Date:
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Telescope:
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter:
Tim Abbott
Submitter Email:
Observer Support:
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant:
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present:
Rodrigo Hernandez
Problems:
It transpires that the dome will not follow the telescope if one tries to point using the single-exposure input with SISPI. I do not know why this is the case and apologise for waking Omar because I thought something was wrong. The only way to make this happen is via a script which includes tracking=on for each call. There is an option in sispi to point with "HA w/trk" but it doesn't work, SISPI complains about bad coordinates.
4MAP died once slewing from one side of the sky to the other. No biggie.
Program:
Proposal:
2013B-9999
Target of Oportunity:
No
Time Observed:
4.5
Time Engineering:
0.0
Time lost technical:
0.0
Time lost weather:
7.0
Time lost other:
0.0
Description:
DECam/Blanco engineering
Primary Investigator:
Alistair Walker
Email:
Institution:
CTIO
Instrument:
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization:
NOAO
Total Program Time:
11.5
| Total Times | Time Observed | Time Engineering | Time lost technical | Time lost weather | Time lost other | Total Program Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-18 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 11.5 |
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The weather still sucks, but it's getting better. Unfortunately this means that instead of sticking your nose out of the door and seeing it's going to suck for the next 3 hours minimum, you have to look outside every half hour just in case. In between clouds, I was able to test the new 4MAP LUT provided by Aaron with two pointings (all-sky maps were impossible), comparing it to no LUT and the current LUT. Unless you squint hard they look about the same, which is probably a good thing, but we will need to crunch the data a bit to be sure.