[ENHANCEMENT] Support scheduling of calibration (dark, bias, flat frames) explicitly #4
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enhancement
New feature or request
medium priority
Fixing this is required for expected non-core functionality
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, users may select the shutter status via the
shutter_state
keyword in a .sch file or as a key + value pair in an astroplan ObservingBlock configuration dictionary. However, astroplan ObservingBlocks are required to include an RA and Dec for the astroplan PriorityScheduler to be able to schedule the block. Since darks and biases are necessarily spatially and temporally agnostic, this poses a problem for users who do not know a priori what times will be available for calibration frames during the night.Additionally, users cannot schedule daytime calibration images since the TelrunOperator prevents observations from beginning before sunset.
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Describe alternatives you've considered
A "daytime" schedule may be considered with different syntax that the TelrunOperator handles differently.
Additional context
The automation of calibration images is geared towards the larger goal of a looping script similar to syncfiles that will periodically generate timestamped updated calibrations.
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