiment end & start (C-band/6.7GHz)
29 Sep (Su) 10–21	Jay (11h)	v255ah	HoCdKe	Experiment middle (C-band/6.7GHz)
29 Sep (Su) 21–9 (Mo)	Tiege (12h)	v255ah, vc381, v525f	HoCdKe	Experiment end & starts(2), including a fringe check session (C-band/6.7GHz)
30 Sep (Mo) 9–16	Lucas (7h)	v525f, vt026a	HoCdKe	Experiment end & start (C-band/6.7GHz)
30 Sep (Mo) 16–24	Prad (8h)	vt026a	HoCdKe	Experiment end (C-band/6.7GHz)

Shift (local time)	Observer (duration)	Experiments	Stations	Notes
21 Sep (Sa) 10–21	Jay (11h)	v544e	AtMpPa
21 Sep (Sa) 21–11 (Su)	Gabor (14h)	v544e, v576a	AtMpPa	Also monitoring UTAScope.
BREAK
28 Sep (Sa) 11–20 (Sa)	Jay (9h)	v581a	AtMpPa	Also monitoring UTAScope from 14h.
28 Sep (Sa) 20–10 (Su)	Lucas (14h)	v581a, v255ah	AtMpPa
29 Sep (Su) 10–21	Jay (11h)	v255ah	AtMpPa	Also monitoring UTAScope.
29 Sep (Su) 21–9 (Mo)	Gabor (12h)	v255ah, v525f	AtMpPa
30 Sep (Mo) 9–16	Lucas (7h)	v525f	AtMpPa	Also monitoring UTAScope.