ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2014-12-11

*Observing Team*

 

_DES Observers:_ Ricardo Ogando (RM), Ross Cawthon (Obs2), Michael Schubnell (Obs1)

_Telops:_  Hernan Tirado, Claudio Aguilera, Rodrigo Hernandez

_Remote Support:_ David James (via Skype)

 

*Observing Plan*

 

# standard bias and dome flat sequence

# evening standard stars (inverted airmass order to easily hit ToO)

# NEOwise ToO

# run ObsTac queue

# morning standard stars

 

*Conditions*

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# Weather at 9:30PM: Clear

# 12:30AM Winds have been hovering around 8mph for over an hour, but not gone higher. Kept windscreen off.

# 1:30AM Winds have died down the past hour. A few wispy clouds in multiple directions and overhead, but very thin. Most of sky looks clear.

 

# 3:30 AM Seeing has been good (less than 1" most of the night), wind has been low (5-6 mph). A few more clouds on the horizon now, but overhead still looks quite clear.

 

#End of night: seeing has been good all night. Never needed wind screen. Clouds were very minimal.

 

 

 

*Accomplishments*

 

# Afternoon: zeros, dome flat sequence (ugrVRizY).

 

# Evening: Standards (SDSSJ0100-0000, SDSSJ2140-0000, E8-A)

# Overall: NEOwise ToO: NOO7880 (386625-386629), Supernova SN-S2 (386630-386635), Survey (386636-386854)

 

# Morning: Standards (SDSSJ1227-0000, SDSSJ1048-0000, SDSSJ0843-0000 ) and biases

 

*Problems tagged as Synopsis_Problem*

 

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*Minor Problems and Relevant Information*

 

# RASICAM not running tonight.

 

# Brief Shutter failure at 02:17. Shutter reset successful and data taking resumed at 02:19.

 

 

*Notes for Data Management*

 

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