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After an observation is . Once your observation has been submitted on the Observation Planning Tool it will be reviewed by the science operations team will check the observation. If changes are required needed the status will change to DECLINED and the owner of the block will be declined and the PI asked to make changescontacted by the team.
When the science operations team has approved the schedule block (i.e. they are happy with overheads, LST range, constraints) the status will change to ACCEPTED.
Once accepted the observation is added to the observing queue. MeerKAT does not generate its observing schedule long in advance. Once scheduled the status changes to SCHEDULED.
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