ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2014-01-30

DES report: 

*Observing Team*

 

_DES Observers:_ Tomek Kacprzak, David Gerdes

_Telops:_ Claudio Manuel Hernandez

_Daytime Support:_ Javier Rojas

 

*Observing Plan*

 

# standard bias and dome flat sequence

# evening standard stars

# run ObsTac queue

# middle-of-night standards

# handover to community observer

 

*Conditions*

 

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

# weather after dinner: 7pm (local): clear, low haze, humidity 62%

# weather at 10 deg twilight: 21:30 (local): clear, low haze, humidity 66%

# weather summary: 2am (local): Clear, seeing about 1" in r-band

# Seeing conditions: 1.10 +/- 0.15"

# Wind conditions: low, <8mph

 

*Accomplishments*

 

# Afternoon: zeros done 279664-279672 and 279748-279756;  279673-279747 (ugrizY) dome flats done, checked all ok. Note u-band exposures changed to 150 seconds (was 20), per David James email. Power also reduced from 100% to 80%, so counts/sec even lower than usual.

# Evening standards: 279661-279777 

# Wide survey exposures (gri): 279778-279809,279822-2769860

# Supernova fields: 279811-279821 (C3z)

# Middle-of-night standards:279861-279865

 

 

*Problems tagged as Synopsis_Problem*

 

# None

 

 

*Minor Problems and Relevant Information*

 

# None

 

 

*Notes for Data Management*

 

# None