Sometimes in Photometry, you need to be able to put in a small pause between your exposure.

We ask members not to set up many single image plans and run them one after another in the reservation system as this is a very costly way of taking time series plans as you may be billed for a minimum usage fee.


Currently our web telescope control interface doesn't allow members to place a small wait time between exposures.


This means you have to write your plan and upload it to the telescope, and then you can run it or book a reservation.

You can download the example plan files attached to this support document and modify them as required.

 

Here is an example of a single target plan. This will repeat 50 times, with a 10-second exposure time with a 30-second wait.


;Time series photometry plan for a single target
;This will shoot 50 images of target 1
;
;repeat = how many images you want to take
;interval = the exposure time
;binning = the binning of the camera
;filter = filter name (Clear, Luminance, Red, V, B, R, I)
;waitfor = the amount of time in seconds between images
;target = has to follow this format NAME<tab>HH:MM:SS<tab>DD:MM:SS
;shutdown = this just parks the telescope and closes up the system nicely

#repeat 50
#count 1
#interval 10
#binning 1
#filter Clear
#waitfor 30
NGC1499  04:03:12.000  36:21:59.994

#shutdown


Here is the same example above but in multi-target

;Time series photometry plan for a multi target
;This will shoot 50 images of target 1, then 50 images of target 2
;
;repeat = how many images you want to take
;interval = the exposure time
;binning = the binning of the camera
;filter = filter name (Clear, Luminance, Red, V, B, R, I)
;waitfor = the amount of time in seconds between images
;target = has to follow this format NAME<tab>HH:MM:SS<tab>DD:MM:SS
;you can repeat this format for as many targets you want
;shutdown = this just parks the telescope and closes up the system nicely

;target 1 - NGC1499 (change to what you want)
#repeat 50
#count 1
#interval 10
#binning 1
#filter Clear
#waitfor 30
NGC1499  04:03:12.000  36:21:59.994

;target 2 - M34 (change to what you want)
#repeat 50
#count 1
#interval 10
#binning 1
#filter Clear
#waitfor 30
M34  02:42:05.000  42:45:41.995

#shutdown