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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-02-28

Date: 
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Ryan Chornock
Submitter Email: 
rchornock@cfa.harvard.edu
Observer Support: 
Mauricio Rojas
Night Assistant: 
Leonardo Paredes
Also Present: 
Tim Abbott
Problems: 

A couple of freezes of the GUI were easily fixed by reloading the GUI webpages.

We had one interloc failure with the OCS_STATUS that cost us about 5 minutes, which we fixed by going to the system control panel of the observer console and clicking the "Reset" button.  N.B. the online documentation (http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/Troubleshooting-0) calls it the "Refresh" button.

Otherwise, everything went smoothly.  Thanks to everybody for their help.

 

Comments: 

We used the "center" command on the analysis tools to keep track of the pointing center with DECam and had the telescope operators recenter the pointing offset whenever the pointing offsets exceeded ~20".  This was easy enough to do while observing that we could stay at a pretty good pointing position.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
20.00
Temperature Min: 
15.00
Humidity Max: 
50
Humidity Min: 
30
Wind Speed Max: 
15.00
Wind Speed Min: 
0.00
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-0214
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
8.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DECam LIGO Pilot Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Edo Berger
Email: 
eberger@cfa.harvard.edu [1]
Institution: 
Harvard
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
8.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-02-28 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.5
Source URL (modified on 03/01/2013 - 06:42): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/3250

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[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/756/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-02-28
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/3250?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-02-28