Dear Len, thanks a lot for your email explaining problems you have encountered preparing the Hinode plan for August. We shall try to help a little bit. Here follow our answers/suggestions to make situation a little bit easier: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ANSWERS: > I note that a complete study with EIS requires a total of 8h 29m to run. I > may have missed this but can you say specifically how often you wish to run > this study and under what conditions in the period 18-31/08/07 when you > request Hinode support. > > Since there are many campaign requests for operations with Hinode in August, > the July SSC meeting on 17/18 July and the following monthly meeting about > one week later will need to schedule these quite carefully and may not be > able to accommodate all of the requests. So I was asked at the SSC meeting > teleconference yesterday to clarify the nature and detailed timing of your > campaign. Nature of the campaign: EIS spectroscopy supported by the SOT imaging and magnetograms and XRT imaging; all invented to support our DOT/LaPalma imaging tomography (with H alpha Doppler imaging). EIS spectroscopy is essential to reach the goals of the proposal. Timing of the campaign: originally time interval 07:00-13:30 was selected to cover the period of the day with the high change of good LaPalma seeing, period Aug 18-31 was selected as for this time no SOHO support is possible and we have the DOT time granted. > Also I understand that Khalid has contacted you about the details of your > study. It would be good if you could respond to him soon since we will have > periods in July and August when the simulator will be fully occupied with > the testing of new code for upload to the instrument during August. Khalid > will be in Japan for the upload which will mean that he will also be unable > to do study validation work during a part of August. He will shortly > circulate the schedule for this work. Khalid has sent me a message that he will contact me with details only next week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUGGESTION: > It would be good therefore if we could simplify your study and seek a > validated version in time for your campaign. To make the problem easier we are open TO SIMPLIFY AND SHORTEN our study in the following way: 1/ TO DECREASE THE NUMBER OF THE CONTEXT RASTERS which start and end our EIS program from 3 to just 1 2/ TO SHORTEN THE MAIN PART OF THE PROGRAM (sit-and-stare mode) considerably from 12 to just 8 repetitions Then the schedule and timing of our study would be the following: 1. Context_calib_jr ( 1 times) - 1 x 8m31s (8.5min in total) 2. Obs_sit_stare_jr ( 8 times) - 8 x 28m3s (224.5min in total) slit placed to the X-center of the previous raster 3. Context_calib_jr ( 1 times) - 1 x 8m31s (8.5min in total) raster positioned around the previous slit position The new total program length is so only 4 hours. Preferentially we ask for TIMING 08:00-12:00 UT for such run. This is the narrow interval with the highest DOT best seeing chance. On the other hand we ask AS HIGH NUMBER OF DAYS AS POSSIBLE scheduled for our program in the period Aug 18-31. Reason is clear: weather & seeing conditions at La Palma are variable from day to day: more days give higher change to acquire very good DOT data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finally, we do hope that also other groups proposing conflicting proposals for August will be open to find a compromise in a way we have tried to suggest. In such case your decision should be easier to make. Additionally we are ready to cooperate with other groups asking for Hinode for the Canary Islands best timing - we are already in contact with Mike Marsh. We stay tuned to answer your or Khalid's questions during the next week to prepare a validated version in time for our campaign. We do hope out suggestions will to find Hinode time for our campaign. With best wishes and many thanks beforehand Jan Rybak TL, 22/6/07