Here's some more info for those of you who are
trying to 'make a plate' (or more) with some
extra star/cluster fields for Monday Nov. 26.

We'd like to have these special 
plate files for this round all in 
by 5pm CST Nov 26,2001.

Brian Yanny will be available Monday to help
verify that your plPlugMapT-XXXX.par file will
make a 'valid plate', without collisions,
with proper sampling of objects, sky, guide
and other fibers.
Please e-mail yanny@fnal.gov with the location
of a plPlugMapT file(s) that you want validated.

We will assign unique tileIds and Plate# id's Monday,
for working purposes, you
can use tileids 99XX and
plateids 9XX, where XX is an integer.


You can run the 'plate making process' yourself if
you like, and if you have a login on fnal computers
sdssdp2.fnal.gov (or sdssdp3.fnal.gov).
For obscure reasons, the 'plate' code, currently only runs
on OSF1 machines.

I have made a 'sample special plate' (a plate
full of magnitude g'=19-20.5 F dwarf stars at RA~5hours)
and validated it thru the plate process.

All the files used, are in:
sdssdp2.fnal.gov:/home/s1/yanny/oneplate

And you may look there for examples of how to do it.

You first make a plPlugMapT-XXXX.par file.
(also see Steve Kent's message #603,#604 to sdss-target)