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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2014-11-13

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Date: 
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Chris D'Andrea
Submitter Email: 
chris.dandrea@port.ac.uk
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Dominik Gangkofner, Ting Li
Problems: 

While slewing to the first of our morning standard stars, an error occurred (05:34 local) that halted the telescope before it reached the field. TelOps support indicated that the cause of the problem is not currently fixed, and has either submitted or will submit a separate report (we did not understand to where).

Comments: 

We define low wind as <8 mph; medium as 8 - 15 mph; and high as >15mph

First hour of the night had 10mph winds, dropping rapidly to 3mph.  So first quarter night was, on average, low wind.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
8.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.25
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Dark Energy Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Frieman
Email: 
frieman@fnal.gov
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
8.75
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2014-11-13 8.5 0.0 0.25 0.0 0.0 8.75