Observation Preparation
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This section mainly describes how to prepare and check GMOS observations. Setting up acquisition and observing sequences at Phase II is not intuitive until one is quite experienced (and maybe even not then). An important key to successful observation preparation is starting from the GMOS OT Library. Preparing observing sequences involves much more than setting up the observation of the target; the complete observing sequences must include "acquisition observations" (e.g., for finding the target and putting it in the spectrograph slit). In addition, observations of telluric standards and/or flux standards, flat field calibrations, biases, and and arc lamps for wavelength calibration are usually needed.
