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Date: 
Friday, March 10, 2023
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Clara Martinez-Vazquez
Submitter Email: 
clara.martinez@noirlab.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Kathy Vivas, Toni Santana-Ros
Problems: 

2nd half (Kathy observing)

3:36am Interlock error. Solved quickly with a Reset. Looking at the logs, it is exactly the same problem that happened yesterday related with the PANG:

DECam_20230310-GCS [INFO   ] 2023-03-11 03:35:31,865 Residual delay to allow shutter to open (0.320591)

DECam_20230310-GCS [INFO   ] 2023-03-11 03:35:32,194 Guide sequence running. Exposure: 1182923

DECam_20230310-GCS [INFO   ] 2023-03-11 03:36:48,197 GCS: shutter is now CLOSED

DECam_20230310-GCS [INFO   ] 2023-03-11 03:36:48,202 Guide sequence stop requested. Exposure: 1182923 (stop_guider = True)

DECam_20230310-GCS [INFO   ] 2023-03-11 03:36:48,209 STOP_EXPOSURE: Waiting for PAN PANG to return to idle.

DECam_20230310-GCS [ERROR  ] 2023-03-11 03:36:50,293 GPAN PANG response to stop command is not DONE. Response: ERROR DHE.vi      /* Operation no

t permitted */STOP SEQ: nothing to stop err -1

DECam_20230310-GCS [INFO   ] 2023-03-11 03:36:50,328 STOP_EXPOSURE: PAN PANG has returned from guide exposure sequence.

DECam_20230310-GCS [INFO   ] 2023-03-11 03:36:50,330 STOP_EXPOSURE: complete.

DECam_20230310-GCS [INFO   ] 2023-03-11 03:36:50,433 prepare_for_exposure: {'expid': 1182924, 'sync_with_shutter': True, 'filter': 'z', 'RA': 1

88.3391, 'start_guider': True, 'dec': -81.0113}

 
Comments: 

2021 PH27 (PI Santana-Ros) observed successfully at the end of the night (non-sidereal tracking)

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
1
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2023A-879841
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
4.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
The dark matter density profile of a tidally disrupting dwarf galaxy
Primary Investigator: 
Martinez-Vazquez
Email: 
clara.martinez@noirlab.edu
Institution: 
Gemini Observatory
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
4.75
Proposal: 
2023A-919117
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
3.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Searching for Ultra-Faint Satellites of the Milky Way with DECam
Primary Investigator: 
Drlica-Wagner
Email: 
kadrlica@fnal.gov
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
3.75
Proposal: 
2023A-283553
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
1.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
2021PH27
Primary Investigator: 
Toni Santana-Ros
Email: 
tsantanaros@icc.ub.edu
Institution: 
Universitat de Barcelona
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
DD
Total Program Time: 
1
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2023-03-10 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.5