Science Operations

Documents and Links

LUCI Users Manual
 
Details of LUCI Read Modes:
Storz et al (Proc SPIE, Vol. 8453, p. 14+ 2012)
 
Aladin Users Manual
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/AladinManual6.pdf
Exposure Time Calculator (ETC)
https://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/lucifer-cgi/calculator/calculator.py
 

Blanks Sky Fields: A table of coordinates of 23 blank sky fields for sky flats is available from the NOT web site:
http://www.not.iac.es/observing/tools/blanks.html

Persson et al. (1998): A New System of Faint Near-Infrared StandardStars
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/300607/

NIR photometric standard stars, Calar Alto observatory
http://www.caha.es/pedraz/SSS/sss.html

 
Telluric Standard Search from the Gemini web site:
http://www.gemini.edu/sciops/instruments/nir/specstandards/telluricsearch.html