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ENR CTIO 1.5-m 2018-06-19

Date: 
Monday, June 18, 2018
Telescope: 
CTIO 1.5-m
Submitter: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Submitter Email: 
rhinojosa@ctio.noao.edu
Observer Support: 
None
Night Assistant: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Problems: 

At 08:15 UT the telescope lost the pointing. 

 

The hand paddle buttons in the dome do not work correctly, they appear to be moving the telescope but the telescope has not movement. The message "slew active" is seen in the screen of the TCS computer. I turned off/on the drives switch in the TCS to be able to use the hand paddle again, this process was done several times. Finally, after of 1h45m, I could fix the pointing. 

Comments: 

TELOPS: Please check the hand paddle in the dome, it is not working correctly.

 

No data from the DIMM tower, as a reference the seeing values from the 1.3m telescope are: seeing (Beginning of Night)= 1.3, Seeing (Middle of Night)=1.3 and Seeing(End of Night)=1.3.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
High
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
10.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
2.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Primary Investigator: 
Todd Henry
Email: 
thenry@astro.gsu.edu [1]
Institution: 
SMARTS
Instrument: 
CTIO 1.5m Echelle
Organization: 
SMARTS
Total Program Time: 
12
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2018-06-18 10.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 12
Source URL (modified on 06/20/2018 - 06:55): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/14134

Links
[1] mailto:thenry@astro.gsu.edu
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/6377/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2018-06-19
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/6377/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2018-06-19
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/14134?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2018-06-19