The telescope made a very unsettling noise, like a whale singing (including changing volume and tone), on one target when almost precisely 3 hours west and at DEC -31. Upon checking in the dome it seemed to be related to the drives. Disconcerting for sure, but upon slewing to a new target, the singing stopped and was not heard the rest of the night.
If you're thinking about the classic lines from Moby Dick or the Star Trek Movie along the lines of "There be whales!" ... I checked and didn't see any.
Leonardo was not (yet) successful in resurrecting the appropriate connections between the Yale database and CTIO queue to a level where I could just be a DES-button-pusher, so I entered coordinates and bits into the GUI manually tonight. I suffer so.
| Total Times | Time Observed | Time Engineering | Time lost technical | Time lost weather | Time lost other | Total Program Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-16 | 9.25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.25 |
| 2019-02-16 | 18.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18.5 |
| 2019-02-16 | 9.25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.25 |
Links
[1] mailto:thenry@astro.gsu.edu
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/8788/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2019-02-16-3
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/8788/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2019-02-16-3
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/15311?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2019-02-16-3
Program completed successfully ... and then some. Both additional targets observed, plus one more that was not on the schedule --- HIP074926 for program 428.
Leonardo heads south to Chile today (Sunday), so even though he created a full schedule for me on my last night, I might go rogue and just observe anything I want to.
Maybe I'll go looking for whales.