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ENR CTIO 1.5-m 2022-12-09

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Date: 
Friday, December 9, 2022
Telescope: 
CTIO 1.5-m
Submitter: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Observer Support: 
None
Night Assistant: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Problems: 

Setting the parameters to start the observations I received the message (in local time):

2022-12-08T21:17:12 : SLICER STATUS ERROR

This is the same message than previous night in the fiber mode, this time it happened in the slicer mode. I tried to change manually the mode but I received errors.

I restarted the GUI and observed a couple of targets in Slicer mode, checking the spectra I realized that the features were not the typical for this configuration, for some reason the system was stuck somewhere between slicer and fiber. I tried to fix the problem without success.

I contacted to Marco Bonati looking for help, after some tries he could finally fix he problem, so I was able to observe in Slicer mode (DECKPOS 0.3896) the rest of the night. Many thanks Marco for your support!

Comments: 

HIP49442: Two stars very close each other, the observations is contaminated by the fainter component.

Please unmark RKS2237-2805, RKS2308+0633 and RKS0148+2532 on the NOS, they could not be observed.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
6.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
2.25
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Primary Investigator: 
Todd Henry
Institution: 
SMARTS
Instrument: 
CTIO 1.5m Echelle
Organization: 
SMARTS
Total Program Time: 
8.25
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2022-12-09 6.0 0.0 2.25 0.0 0.0 8.25