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                                            Brett M. Morris

Relevant papers for astronomical scheduling

@wtgee I think the most helpful input that they could give is to suggest scheduling algorithms. Implementations in Python aren't important, because we can figure out how to code them,...

Relevant papers for astronomical scheduling

See also https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019BAAS...51g.125B/abstract.

moved moon_altaz to the non-location get_moon

I left this out of #213 on purpose, because the moon alt/az will be more affected by an observer's location on the Earth than the moon phase. So I intended...

plot_sky function relies on deprecated matplotlib keyword

It looks like this is sorted out. Please reopen if I'm wrong!

Add night sky brightness calculator

I hear that @yoachim has suggestions for how to do this, since he has implemented similar functionality for LSST. Any comments @yoachim?

Priority scheduler leaves a lot of empty time

Hi @jkampars! The priority scheduler tries to schedule each observing block (OB) in order of priority. The top priority target gets scheduled at its optimal time, then the next target...

Possible bug in to_table() method

Closing as stale. Please reopen if necessary!

created a weighted scorer and started writing tests

Hey @kvyh, I'm not sure why this PR is still hanging around and not merged – was there anything left to do on this one, or shall I merge it?

0.5: random test failures due to unreliable test timings

@olebole Does this issue persist with the latest version of astroplan?

Adding an exptime calculator, Telescope class, and sky model

Hey @tcjansen – any chance you'll be able to address the comments above sometime? If not, no problem just let us know so someone else gets to it. Thanks again!