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ENR CTIO 1.5-m 2023-07-27

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Date: 
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Telescope: 
CTIO 1.5-m
Submitter: 
Roberto Aviles
Submitter Email: 
Observer Support: 
None
Night Assistant: 
None
Problems: 

CHIRON crashed at 06:40 UT:   ERROR TIMEOUT (from panview core) << _ chiron ... file 1217 did not close (program was already completed.)

Restarted chiron and did a ThAr lamp to test the system: got 'ERROR 111 writing message". Did a second restart: failed, DHE comm issues. Third restart worked (tested a ThAr lamp and it worked, file 1217.) Left CALIB2 running. 

Comments: 

Thanks to R. Cantaruti, O. Estay, H. Orrego and H. Tirado whom set up a working system that allowed us to resume observations.

Regarding this new system, please check the FUNCTIONS (e.g., F8 - ZPOINT) : seems not to be working and is needed in case we need to recover the pointing.

'HBC 679' have a close faint companion at NE, out of the fiber.      Added a ThAr lamp after 'lambda Pav' sequence.

DIMM, RINGSS down? Used Pachon DIMM monitor as a reference.      Around 9 UT, more clouds from SW.

I believe ThAr slicer lamps exposures of 1.2 [s] are generating 2 - 3 times more counts (EMAVGSQ) than the numbers I remember from last February. 

Completed the program with the Sun at -11 degrees of altitude.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
Pachon Seeing Monitor
Sky : 
1
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
Pachon Seeing Monitor
Sky: 
1
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
Pachon Seeing Monitor
Sky: 
1
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
Pachon Seeing Monitor
Sky: 
3
Program: 
Proposal: 
K Kids
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
11.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
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: 
11.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2023-07-27 11.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.5