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Date: 
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Alfredo Zenteno
Submitter Email: 
azenteno@ctio.noao.edu
Observer Support: 
Alfredo Zenteno
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Leonardo Paredes y Manuel Hernandez
Problems: 

Observations done from remote observing room.

 

There are moments in which Mozilla Firefox seems very slow. I had a few moments in which even typing in a terminal was slow, which make me think that there is a problem with lasrem0.

Sometimes the GUIs are so slow that they are almost unresponsive.  This behavior once caught me trying to make changes in the queue. It was so bad that Alberto Alvarez had to take control from the mountain and perform the changes I wanted to do from La Serena (although he was experiencing some troubble with the GUIs too).  While he was doing that I logged in with the Safari from my laptop and the GUIs worked just fine.

 

Switching between prop-ids I misspelled one of them causing SISPI to crash.  We corrected the mistake and did a configure.  About 5 minutes lost (mostly tracking the problem).  

Again, during changes of the prop-id SISPI interlocks broke, this time I copied and pasted the prop-id from the Schedule webpage so I assume that there was a hidden character that SISPI didn't like. Another several minutes lost due to that (mostly doing two zeros).

 

 

 

Comments: 

 

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.60
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.30
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.30
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2015A-0397
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
5.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.25
Description: 
Photometric Time Series of Carinae's Great Eruption
Primary Investigator: 
Armin Rest
Email: 
arest@stsci.edu
Institution: 
STSCI
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5.75
Proposal: 
2014B-0146
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
5.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
SUDSS: Survey Using Decam for Superluminous Supernovae
Primary Investigator: 
Mark Sullivan
Email: 
M.Sullivan@soton.ac.uk
Institution: 
School of Physics and Astronomy, Highfield, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ UK
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2015-04-26 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.25 11.25