astropy / astropy/astroplan

adding additional time constraint between observations?

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Hello!

I was wondering if there was a way to add a time constraint between observations of different objects, i.e. adding a fixed amount of time on top of the slew rate? There is some telescope/observatory overhead that is not related to read_out nor the slew_rate. I'm assuming this would go into "Transitioner". I thought at first that time_resolution would do the trick, but I think I'm misinterpreting what time_resolution does (i.e. if I set time_resolution = 500*u.second, it doesn't seem to add 500 seconds between observations).

Thanks in advance!
Amanda

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The issue points to Transitioner and time_resolution; start by reading that entry point and tracing how transitions are timed. Verify whether a fixed overhead can be represented separately from slew_rate and read_out, then exercise an observation sequence to confirm the configured gap; no test or file is named in the issue.

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python
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tooling
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Feature
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Over a week
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