Date:
Monday, September 24, 2018
Telescope:
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter:
Will Dawson
Submitter Email:
Observer Support:
Alfredo Zenteno
Night Assistant:
Alberto Alvarez
Problems:
None.
Program:
Proposal:
2018A-0273
Target of Oportunity:
No
Time Observed:
8.5
Time Engineering:
0.0
Time lost technical:
0.0
Time lost weather:
1.5
Time lost other:
0.0
Description:
Paralensing Survey of Intermediate Mass Black Holes
Primary Investigator:
Will Dawson
Email:
Institution:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Instrument:
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization:
NOAO
Total Program Time:
10
| Total Times | Time Observed | Time Engineering | Time lost technical | Time lost weather | Time lost other | Total Program Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-24 | 8.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 10 |
Except for the last quarter of the night, we were plagued by intermitent clouds. The data that we took from UT 3:20 - 4:30 is basically useless due to the high extinction from cloud cover. It became so bad that we stopped taking data from UT 4:30 - 05:05 when the clouds became transparent enough to see some of the brighter objects. So we effectively lost ~1.5 hours of data to clouds and approximately the first 3/4 of the night were significantly affected by clouds. This coupled with the near full moon resulted in small t_eff.