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