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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-01-13

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Date: 
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
B Nichol
Submitter Email: 
bob.nichol@port.ac.uk
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
andrea kunder, Kai Hoffman, Lyndsay Old, David Gerdes, Pele, David Wittman
Problems: 

At beginning of night lost telescope control and javier had to clean tacometer. maybe do this during the day?

4map failed twice, lost about 15mins in total.

No issues with DECam

 

Comments: 

Seeing consistently above 1.3 arcseconds in all filters - typically 1.5 to 1.6

 

Clear, dark (moon illumination 0.06). 

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
Guis froze and took 30 minutes to restart properly.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.6
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
0003
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
3.5
Time Engineering: 
0.25
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DES
Primary Investigator: 
frieman
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
3.75
Proposal: 
2012B-0448
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
3.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Email: 
dwittman@physics.ucdavis.edu
Institution: 
UC Davis
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
4
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-01-13 7.0 0.25 0.5 0.0 0.0 7.75