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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-06-11

Date: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Hynes
Submitter Email: 
rih@phys.lsu.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Javier Rojas, Chris Johnson, Catherine Kaleida
Problems: 

The shutter error ocurred early on in the beginning of the night and the electronics technician came in and cycled the power and fixed the problem. We also had the problem of several ccds not showing up on the comfort display for one image, exposure number: 211346. The problem was corrected by restarting SISPI.

Comments: 

Wish list:

1. It would be very useful to have offsets (on the sky) of each CCD relative to the center of the field of view to better plan pointings and know the expected footprint of the array on the sky.

2. It would be fantastic if the community pipeline were eventually a software package that could be run locally to reprocess data with features turned on and off and the ability to fix problems (as is possible for example with HST pipelines). 

Everything went very smoothly, DECam is a pleasure to use.  Fantastic instrument, great support!

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
15.00
Temperature Min: 
13.50
Humidity Max: 
31
Humidity Min: 
25
Wind Speed Max: 
15.00
Wind Speed Min: 
3.00
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.30
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0617
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
10.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Classifying X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Hynes
Email: 
rih@phys.lsu.edu [1]
Institution: 
Louisiana State University
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
11
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-06-11 10.5 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 11
Source URL (modified on 06/12/2013 - 06:23): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/3862

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