Hello. I followed today the survey strategy visualization discussion at the RCW 2025. I wanted to put here for comment a few suggestions for your consideration:
Add RA/DEC to the celestial sphere visualizations in ls.st/svnightly summaries.
In https://survey-strategy.lsst.io/ (great resource!):
*** Together with the static maps of number of visit progress, add a histogram to see the average and spread of number of visits more clearly. Helps get a clear idea of the depth and homogeneity quicker.
*** Fold in to the number of visits (or in addition to) the t_effective quantity or something like that adding a weight considering seeing, sky brightness… In my view this produces a more nuanced view of what has been accomplished so far with data quality considerations.
I’m trying to keep the total plots and reports on the survey-strategy pages down (to reduce the confusion and overload like Meg pointed out) so will make the histograms and see how they look — we generate these in maf all the time but people don’t seem to refer to them often so it’s not obvious how useful they are in practice. We could definitely add them onto the nightly progress reports pages (coming very soon), which are intended to be a little more comprehensive.
The teff would be easy to add to the table though … would you really prefer median teff or median coadded depth in magnitudes? (or maybe both)
(Assuming I reference t eff to current predicted values at dark sky /zenith).
Thanks, I understand completely, whatever you guys think is more appropriate. Interesting question… I personally like t_eff, but I think most people would actually prefer depth, so I leave it up to you! Or both if it doesn’t saturate too much.