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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2020-01-14

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Date: 
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Claudia Scarlata
Submitter Email: 
mscarlat@umn.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Vihang Mehta
Problems: 

- Had to redo the zeropoint at 10:40pm (the pointing for 5' off to the east and 3' off the north)

- The focus mechanism got stuck at 2am, while applying the telescope focus adjustment

- Failure of the DHS at 3am and 5am required us to reboot the nocs system

- The HgNe lamps taken in the afternoon are less exposed in the red compared to those taken during the night

Comments: 

None.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
2
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
2
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
1
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
7
Program: 
Proposal: 
2019B-0016
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
6.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.75
Description: 
The demographic of extreme emission line galaxies
Primary Investigator: 
Scarlata
Email: 
mscarlat@umn.edu
Institution: 
University of Minnesota
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m COSMOS
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
7.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2020-01-14 6.75 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.75 7.5