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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-12-30

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Date: 
Monday, December 30, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Ting Li
Submitter Email: 
sazabi@tamu.edu
Observer Support: 
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
James Etherington, Philip Rooney
Problems: 
Shutter Hareware error at 01:24 UTC. The observer console was reset and the queue started again. Exposure 269884 lost. (e-log entry  #150606 for details)
Error 2600 at 02:30 UTC -- Timeout waiting for CCDs to be digitized. Restarting SISPI solved the problem. Exposure 269908 and 269911 lost. 269912 and 269913 and the flush after restart. And total time olost is about 20 minutes.  (e-log entry #150657 & #150636 for details)
Shutter error again at 04:40 UTC. TelOps reset the shutter and we reset the observer console and everything worked after that. Exposure 269974 lost. (e-log entry #150699)
 
Comments: 

None.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.60
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.50
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
6.75
Time Engineering: 
0.5
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Dark Energy Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Josh Frieman
Email: 
frieman@fnal.gov
Institution: 
Fermilab
Organization: 
N/A
Total Program Time: 
7.25
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-12-30 6.75 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.25