This GH repo contains the observing plans, logs and scripts for the DECam Alliance For Transients. You will find a copy of this repo on the CTIO DECam machine, observer4

Every observing night:

• Talk to the Observing Assistant if you need information on how to connect to the CTIO DECam machines

  • do this early, or you will not be observing as no one but CTIO staff can give you this info

• Clone/update this repo

  • git pull if an existing machine or git@github.com:gnarayan/decat_pointings.git if on a new machine
  • if you are on observer4 and for some reason need to check the repo out again then:
    • cd /home/DECamObserver/ExposureScripts/User_scripts
    • git clone git@github-decat:gnarayan/decat_pointings.git
    • NOTE THE github-decat alias instead of github.com!!!

• Update the observing plans if ncessary, and make sure your program's observing scripts are in the jsons/ directory

• Observe at night - detailed instructions are on the DECAT slack workspace - contact Gautham Narayan gsn@illinois.edu if you need to be added (or ask your program PI) to the slack

• Run qcInvPrint after the last observation has been processed by the DECAM Data Handling System (DHS)

• Use the upload_qcinv.sh script to upload the .qcinv logfile

• Complete and submit the night report for the observatory staff