5 th SECCHI Consortium Meeting Orsay, France March 5-8, 2007 SECCHI Planning and Scheduling Ed Esfandiari NRL/Interferometrics, Inc.

Planning and Scheduling Overview Scientist Has Observing Plan Idea Scientist Creates Detailed Plan Plan is ed to SECCHI Planner Plan Gets Converted to an Observing Schedule Schedule Gets Uploaded to SECCHI

Creating an Observing Plan ● Detail is essential! ● User needs to be aware of the various processing tables  Image category (Normal, Dark, Sequence, etc.)  Image Parameters ● Camera setup (7 entires per instrument) ● Exposure (7 entires per instrument) ● Image processing (100 entries for all instruments) ● ROI and Occulter Mask (1 of each per instrument) ● Be aware of telemetry constraints ● Be aware of instrument constraints ● All full-res images will be 2176x2048 ● Indicate if SC-A and SC-B images should be synced

Other Information... ● Tables can be obtained from the SECCHI wiki page under “Planning”  ● Observing plans should be submitted several days in advance ● Plans should be sent to the SECCHI Operations Scientist (Simon Plunkett)

Scheduling ● Observing plans, once approved, are entered into the IDL- based planning tool by the SECCHI planner (Ed Esfandiari) ● Planning tool is “ a set of IDL routines (of LASCO/EIT heritage) that generates daily-weekly command files and/or synoptic programs for commanding the 3 SCIP and 2 HI telescopes. It is a GUI tool that takes advantage of all available telescopes and on-board resources to maximize the use of the telemetry downlink. ” ● Planning tool monitors image sequences, buffer sizes, partition (SSR1, SSR2) sizes, downlink rates, etc

Typical Scheduling Steps ● Observing plan is scheduled through a series of IDL widgets ● Either a new observing sequence is created or an old existing sequence is imported. ● Reusing observing plans can save a great deal of time!

Verifying the Plan ● An “OS Num” (Observing Sequence Number) is generated for each unique observation ● Once all OS's are complete, the schedule is verified ● Schedule conflicts produce a warning

Schedule successfully created!

Summary ● Plan your observations carefully and be as detailed as you can ● If at all possible, use the table entry numbers ● Be aware of telemetry, buffer and instrument restrictions ● Try to reuse old observing plans ● Allow plenty of time ● Make use of the planning resources on the SECCHI wiki page

Jan-Feb 2007 Schedules ● Over 100 calibration, first light and commissioning schedules ● First draft of operations synoptics  Synced COR and HI observations  Different SC-A and SC-B EUVI observations

Operations Synoptics-First Draft  Synced COR and HI images  SC-A ● 5487 images (1442 EUVI, 861 COR1, 194 COR2, 1189 HI-1, 1801 HI-2) ● NRL EUVI version – less images, longer exposures ● 52KB upload file size (1157 commands)  SC-B (pushing the limits) ● 7476 images (3431 EUVI, same COR and HI images as SC-A) ● Lockheed EUVI version – more images, shorter exposures ● 98KB upload file size (2572 commands)

Required Details ● EUVI  Normal ● SC, FW, WL, FPS, IPT, ExpT, CamT  Double ● SC, FW, WL, WL, FPS, IPT, ExpT, CamT  Dark ● SC, FPS, IPT, CamT, ExpTime ( 0:99998ms )  LED ● SC, FW, WL, FPS, IPT, CamT, Pulse ( ), Color  Continuous ● SC, FW, WL, FPS, IPT, CamT  Sequence (n=2-4) ● SC, FW, WL*n, FPS, IPT, ExpT, CamT, Cadence ( 0=close-as-possible)

Required Details ● COR1 ad COR2  Normal ● SC, Polar, IPT, ExpT, CamT  Double ● SC, Polar, Polar, IPT, ExpT, CamT  Dark ● SC, IPT, CamT, ExpTime ( 0:99998ms )  LED ● SC, Polar, IPT, CamT, Pulse ( ), Color  Continuous ● SC, Polar, IPT, CamT  Sequence (n=2-4) ● SC, Polar*n, IPT, ExpT, CamT, Cadence ( 0=close-as-possible)

Required Details ● HI-1 and HI-2  Normal ● SC, IPT, ExpT, CamT  Dark ● SC, IPT, CamT, ExpTime ( 0:99998ms )  LED ● SC, IPT, CamT, Pulse ( ), Color  Continuous ● SC, IPT, CamT  Sequence (n=2-99) ● SC, IPT, ExpT, CamT, Cadence ( 0=close-as-possible)

An Example ● Scientist requests Full field EUVI images on SC-A every 2-hrs S1 FilterWheel, 284A, 1 sec exposure ● SECCHI planner requires SC-A, EUVI, Normal, FW=S1, Wave=284, FPS=Off, IPT=0, ExpT=6, CamT=1, Cadence=120min Where... ● IPTbl 0 >> SSR1, Rice Compressed ● EXPTbl 6 >> 1.0 Second exposure ● CamTbl 1 >> 2176x2048, no CCD summing, Hi gain