Date:
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Telescope:
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter:
Aren Heinze
Submitter Email:
Observer Support:
None
Night Assistant:
Alberto Alvarez
Problems:
None.
Program:
Proposal:
2014A-0496
Target of Oportunity:
No
Time Observed:
9.5
Time Engineering:
0.0
Time lost technical:
0.0
Time lost weather:
0.0
Time lost other:
0.0
Description:
The Deepest Asteroid Survey Ever: Collisional Processes and the Source of Near Earth Asteroids
Primary Investigator:
Aren Heinze
Email:
Institution:
Stony Brook University
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-30 | 9.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.5 |
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A good night, with no problems. One slightly strange issue that I noticed is that when you define hexagonal dithers with the DECam scripting tool using a positive declination offset, it actually offsets toward negative declinations. Thus there appears to be a sign error in the scripting tool's hexagonal dither function. I encountered this while observing at -4 degrees declination. I don't know whether it also applies north of the equator. It caused some of my dithers to be placed differently from where I expected and caused imperfections in my overall dither pattern, but this will not have any meaningful effect on the data.