This page tracks events in the static sky processing for Large Area Processing for 2012-07-06

Beginnings 2012-11-21

It was decided to begin the stack photometry with the region containing the Kepler field (18h30m,+33d45') -> (20h20m,+52d30'). These skycells were queued for staticsky processing on November 21.

After those runs completed a list of projection cells that had completed LAP stacking were queued for processing. These were queued in order of projection cell number. This turns out to be a band at low declinations. These proceeded over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Change of direction 1

After the holiday a change of direction was made. Rather than go in band of declination we went to stripes in RA. The outstanding runs were set to state ='wait' and skycells were queued in the band 9 < RA < 10

Change of direction 2

Due to some mis-communication we decided that it would be better for PSPS to load in decliation bands, so the existing runs were set back to state ='new' and new runs were queued in this region.

Change of direction 3

As a result of further discussions it was determined to go back to processing by RA stripes. The RA band including the Kepler field was made the highest priority. The skycells with centers above declination 10 were completed on 2012-12-04. The plot below shows the completion at that time.

Sky Calibration

The staticsky calibration processing was begun on 2012-12-03. This proceeds at a higher rate then the psphot operations.

For the region of proposed first ingest (270 < RA < 300) there are 55733 skycells to process. 14865 were completed on the first day.

Going Forward

The current plan is to postpone processing of the region near the galactic center (270 < RA < 300, DEC < 10) and proceed with ra stripes at 120 degrees. So far I have left the existing runs in wait state, and change them to run as needed. For simplicity we could drop them and change the label, but so far I've been managing the states. Here are the locations of the "waiting" skycells.

Sky calibration status

The plot below shows the number of detections per skycell (log scale) for the region 267 < RA < 303. The data for 10 < DEC < 20 is still processing