Service Mode Policies

The ESO Optical/Infrared Telescopes Science Operations Policies document, approved at the 154^th Council meeting in June 2020, describes the policies applied to the selection of observations, the operations and the data handling of all ESO optical/near-infrared telescopes.

The following pages list science operations policies implementation specific to service mode that have to be considered for the preparation of Phase 2 material and the execution of observations in service mode:

Phase 2 constraints must agree with Phase 1 request.
Phase 2 targets must agree with the ones submitted at Phase 1.
The total execution time must not exceed the time allocated to the observing run.
Policy regarding the OB run-time failure.
Policy regarding the execution of time-critical OBs.

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