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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-09-10

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Date: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Eusebio Sanchez
Submitter Email: 
Observer Support: 
Alberto Alvarez
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Niall Macrann, Andres Plazas, Tim Eifler
Problems: 

After running flatCheck, we see that flat fields are ok, buy Y filter that is very slightly out of the nominal value
We are measuring seeing below 1 arcsec, but ellipticities are above 0.05. The wind speed is low (around 5 mph).

03:12; It seems that the DIMM monitor stopped again, but around 4:00 it started to work again
The queue became empty during exposure 232366. We receipt the message about OCS:"Queue is empty. Disarming exposure queue." We disabled obstac and enabled it again, and it started to fill the queue again.
After the exposure 232366 (the last SNe SN-C3) the SISPI stopped loading exposures from the queue. We lost 10 to 15 minutes of data taking before realizing. We needed to press GO and it started again. Also all exposures before the SN disappeared from the exposures history in the observer 1 console.
Comments: 
Claudio put the wind screen up to 20% because we have wind (at around 10 mph)
DIMM monitor is back.
Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
20.00
Temperature Min: 
15.00
Humidity Max: 
30
Humidity Min: 
13
Wind Speed Max: 
18.00
Wind Speed Min: 
2.00
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
Other
Sky : 
1
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
1
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
Other
Sky: 
1
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
1
Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
10.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Dark Energy Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Josh Frieman
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
10
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-09-10 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10