YALO Telescope Observer's Report for 2002 Jun 28 Observer: Brad Schaefer Observed all night from 00:00 to UTC. Conditions were Photometric most of the night. No equipment or software problems were encountered. Seeing and Weather: Beg: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm Mid: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm End: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm Observing Summary: There is no way to analyze the data in real time. That is, most other CTIO and KPNO and McDonald scopes have a separate computer (with cross mounted disks) for doing normal data processing, checking out data quality, and seeing what a star is doing. Currently, the 1.0m has three computers, but these are all dedicated to other tasks and cannot be used for data analysis. This raises several big problems: First, I can only check on data quality when I am not taking data. An extreme range of my choices is that I can have little good quality data or I can have a lot of potential junk. Checking data quality (FWHM, SNR,...) is a normal observer activity which I cannot do in parallel with data acquisition. Second, I can't follow the variability of my targets. For example, tonight, I want to sit on my RN target if it shows a lot of variability or an eclipse, yet I want to go to other targets if it remains constant in brightness. But without access to IRAF, an independent display, and flattened images, I can't make a reasonable analysis. Third, I'll spend my 15 nights of the run sitting on my hands while the time series runs automatically, and then spend 15 days at home doing data analysis in a non- isolated environment. Normally, I leave observatories with all the data reduced, as this can be done in parallel with the observing. In all, it would be good and strongly-useful to get some way to analyze data with IRAF here in the 1.0m control room. Naturally, I'd hope that a computer can be installed today and I'll be analyzing tomorrow night. If this is not realistic, then I'd appreciate your help in getting some substitute going. A possibility is to install IRAF on my Mac PowerBook G4 with the analysis being done on my laptop. Or maybe there might be some other work-around... ------------------------------ Submitted by Brad Schaefer on 2004 Jun 29 [16:25:33] NOTE: This report replaces the previous report for 2002 Jun 28