Index

An alphabetical reference to topics, features, and concepts across the Science Scheduler documentation.

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A

• ADU (Analog-to-Digital Unit) — Observation Files, Calibration Guide
• Airmass — Creating Observations, Scheduler Features, Troubleshooting
• API key — Observatory Registration, Plugin Setup, Organizations
• Assigned status — Observation Lifecycle
• Autofocus — Autofocus Guide, Creating Observations
  • Filter change trigger — Autofocus Guide
  • HFR-based trigger — Autofocus Guide
  • Per-observation overrides — Creating Observations
  • Temperature-based trigger — Autofocus Guide
  • Time-based trigger — Autofocus Guide

B

• Backup management — System Administration
• Baseline (exoplanet transit) — Practical Guide
• Bias frame — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
• Binning — Creating Observations, Target Library
• Bit depth (12-bit vs 16-bit) — Calibration Guide
• Buffer time — Practical Guide, Scheduler Features

C

• Calibration — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
  • Application formula (CMOS vs CCD) — Calibration Guide
  • Library — Calibration Guide
  • Status chips — Calibration Guide
• Camera simulator — Plugin Setup
• Cancelled status — Observation Lifecycle, Notifications
• Contact support — Contact Support
• CCD camera — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
• CMOS camera — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
• Completed status — Observation Lifecycle
• Complete and stop — Overview
• Constraints — Creating Observations, Target Library, Troubleshooting
• Coordinate lookup — Creating Observations, Target Library
• CSV import — Target Library

D

• Dark frame — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
• Database integrity — System Administration
• Dispatch scheduling — Scheduler Features, Observatory Administration
• Dithering — Guiding Guide, Target Library
• Dropbox — External Storage

E

• Email notifications — Notifications, User Profile
• Equipment options — Observatory Administration, Plugin Setup
• Execution window — Repetitive Observations, Scheduler Features
• Exoplanet transit — Exoplanet Transits, Practical Guide, Scheduler Features
• Expiry warning (calibration) — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
• Exposure configuration — Creating Observations, Target Library
• External storage — External Storage, Organizations

F

• Failed status — Observation Lifecycle, Troubleshooting
• Fallback mode (flat capture) — Calibration Guide
• Fast mover — Creating Observations, Scheduler Features
• File browser — Observation Files
• Fill time — Scheduler Features, Target Library
• Filter — Creating Observations, Calibration Guide
• FITS file — Observation Files, External Storage
• FITS header — Observation Files
• FITS processor — Server Architecture
• Fixed-time observation — Scheduler Features, Creating Observations, Practical Guide
• Flat frame — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
• Flat panel — Calibration Guide
• Flat Wizard — Calibration Guide, Plugin Setup
• Flexible observation — Scheduler Features, Practical Guide
• FWHM — Observation Files, Autofocus Guide

G

• Gain — Creating Observations, Target Library
• Gap-filling (automatic dark capture) — Calibration Guide, Overview
• Google Cloud Storage — External Storage
• Google Drive — External Storage
• Guiding — Guiding Guide, Target Library

H

• Hardware fingerprint — Observatory Registration, Plugin Setup
• Heartbeat — Overview, Observation Lifecycle
• HFR (Half-Flux Radius) — Autofocus Guide, Observation Files
• Horizon limit — Plugin Setup

I

• Image processing — Image Processing
• Individual frame — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
• Ingress/egress (transit) — Exoplanet Transits, Practical Guide, Scheduler Features
• Internal stacking (camera) — Calibration Guide

J

• JPL Horizons — Creating Observations, Target Library
• JWT (authentication) — Server Architecture

L

• Library target — Target Library, Overview
• Log analysis — Log Analysis Guide, Overview
• Log retention — Log Analysis Guide

M

• Master frame — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
  • Creation threshold — Calibration Guide
  • Expiry — Calibration Administration
  • Supersession — Calibration Administration
• Median ADU — Observation Files
• Minimum altitude — Creating Observations, Scheduler Features
• MinIO — Server Architecture, External Storage
• Monitoring observation — Scheduler Features, Repetitive Observations
• MongoDB — Server Architecture
• Moon separation — Creating Observations, Scheduler Features
• Multi-target observation — Creating Observations, Practical Guide

N

• Needs tab (calibration) — Calibration Guide
• nginx — Server Architecture
• NINA plugin — Plugin Setup, Overview
• Notifications — Notifications, User Profile

O

• Object type — Creating Observations
• Observation lifecycle — Observation Lifecycle
• Observation type — Scheduler Features, Creating Observations
  • Fixed-time — Scheduler Features
  • Flexible — Scheduler Features
  • Rise-to-set — Scheduler Features
  • Time-based — Scheduler Features
• Observatory administration — Observatory Administration
• Observatory history — Observatory Administration
• Observatory registration — Observatory Registration
• Offset (camera) — Creating Observations, Target Library
• Organizations — Organizations, Projects Guide

P

• Pending status — Observation Lifecycle
• Permissions — Organizations, Projects Guide
• Plate solving — Image Processing, Practical Guide, Plugin Setup
• Plugin setup — Plugin Setup, Getting Started
• Preview images — Image Processing, Observation Files
• Priority — Scheduler Features, Creating Observations
• Processing pipeline — Image Processing, Overview, Server Architecture
• Projects — Projects Guide, Creating Observations
• Pushover notifications — Notifications

Q

• Quality metrics — Observation Files
• Queue — Scheduler Features, Observatory Administration

R

• Readout mode — Calibration Guide, Creating Observations
• Redis — Server Architecture
• Repetitive observations — Repetitive Observations, Scheduler Features
• Reporting — Reporting Guide
• Resubmission — Observation Lifecycle, Repetitive Observations
• Resume/suspend — Observation Lifecycle, Scheduler Features
• Rice compression — Observation Files
• Rise-to-set observation — Scheduler Features, Creating Observations
• Roles (user) — Organizations, Overview
• Rotation — Creating Observations, Practical Guide

S

• Safety — Plugin Setup, Overview
• Scheduler features — Scheduler Features
• Science Scheduler container — Plugin Setup, Overview
• Seeing — Observation Files
• Sequence repeat count — Creating Observations, Target Library
• Server architecture — Server Architecture
• Sigma-clipped mean — Calibration Guide
• Sky mode (flat capture) — Calibration Guide
• Stale warning (calibration) — Calibration Guide
• Star count — Observation Files
• Status — see Observation lifecycle
• Support requests — Contact Support, Troubleshooting
• Suspend — see Resume/suspend
• System administration — System Administration

T

• Target library — Target Library, Overview
• Telemetry — Plugin Setup, Observatory Administration
• Temperature (camera cooling) — Calibration Guide, Calibration Administration
• Temperature tolerance — Calibration Administration
• Template (observing) — Target Library, Overview
• Time-based observation — Scheduler Features, Creating Observations
• Troubleshooting — Troubleshooting
• Twilight — Calibration Guide, Scheduler Features

U

• Uncovered configuration (calibration) — Calibration Guide
• User profile — User Profile
• Utilization — Reporting Guide

V

• Vignetting — Calibration Guide

W

• Weather — Plugin Setup, Overview
• WebSocket — Server Architecture, Overview

Z

• ZIP download — Observation Files

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This index covers Science Scheduler documentation v2.15 (March 2026).