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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2019-03-14

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Date: 
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Patrick Hartigan
Submitter Email: 
hartigan@sparky.rice.edu
Observer Support: 
Tim Abbott
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Rae Holcomb
Problems: 

Lost an hour at the beginning of the night owing to problems slewing, traced to faulty oil pump. The problem recurred at the end of the night, losing a half hour.

Also had a 2 hour computer failure in the early morning hours. DECam reported missing CCD extensions for 834458. We tried to restart syspi, but it did not come up correctly. Hernan had to come back up and use a master console to clear processes. Nothing especially exciting was happening when the failure occurred.

Comments: 

Good weather, some lost time owing to equipment issues.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2019A-0101
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
6.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
3.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Carina Time Series Deep Field
Primary Investigator: 
Hartigan
Email: 
hartigan@sparky.rice.edu
Institution: 
Rice University
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
9.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2019-03-14 6.0 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 9.5