SPOCK v2 Documentation 🖖

SPOCK (Speculoos Observatories sChedule maKer) is a python package developed to handle the planification of observation of the SPECULOOS telescopes. The project SPECULOOS -Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars – searches for potentially habitable exoplanets around the smallest and coolest stars of the solar neighborhood Link to site.

📝 The strategy of the SPECULOOS survey and how it is implemented in SPOCK is described in Sebastian et al. 2020. You can find more details in How SPOCK works.

🛠️ 📈 SPOCK contains many useful functions and helpful plots, check SPOCK tools and SPOCK plots for more details.

🧩 To make it more convenient for users, we have also created a GUI-like interface called SPOCKApp that gathers all SPOCK’s functionality with widgets. Check the tab SPOCKApp for more info.

⚠️ Only members of the SPECULOOS consortium can use SPOCK. In particular, the two persons in charge of the scheduling are Elsa Ducrot and Mathilde Timmermans.