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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2014-01-12

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Date: 
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Armin Rest
Submitter Email: 
arest@stsci.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Problems: 

None.

Comments: 

First half was DES, second half was community time.

---------COMMENTS FROM DES OBSERVERS----------------

*Observing Team*
 
_DES Observers:_ Kathy Romer, Claudio Bruderer, Philip Rooney
_Telops:_ Hernan Tirado, Claudio Aguilera
_Remote Support:_ ---
 
*Observing Plan*
 
# standard bias and dome flat sequence
# evening standard stars
# run ObsTac queue
# middle/end of the night standard star 
# handover to community observers
# end of night calibrations 
 
*Conditions*
 
# weather during the day and night: Sky was clear and only little haze showing on Rasicam
# Seeing conditions: Median 0.78, RMS 0.23
# Wind conditions: Oscillating around ~9 mph
# Humidity: ~45%
 
*Accomplishments*
 
# Afternoon: zeros, dome flats (ugriz). 
# Evening: Standards (SDSSJ0000-0000,SDSSJ0100-0000,SDSSJ0320-0000) 
# Survey Exposures 273635-273751
# Middle of night: Standards (SDSSJ1048-0000)
 
*Problems tagged as Synopsis_Problem*
 
*Minor Problems and Relevant Information*
 
# Occlusion alarms: 273677: 7.96 delta,Zd=41.35 ZD; 273678: 9.38 delta,Zd=43.02; 273729: 6.36 delta,Zd=43.7
# Wind screen raised at 03:15 UT at 10%
 
*Notes for Data Management*
 
# 273637 and 273673 stray light mostly affecting CCDs S31,S28,S24,S27,S23
 

----------END OF COMMENTS FROM DES OBSERVERS----

Everything went well.

Note: If images are put into the queue before the program ID is changed, it will keep the old program ID!!

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.50
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.60
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.60
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001 / 2013B-0421
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
8.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DES/Light Echos
Primary Investigator: 
Frieman / Rest
Email: 
claudio.bruderer@phys.ethz.ch
Institution: 
ETH Zurich
Total Program Time: 
8
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2014-01-12 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8