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ENR CTIO 1.5-m 2019-07-16

Date: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Telescope: 
CTIO 1.5-m
Submitter: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Submitter Email: 
rhinojosa@ctio.noao.edu
Observer Support: 
None
Night Assistant: 
Rodrigo Hinojosa
Problems: 

Calibrations in the afternoon finished late, about 20 minutes after the time to start observations.

CHIRON log is not working.

At 02:20 UT, after of observing TIC451645081, the Th-Ar lamp failed, the lamp error window shows the message: Lamp set Th-Ar off --> CHIRON ERROR unknown ADAM model. I tried to get some lamp spectra but only background signal was obtained, it seems like if the lamp is burned, or the lamp doesn't receive enough energy, or something like that. I did the standard procedure trying to solve this problem: Turn Off/On the Chiron's software, reboot the Chiron computer, and reboot the torrent, nothing helped me to fix the problem.  After of that we (Hernan, Humberto, Rodrigo and I) tried to find the origin of the problem without positive results, it is necessary a deeper analysis. The rest of the night I followed the schedule skipping the lamps.

Comments: 

None.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.6
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
1
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Program: 
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
9.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
3.0
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
2019-07-16 9.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 12
Source URL (modified on 07/17/2019 - 07:02): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/16000

Links
[1] mailto:thenry@astro.gsu.edu
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/17063/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2019-07-16
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/17063/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2019-07-16
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/16000?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2019-07-16