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ENR CTIO 1.5-m 2021-06-28

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Date: 
Monday, June 28, 2021
Telescope: 
CTIO 1.5-m
Submitter: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Submitter Email: 
rodrigo.hinojosa@noirlab.edu
Observer Support: 
None
Night Assistant: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Problems: 

The first half of the night was spent engineering, some comments about it:

 

- At the beginning of the night we found some problems with the communication towards the lamp control box (no communication to the ADAM), we lost the communication a couple of times, at the moment it is not clear the origin of this problem. David Rojas and Marco Bonati checked the connectors and did some tests, they keep working on this issue.

 

- After of testing the communication towards the lamp control box, we ran a test sequence: 

 

20 ThAr X default in slicer --- manual test

20 ThAr X default in slicer --- sequence

20 ThAr X 2sec in slicer --- manual test

20 ThAr X 2sec in slicer --- sequence

20 Science X 20sec + ThAr observations in slicer

 

The counts of the calibration lamps are very similar to each other, it is not seen an important difference.

 

During this sequence we got some errors._

 

* ORI=OPTGUI CMD=GUI ERROR ON COMMAND  APP dbs get geom_mode TIME-OUT on reply for command 

APP dbs get geom_mode ==>  /OPTGUI_Device.vi/OPTGUI_GuiLogic.vi/OPTGUI_SendCommandCheckReply.vi/ENV_SendCommandWaitReply.vi:154/ERR_AddErrorIfErrorReply.vi REP=OK

 

When this error appears in the headers the GEOMMOD parameter is undef, and there are no values for the Data from Exposure meter.

 

* We lost the net connection (ping) several times, for example at 05:44 UT we lost the connection while the telescope was moving.

 

* There are many errors along the night in the terminal with the code binaries: state 1111111111

Comments: 

File 1173 without structure, it is a fiber calibration lamp taken right before of RTW2311-5845A. At the second try I could get this calibration lamp. 

Please attach a finder chart for V6595 Sgr, it was not possible to detect this target with the given information, unmark this target from the NOS.

No weather data during the whole night.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
5.5
Time Engineering: 
6.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Primary Investigator: 
Todd Henry
Email: 
thenry@astro.gsu.edu
Institution: 
SMARTS
Instrument: 
CTIO 1.5m Echelle
Organization: 
SMARTS
Total Program Time: 
11.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2021-06-28 5.5 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.5