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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2018-02-02

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Date: 
Friday, February 2, 2018
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Stephanie Hamilton
Submitter Email: 
sjhamil@umich.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Maria Pereira
Problems: 

Near the end of the night (9:04 UTC) the "DECAL" component wasn't prepared for the next exposure, stopping the queue.  

Comments: 

DES night summary: http://des-ops.fnal.gov:8080/nightsum/nightsum-2018-02-02/nightsum.html

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
19.00
Temperature Min: 
15.00
Humidity Max: 
55
Humidity Min: 
45
Wind Speed Max: 
10.00
Wind Speed Min: 
0.00
Comment: 
Some incredible seeing tonight! Best image we had was 0.62". Unfortunately high cumulocirrus rolled in for the last quarter of the night, spoiling it.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
1
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
2
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
1
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
7
Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
4.0
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
Email: 
frieman@fnal.gov
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
4
Proposal: 
2018A-0251
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
4.25
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DECam Plane Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Finkbeiner
Email: 
dfinkbeiner@cfa.harvard.edu
Institution: 
Harvard
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
4.25
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2018-02-02 8.25 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.25