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. Tutorials on how to use the Long-term scheduler and the Short-term scheduler are available.

🛠️ 📈 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.