Reporting SN Measures

Members of the CCD-Web group send their measures to the newsgroup.

Other send their measures to SNWeb2

In any case, the hereafter described format must be used.

The message must be sent in 'Plain Text' mode and never in 'HTML' mode.

The body contains at least the measures and may contains additional technical comments about the measures.

Non technical comments must be avoided and published in a separate mail.

There is one measure per line, and one line per measure, with the following description:

• Supernova name, including 'SN'
• Date and time of the measure
• Measured magnitude
• Spectral band
• 3 characters VSNET observer code, or abbreviated first name and last name.

The format is explained hereafter with examples:

On the same line, items are separated with a 'Space' character ('Tab' is also allowed) but there is no space between the magnitude and the spectral band:

On a general basis, the number of reported digits after decimal point must meet the measure accuracy. 
(see table 9):

Only items from Table 9 are allowed and are put on the same line, with a space as separator. The line must follow immediately the measure.

As much as possible, image size must be 5 * 5 or 8 * 8 arcminutes.

No text must be put on the image. The SN may be shown using

• one cyan colored segment
• two cyan colored segments
• on cyan colored circle or square

The JPG formatted image is uploaded on the SNWeb2 FTP server in an observer reserved directory, using the protocol provided by Jean-Claude PELLE.

Image names are formatted as follows and explained in Table 10:

'YYAAUS_Fyyyymmddhhmm.jpg' 

Upper and lower cases are relevant. Image name is written on the line immediately following the related measure (see example table 14).

After the measure and the image name, the observer is allowed to add some comments.

The first comment line must start with the sign '#' and no blank lines are allowed between the measure and the comment.

If the comment use more than one line, it ends with

    - the first blank line
    - another measure
    - the end of the mail

(some measure).... 
#This is a comment.

#This is ignored (blank line inserted).


(some measure)...
#This is a comment.
#
This is the second paragraph.

(some measure)...
#this is a suitable
3 lines
comment.


(some measure)...
#this is also a
#3 lines comment
#with '#' inserted in front of each line.

(some measure)...
This is ignored (no '#')

(some measure)...

#This is ignored (blank line after measure)

Table 11. Some good and bad Comments Examples
See also Table 14.

To help observers and avoid useless repetitions, the user configuration (telescope + CCD) is stored, and automatically added when the measures are published on the site.

If an observer occasionally uses another instrument, then he/she adds comments lines as shown in tables 12 and 13:

0.16-m f/3.3 reflector  
0.20-m f/3.2 reflector  
0.20-m f/5.5 reflector  
0.20-m f/6.7 reflector  
0.20-m f/10.0 reflector 
0.23-m f/3.4 reflector  
0.23-m f/4.1 reflector  
0.25-m f/2.7 reflector  
0.28-m f/3.5 reflector  
0.28-m f/6.8 reflector  
0.30-m f/6.4 reflector  
0.36-m f/6.0 reflector  
0.41-m f/4.5 reflector  
0.62-m f/10.0 reflector 

Table 12. Some Examples for Telescope Description
The Comment must appears as (See Table 14):
#TEL 0.41-m f/4.5 reflector

KAF-400     
KAF-401E    
KAF-1600    
KAF-1602E   
KAF-1000    
TH7899M     

Table 13. Some Examples for CCD Description
The Comment must appears as (See Table 14):
#CCD KAF-1602E

A new observer send the following data to Jean-Claude PELLE,

• First and last name
• e-mail address
• IAU Observatory code and Observatory name if any
• Longitude (> 0 to the East), Latitude et Elevation ASL in meters of the Observatory
• Telescope outer Diameter in meters and used F/D ratio
• CCD brand
• Software used for the measure (not for acquisition)
• Operating System (W98, WME, W2K, ...)
• Operating System Language (FR, US, IT, ...)
• Mailer (OE, OL2K, OLXP,...)

The three last data will allow to propose tools to assist the observer.

In return, the observer receives, a two uppercase observer code (See 'US' above in image name), and a password to access the FTP site.