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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-09-27

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Date: 
Friday, September 27, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Douglas Tucker
Submitter Email: 
dtucker@fnal.gov
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Leonardo Paredes
Also Present: 
Steve Kuhlmann, Niall Maccran
Problems: 

The exposure queue stalled for about ten minutes after after exposure 238952, and the telescope operator's GUI also froze. Hernan resolved by rebooting the operator1 console. (Niall noted a similar problem occurred a few days ago.

Comments: 

It is good to see DIMM working!  It output results until about 04:15UT, whereupon it stopped outputting results (at least to the CTIO Environmental Web Page).

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.25
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
9.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.25
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Dark Energy Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Josh Frieman
Email: 
frieman@fnal.gov
Institution: 
DES
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
2013-09-27 9.75 0.0 0.25 0.0 0.0 10