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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2016-09-14

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Date: 
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Eve Kovacs
Submitter Email: 
kovacs@anl.gov
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Problems: 

None.

Comments: 

High and medium clouds covered about 80% of the sky at the start of observing (23:35) UT

Night continued very cloudy.  Observing conditions very poor.

Shutter jammed on Exposure 575052 and was reset by operator.

Dome closed at 07:25 UT due to threat of rain.

Began end of night calibrations scripts at 9:10 UT

Link to night-summary:

http://des-ops.fnal.gov:8080/nightsum/nightsum-2016-09-14/nightsum.html

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.25
Seeing Variability: 
0.8
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
7
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.35
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
7
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.6
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
7
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Sky: 
7
Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
10.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DES Observing
Primary Investigator: 
Josh Frieman
Email: 
frieman@fnal.gov
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
10
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2016-09-14 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10