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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-03-31

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Date: 
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Eric Huff
Submitter Email: 
Observer Support: 
Mauricio Rojas
Night Assistant: 
Leonardo Paredes
Problems: 

At the beginning of the evening, the Observer2 console displayed a warning message indicating that /home4 was nearly full, and had 1.4G of space remaining. Klaus and Ann were temporarily unavailable, and Tim Abbott advised us to contact Alistair Walker, who resolved the problem remotely when we did so.

At 9:01 PM, the TCS failed again (it had done this at the same time the previous night).

This caused a chain of events which appear to have exposed a new SISPI bug; EH, uncertain about exactly what was going on, paused the exposure after the TCS failure; when the situation was clarified, the exposure was resumed and then aborted. However, the OCS  status remained set to "pause" and subsequent exposures would not write out. Klaus was contacted about this, and helped us to reset the OCS and resume our program.

 

Comments: 

None.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-0741
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
9.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
An i-band Survey of the Equatorial Sky for MS-DESI
Primary Investigator: 
David Schlegel
Institution: 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
9.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-03-31 9.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 9.5