gummiks / HET-Observing

Useful scripts for observing with The Hobby-Eberly Telescope

HET-Observing

Useful scripts for observing with The Hobby-Eberly Telescope.

Currently includes the following capabilities:

• Create TSL file from a list of stars in a .csv file
• Query simbad resolvable stars to look for magnitudes, ra, dec, pmra, pmdec
• Check observability for a given set of dates
• Create findercharts
• Account for proper motions at a given epoch (HET needs current epoch RA/DEC)

Example HET TSL Files and FinderCharts

See notebooks on creating an LRS2 TSL files / findercharts. Additionally, a notebook on creating HPF engineering-run TSL files is included (some caveats as HPF is currently being commissioned; see notebook).

Getting started

Take a look at the ipynb notebooks in /notebooks

Dependencies

• astropy: http://www.astropy.org/
• astroplan: https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• astroquery: http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• skyfield: http://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/
• pandas: http://pandas.pydata.org/
• tqdm: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tqdm

Todo

• Add Joe Ninan's pyHETObs code for track filling

Coauthors

• Ryan Terrien
• Joe Ninan