Provide status of ZTF

[JohnAstronomer]

It would be helpful if the page 'Lasair Ingestion Status' either showed the current status of ZTF or else have a link to a ZFT status page. I wondered why my filter had stopped working and from the size of the logfiles on the ZTF site and the lack of transients ingested into Lasair it appears the telescope is not working at present.

Users following up the alerts automatically woulf probably like to know that the status so they can redirect their follow up activities to other work.

[RoyWilliams]

You can look at the weather situation at Palomar
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/palomar-mountain.

You can look at the ZTF data monitor
https://monitor.alerts.ztf.uw.edu/ (username=ztf, password=fullofstars)

[JohnAstronomer]

Hello, Unfortunately those links do not really explain why the telescope is not operating at present - the page at https://ztf.uw.edu/alerts/public/ shows it stopped operating on 20120120 when there was a very small alerts file - the 74 (Byte ?) files appear to be blank. I have had a search and can't find a current status page on the ZTF site or in any of the other event brokers. It's quite frustrating not knowing and from the point of view of the event broker operators presumably if it is going to be offline for some time it is a good oppertunity for housekeeping or upgrades. Regards John

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