Date:
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Telescope:
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter:
Sean Points
Submitter Email:
Observer Support:
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant:
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Problems:
DIMM stopped reporting at 00:26 UTC.
Program:
Proposal:
2024B-405106
Target of Oportunity:
No
Time Observed:
7.5
Time Engineering:
0.0
Time lost technical:
0.0
Time lost weather:
0.0
Time lost other:
0.0
Description:
DECam Magellanic Cloud Emission-Line Survey
Primary Investigator:
Sean Points
Email:
Institution:
CTIO
Instrument:
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization:
NOAO
Total Program Time:
7.5
| Total Times | Time Observed | Time Engineering | Time lost technical | Time lost weather | Time lost other | Total Program Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-19 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.5 |
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Tonight marks the beginning of the last run of the Dark Energy Camera Magellanic Clouds Emission-Line Survey (DeMCELS). Tonight and this run are also very special because it marks 30 years of observing on Blanco for me. My first run was 18-20 Jan 1995. It was then that Chris Smith mentioned that he was going to obtain a 2kx2k detector for the Curtis Schmidt telescope and conduct start the Magellanic Clouds Emission-Line Survey (MCELS) using the huge 1.3deg field-of-view of the Schmidt. It is to be hoped that the DeMCELS data are as widely used as a community resource as the original MCELS data have been.