Telescope misbehaved tonight!:
* While observing target BU CMii at the beginning of the second exposure (1138), the telescope began to move North-South, I stopped the observation, moved to a close star and the telescope was back to normal. Then I took the 2 remaining images.
* 1:08 LT pointing lost, back to observe at 01:52LT.
* 3:52 LT telescope lost tracking.
I keep seeing the drift to the West, at times even when guiding!
cagvm site for telemetry couldn't be reached at times after ~1:00 LT. We lost access to the noao-south WiFi network intermittently, so that page and others, including the night report couldn’t be accessed from WiFi.
In the ctiomac3 there was no folder for the night, I created the folder and I set the first science image as 1120. It seems there are no afternoon calibrations.
I got the following error message at the beginning of the night. ”GUI ERROR ON COMMAND EXPM SEND …” I re-started the exposure meter.
| Total Times | Time Observed | Time Engineering | Time lost technical | Time lost weather | Time lost other | Total Program Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-09 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10 |
Links
[1] mailto:thenry@astro.gsu.edu
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/42233/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2023-03-09
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/42233/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2023-03-09
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/20128?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-15-m-2023-03-09
Mostly clear night, cirrus close to the horizon during the first half of the night.
No DIMM tonight, the seeing according to RINGSS ranged approximately from 0.6 to 2+ arcsec.
Targets skipped: HD105004, V1280 Sco and V5856 Sgr.
Image 1133, wrong object name in the header it should be TIC0220144363.