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  <TITLE>LCO Direct CCD Exposure Time Calculator</TITLE> 

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    <P align="center">Las Campanas Observatory <br>Direct CCD Exposure Time Calculator 1.0</P>
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  <P align="center">Calculates the observation time needed for a given telescope, instrument, detector and filter.<br><br>
                    Algorithm based on the <a href="http://iraf.noao.edu/">IRAF</a> task <b><i><a href="http://iraf.noao.edu/scripts/irafhelp?ccdtime">
ccdtime</a></i></b>
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      Last Update: Feb 03 2004
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      <B>Telescope:</B> 

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      <SELECT name=select1 onChange="function1()"> <!-- select a telescope -->
        <OPTION value="0" selected>Select
        <OPTION value="1">Magellan 
        <OPTION value="2">du Pont
	<OPTION value="3">Swope
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      <B>Instrument:</B>

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      <SELECT name=select2 onChange="function2()"> <!-- select an instrument   -->
        <OPTION value="0">-
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      <B>Filter:</B>

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      <SELECT name=select3>                        <!-- select a filter  -->
        <OPTION value="0">-
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      <B>Magnitude:</B>

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      <INPUT type=text name="magnitude" size=5 value=20> (must be between -5 and 35) <!--should read only numbers -->

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      <B>Signal/noise:</B>

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      <INPUT type=text name="snr" size =5 value=10> (must be between 0 and 100,000)

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      <B>CCD Binning: </B>

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      <SELECT name=binning>
 	      <OPTION value="1">1 x 1
	      <OPTION value="2">2 x 2
	      <OPTION value="3">3 x 3
	      <OPTION value="4">4 x 4  
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      <B>Seeing (arcsecs):</B>

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      <INPUT type=text name="seeing" size=5 value=0.5 > (must be between 0 and 5)

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      <B>Airmass:  </B>

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      <INPUT type=text name="airmass" size=5 value=1.1> (must be between 1 and 3)
      
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      <B>Lunar Phase:  </B>

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      <SELECT name=phase>
	     <OPTION value="0">0 = new
	     <OPTION value="1">1
	     <OPTION value="2">2
	     <OPTION value="3">3
	     <OPTION value="4">4
	     <OPTION value="5">5
	     <OPTION value="6">6
	     <OPTION value="7" selected>7
	     <OPTION value="8">8
	     <OPTION value="9">9
	     <OPTION value="10">10
	     <OPTION value="11">11
	     <OPTION value="12">12
	     <OPTION value="13">13
	     <OPTION value="14">14 = full
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      <INPUT type="button" value="Calculate" onClick="function3(magnitude.value, snr.value, seeing.value, airmass.value)">
      <INPUT type="reset" value="Reset"onClick="function4()"> 

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      <b><font color=blue>Your observation will require approximately <INPUT type="text" name="result" size=8 value=0 onFocus="this.blur()"> seconds to complete.</font></b>
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      <b>Star counts: <INPUT type="text" name="result2" size=8 value=0 onFocus="this.blur()">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky counts/pixel: <INPUT type="text" name="result3" size=8 value=0 onFocus="this.blur()"></b>
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      <b>Noise Contributions: Star <INPUT type="text" name="result4" size=8 value=0 onFocus="this.blur()">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky <INPUT type="text" name="result5" size=8 value=0 onFocus="this.blur()">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CCD <INPUT type="text" name="result6" size=8 value=0 onFocus="this.blur()"></b>
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