| 2013 Saturn Opposition Coordinated Auroral Observations | |||||
| Date | Request | Duration | Start Time (UTC) | Stop Time (UTC) | |
| 5-Apr | HST | 1 orbit | |||
| 18-Apr | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 18-Apr | Keck | 1/2 night | |||
| 19-Apr | HST | I orbit | |||
| 19-Apr | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 19-Apr | Keck | 1/2 night | |||
| 19-Apr | UVIS_187SA_AURSTARE004_PRIME | 000T13:00:00 | 2013-109T03:32:00 | 2013-109T16:32:00 | |
| 20-Apr | HST | 1 orbit | |||
| 20-Apr | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 20-Apr | Keck | 1/2 night | |||
| 20-Apr | UVIS_187SA_AURSTARE001_PIE | 000T07:30:00 | 2013-110T11:32:00 | 2013-110T19:02:00 | |
| 21-Apr | HST | 2 orbits | |||
| 21-Apr | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 21-Apr | UVIS_187SA_AURSTARE002_PIE | 000T11:37:00 | 2013-111T04:02:00 | 2013-111T15:39:00 | |
| 22-Apr | HST | 1 orbit | |||
| 22-Apr | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 22-Apr | Keck | 1/2 night | |||
| 22-Apr | UVIS_187SA_AURSLEW003_PRIME | 000T07:51:00 | 2013-112T02:15:00 | 2013-112T10:06:00 | |
| 23-Apr | HST | 1 orbit | |||
| 23-Apr | UVIS_187SA_AURSTARE005_PRIME | 000T02:18:00 | 2013-113T12:12:00 | 2013-113T14:30:00 | |
| 28-Apr | SATURN OPPOSITION | ||||
| 29-Apr | UVIS_188SA_AURSLEW001_PRIME | 000T06:20:00 | 2013-119T18:02:00 | 2013-120T00:22:00 | |
| 29-Apr | VIMS_188SA_AURSTARE001_PRIME | 000T06:20:00 | 2013-119T11:42:00 | 2013-119T18:02:00 | |
| 7-May | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 7-May | UVIS_189SA_AURSTARE001_PRIME | 000T09:59:00 | 2013-127T21:17:00 | 2013-128T07:16:00 | |
| 16-May | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 17-May | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 17-May | UVIS_190SA_AURSTARE006_PRIME | 000T09:45:00 | 2013-137T11:46:00 | 2013-137T21:31:00 | |
| 17-May | VLT | 1/2 night | |||
| 18-May | HST | 1 orbit | |||
| 18-May | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 18-May | UVIS_190SA_AURSTARE003_PRIME | 000T19:45:00 | 2013-138T09:31:00 | 2013-139T05:16:00 | |
| 18-May | VLT | 1/2 night | |||
| 19-May | HST | 2 orbits | |||
| 19-May | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 19-May | UVIS_190SA_AURSTARE001_PIE | 000T16:19:00 | 2013-139T15:46:00 | 2013-140T08:05:00 | |
| 19-May | VLT | 1/2 night | |||
| 20-May | HST | 3 orbits | |||
| 20-May | IRTF | 1/2 night | |||
| 20-May | UVIS_190SA_AURSLEW004_PRIME | 000T07:40:00 | 2013-140T19:00:00 | 2013-141T02:40:00 | |
| 21-May | HST | 1 orbit | |||
| 21-May | IRTF | full night | |||
| 21-May | UVIS_190SA_AURSLEW005_PIE | 000T23:10:00 | 2013-141T15:46:00 | 2013-142T14:56:00 | |
| 22-May | HST | 1 orbit | |||
| In all Cassini cases, UVIS and VIMS are both observing with one designated as prime (see name of Request) | |||||
| All times are SCET(UT) | |||||
| The one way light time is 73-75 minutes | |||||
| Summary of Earth-based Saturn Aurora Observations (2013 opposition) | |||||
| Hubble Space Telescope, GO program 13051 | |||||
| 15 orbits with ACS/SBC | |||||
| PI Jonathan Nichols (University of Leicester) | |||||
| To search for HST data go to the archive web site (http://archive.stsci.edu). In the beige search box click on "more options." | |||||
| Then fill in Target Name = Saturn, Resolver = Don't Resolve, select the HST: ACS instrument and then click Search. | |||||
| This should result in a list of relevant data. Note: The data may still be proprietary | |||||
| If you click on the Proposal ID that will then take you to a page that lists all of the data associated with that Program ID | |||||
| Keck 2 | |||||
| 4, ½ nights with NIRC2-NGS/NIRSPEC | |||||
| PI Kevin Baines (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) | |||||
| The Keck data are proprietary for 18 months, unless otherwise specified. To find them in the Keck Observatory Archive, | |||||
| go the following web page: https://koa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/KOA/nph-KOAlogin | |||||
| Click on the "More Search Options" tab. Then select the relevant instrument(s) and scroll down to the bottom to search by PI (Baines). | |||||
| Very Large Telescope (VLT) | |||||
| 3, ½ nights with ? | |||||
| PI ? | |||||
| VTL data is archived at http://www.eso.org/public/science/archive.html | |||||
| InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF) | |||||
| 11, ½ nights and 1 full night with SpeX/CSHELL | |||||
| PI Tom Stallard (University of Leicester) | |||||