Date:
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Telescope:
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter:
Andrea Kunder
Submitter Email:
Observer Support:
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant:
Claudio Aguilera
Problems:
At the very beginning of the night, after we had finished pointing on a bright star, we lost control of telescope. Javier came and cleaned the encoders, and then everything worked. We lost about 25 minutes.
At the end of the night, I had to refresh the gui's, since they were acting sluggish and strange. I then realized that I did not have Master Console powers, meaning I couldn't add more exposures to the queue. I followed the instructions in the "SispiNews" webpage on how to recover from this. (The instructions aren't as clear as they could be, but I still managed to figure things out.) I didn't lose any time, since the queue was filled with exposures and DECam was taking images during my gui woes.
Program:
Total Times | Time Observed | Time Engineering | Time lost technical | Time lost weather | Time lost other | Total Program Time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013-01-12 | 7.25 | 0.0 | 0.25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.5 |
This was another AAT night. Jeremy Mould skyped with me to make sure I was really taking his observations. Although I had to report to him that the seeing was pretty lousy, he was happy we were open and the sky was clear. He is in TX at the moment, trying to observe, but it is cloudy there.
The seeing was all over the place tonight, ranging from 1" to 2".
A very quiet night--no mouse sighting tonight.