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ENR CTIO 1.5-m 2018-01-28

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Date: 
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Telescope: 
CTIO 1.5-m
Submitter: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Submitter Email: 
Observer Support: 
None
Night Assistant: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Problems: 

At the beginning of the night we had the same problems as at the end of the previous night. The slicer and the temperature of the iodine cell gave problems.

 

I tried to solve the problems by resetting the torrent and the computer that controls Chiron, which on some occasion had given results, but this time it was not like that.

 

With the help of Leonardo Paredes, David Rojas and Manuel Hernandez from the telescope, and Marco Bonati by telephone, we were finally able to find the solution to the problem. A connector of the slicer controller in the instrument was disconnected. We connected the connector in the right position. The iodine cell controller was also reset.

 

Once solved the problem of slicer and iodine cell, we saw that we had lost the focus of the instrument, which was corrected to finally begin the observations at 02:20 UT.

Comments: 

None.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.60
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
7.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
1.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Primary Investigator: 
Todd Henry
Institution: 
SMARTS
Instrument: 
CTIO 1.5m Echelle
Organization: 
SMARTS
Total Program Time: 
8.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2018-01-28 7.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0 8.5