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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2019-08-19

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Date: 
Monday, August 19, 2019
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Clara Martinez-Vazquez
Submitter Email: 
Observer Support: 
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Alfredo Zenteno
Problems: 
 

At 09:27 UT DECam gave us the alarm "DECam OCS lost connection Interlock (SISPI) is now broken”. We tried RESET and CONFIGURE and did not work. Claudio sent the telescope to Zenith, in case the problem was from the TCS. The telescope moved to that position. We tried RESET and CONFIGURE again without positive results. We decide to restart SISPI. The interlock problem was fixed, however, Claudio told me TCS showed no connection with DECam. We took some zeros and it worked but when we tried to load one object, we had the error "TCS INTERFACE FAILED: TCS IS NOT READY. STATUS NOT CONNECTED". We did a RESET and it worked. However, Claudio told me TCS was not able to see DECam as connected. We restarted again SISPI with "architect -c DES.ini" command because "architect -c eric.ini" did not work. After this we had another trouble, Vsub was yellow… I check the notes in the DECam support pages. We checked the crates and Claudio told me they were all working. We followed the instructions that are in the DECam Support Pages and wrote the command "get vsub details" into the Architect Console and nothing happened… Vsub is still in yellow... We did not know what else to do...
Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
2
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
1
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
1
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2019B-0323
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
5.25
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
The DECam eROSITA Survey (DeROSITAS)
Primary Investigator: 
Alfredo Zenteno
Institution: 
CTIO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5.25
Proposal: 
2019B-0403
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
4.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
1.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
The hunt of RR Lyrae stars in ultra-faint systems
Primary Investigator: 
Clara Martinez-Vazquez
Institution: 
CTIO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5.5
Proposal: 
2019B-0922
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
0.25
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Bright DECam SN search: a view of the high-z transient universe
Primary Investigator: 
Regis Cartier
Institution: 
CTIO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
0.25
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2019-08-19 10.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 11