ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2015-01-03

 

_DES Observers:_ Douglas Tucker (RM,Obs2), Sahar Allam (Obs1)

_Telops:_ Alberto Alvarez, Manuel Hernandez, David Rojas

 

_Remote Support:_ 

 

*Observing Plan*

# standard bias and dome flat sequence

# evening standard stars

# run ObsTac queue

# morning standard stars and biases

 

*Conditions*

# The night appeared to be generally clear.  

# The Moon was 1 day before Full.  

# The wind speed was generally low- to modertate (up to about 10mph) for the first half of the night.

# QR reported pretty constant seeing of 1.0+/-0.2 arcsec throughout the first half of the night.

# DIMM reported seeing around 0.85 arcsec early in the first half, gradually improving to about 0.60 arcsec by the end of the first half.

 

*Accomplishments*

# Afternoon: zeros, dome flat sequence (YziVRrgu).

# Evening: standards SDSSJ2300-0000 (secz 2.1), SDSSJ0000-0000 (secz 1.5), SDSSJ0320-0000 (secz 1.2).

# Overall:  SN-C3_z (394203-394214), SN-X2 (394215-394220), SN-X3_z (394221-394232), SN-S1 (394233-394238), SN-C1 (394239-394244), Wide-Field Survey hexes (394245-394257)

# Midpoint: Standards SDSSJ0320-0000 (secz 1.9), SDSSJ0933-0005 (secz 1.5), MaxVis (sec z 1.1) (MaxVis was a bonus, thanks to David James!)