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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-04-04

Date: 
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Christopher Morrison
Submitter Email: 
cbmorrison@ucdavis.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Leonardo Paredes
Problems: 

Guider failure durning first u band exposure of the night. Failed durning a short "pointing" not during a science image.

Lost guider on exp 194103. No active CCDs. Increased guider time to 1800ms, failure precisted. Re-submitted image to the queue, found 3 guide stars.

Moved telescope to "bonus" target at end of night. Was not informed of galactic coordiantes of pointing ahead of time and over exposed, saturating a majority of objects.

Comments: 

Guider ran smoothly after inital problems.

Telescope pointing was again stable to within ~30 arcseconds in each of RA and DEC over a 4 hour script time.

Standard field finder script was very useful.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
High
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-0386
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
10.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Galaxy and Mass Evolution
Primary Investigator: 
Paul Thorman
Email: 
paulthorman@gmail.com [1]
Institution: 
UC Davis
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
10.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-04-04 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5
Source URL (modified on 04/05/2013 - 07:32): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/3447

Links
[1] mailto:paulthorman@gmail.com
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/830/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-04-04
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/830/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-04-04
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/3447?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-04-04