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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2016-08-18

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Date: 
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Katelyn Allers
Submitter Email: 
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Sean Points, Rodrigo Hernandez
Problems: 

We spent the early part of the night, reacquainting ourselves with ARCoiRIS and writing notes for how to setup the instrument, take calibrations, etc.  Here are a few of the issues we ran into:

1) write expo seems to turn itself on after you restart the ts4 interface.  Even if the box was not checked, it sometimes wrote EXPO files.

2) we had another random hang tonight, where it is finishing a dither sequence and winds up continuously overwriting the penultimate image in a sequence.  See file #151 for an example

3) after the issue with (2), we exitted from the software and restarted.  we could not get the Detectors to turn on (and the buttons to properly indicate if they were on).  We noticed that there will still some PAN windows open, so we force killed them.  On restarting the software, we still had issues, so we rebooted the ts4 machines (tspec1 and tspec0).  We could not get tspec0 to reboot, however.  (Sean has more details).  Eventually we got tspec0 rebooted, but then tspec1 was not talking to tspec0.  Maybe the order of rebooting matters?  After rebooting tspec1 again, things seemed fine.

4) The fits headers have zeroes for the TELFOCUS, AIRMASS, PARANGLE, seems like maybe there is a problem with the instrument communicating with the TCS?

5) regardless of the issues above, bad seeing, and some cirrus, we still got some good spectra.

Comments: 

None.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
7.0
Time Engineering: 
2.0
Time lost technical: 
3.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Total Program Time: 
12
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2016-08-18 7.0 2.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 12