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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2023-12-02

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Date: 
Saturday, December 2, 2023
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Antonella Palmese
Submitter Email: 
palmese@cmu.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Kathy Vivas
Problems: 

First part of night (Observer: A. Palmese): None.

Second part of night (Observer: W.Cerny): on two occasions, we lost tracking and needed to point to zenith before resuming observations. Total time lost due to this was roughly ~25 mins.

Comments: 

None.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
Other
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2022B-715089
Target of Oportunity: 
yes
Time Observed: 
1.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Discovering counterparts to gravitational wave binary black hole mergers
Primary Investigator: 
Antonella Palmese
Email: 
palmese@cmu.edu
Institution: 
Carnegie-Mellon University
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Total Program Time: 
1
Proposal: 
2023B-879130
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
6.25
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Searching for Ultra-Faint Satellites of the Milky Way with DECam
Primary Investigator: 
Alex Drlica-Wagner
Email: 
kadrlica@fnal.gov
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Total Program Time: 
6.75
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2023-12-02 7.25 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 7.75