Observation Summary

OBSID:1342243516
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:PACS-NGC2023-RED-OFF-POSITION
Proposal:OT1_epeeters_1
Target:NGC2023-OFF-POSITION
Actual RA:5h 40m 0.92s
Actual Dec.:-2° 21' 44.76''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:1342243514,1342243515,1342243516,1342243517
OD:1046
Start:2012-03-25T04:08:28.000000 TAI (1711339708000000)
Duration:669.0 seconds (incl. spacecraft on-target slew time)

AOT and instrument configuration:

AOT:PacsRangeSpec
Mode:Pointed, unchopped grating scan
Bands:B2B R1 (prime diffraction orders selected)
Sampling:Nyquist (with spectral dithering if range repetition > 1)
Nod cycles:1

Observation block summary

Name(*)CameraIDBand(*)ReqWaveMin(*)ReqWaveMax(*)WaveMinWaveMaxRepetitions(*)ActualRepCapacitanceOutOfBandChannel
micrometermicrometermicrometermicrometerpF
SED-REDred102R1140.000220.000139.555210.239120.14Noprime
-blue2B2B--69.795105.166120.14Yes, partlyparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.2
SPG pipeline products creation date:2017-01-17T12:45:02.311000 TAI (1863348302311000)
Mission configuration:MC_H98ASTR_P69ASTR_S66ASTR_RP
Processed to level:RED: 2.0 BLUE: 2.0
Quality Control:PASSED
Action:NONE

Quality comments

Off source observation in an unchopped range-scan pair; matched with the on-source observation 1342243517
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  1.56" in the dispersion direction.
If the target is point-like and is offset from the centre of a spaxel in the dispersion direction, the spectral line 
profiles will develop a skew. This skewed Gaussian profile becomes more extreme as the offset increases. 
Be aware that this can be confused with real velocity structure.
This will affect spectra from a single spaxel of a rebinned cube (products with filenames "..hps3dr[r|b].."), 
and combined spaxel-spectra, i.e. added rebinned cube spaxels, or single spaxels from an interpolated or projected cube
(products with filenames "..hps3di[r|b].." or "..hps3dp[r|b].."). See the "PACS Handbook" for more information.