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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2019-08-20

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Date: 
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Sidney Mau (1st half), Clara Martínez-Vázquez (2nd half)
Submitter Email: 
sidneymau@uchicago.edu
Observer Support: 
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Sidney Mau, Praveen Balaji, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Jacqueline Seron, Clara Martínez-Vázquez
Problems: 

DIMM was not giving any measurment of the seeing nor the flux (but was giving Fsee) in the time span between 05:15 UT and 07:15 UT.

Comments: 

- ToO observations taken between 04:00 UT and 08:45 UT.

- Everything was smoothly with SISPI today.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
17.00
Temperature Min: 
15.00
Humidity Max: 
22
Humidity Min: 
21
Wind Speed Max: 
16.00
Wind Speed Min: 
7.00
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.6
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.6
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2019A-0305
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
5.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE)
Primary Investigator: 
Alex Drlica-Wagner
Email: 
kadrlica@fnal.gov
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5
Proposal: 
2019B-0403
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
1.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
The hunt of RR Lyrae stars in ultra-faint systems
Primary Investigator: 
Martínez-Vázquez
Email: 
cmartinez@ctio.noao.edu
Institution: 
NOAO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
1.5
Proposal: 
2019B-0372
Target of Oportunity: 
yes
Time Observed: 
4.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
The DECam Search & Discovery Program for Optical Signatures of Gravitational Wave Events (DESGW)”
Primary Investigator: 
Soares-Santos
Email: 
marcelle@brandeis.edu
Institution: 
Brandeis University
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
4.75
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2019-08-20 11.25 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.25