ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2014-01-17

*Observing Team*

 

_DES Observers:_ David James, Claudio Bruderer, Peter Nugent

_Telops:_ Alberto Alvarez

_Remote Support:_ Manuel Hernandez 

 

*Observing Plan*

 

# standard bias and dome flat sequence

# evening standard stars

# run ObsTac queue

# middle/end of the night standard star 

# handover to DD, but used time to do DES SN then Main Survey observations - we killed the ObsTac as it ran out of things to do
# Standards carried out
# Observations of Eta Carinae for A. Rest

# end of night calibrations 

 

*Conditions*

 

# weather in afternoon: 4pm (local): Cloudy

# weather after dinner: 7pm (local): cirrus

# weather summary: 4am (local): some extinction all night long, humidty steadily rising to 72%

# Seeing conditions: Median: 1.1  RMS: 0.2

# Wind conditions: Calm

 

*Accomplishments*

 

# Afternoon: zeros done275124-275134 and 275210-275220, (ugriz) dome flats done275135-275209, checkedall ok, but u was lower than expected

# Winner of post sunset leisure activity: Nothing printable

# Evening: Standards 275221-275239

# Survey Exposures 275298-275395

# SN exposures 275240-275297

# Middle of night: Standards not taken, Non-photometric (to put it mildly)

# End of night: Standards: 275396-275400
# DD Observations Eta Car 275406-275420
# Back to DES End of night script

 

 

*Problems tagged as Synopsis_Problem*

 

None

 

*Minor Problems and Relevant Information*

 

# Occlusion alarms: 14 alarms during the night.

 

*Notes for Data Management*

 

None