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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-06-13

Date: 
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Anja von der Linden
Submitter Email: 
anja@slac.stanford.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Adam Wright
Problems: 

Just a small issue: the GuiderGUI (in a TigerVNC window) stopped showing images of the guide stars (but the guider kept guiding). Even after a few hours, it did not restart showing images. We wanted to restart it, but could not find instructions for how to do so.

Comments: 

On the guider issue: since losing the guide stars is the most frequent alarm, but there's nothing to be done about it, maybe it could get a different alarm sound from the more serious alarms?
Also, once it has lost the guide stars, why is it not possible to "re-connect" during the same exposure?

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
12.00
Temperature Min: 
10.00
Humidity Max: 
40
Humidity Min: 
32
Wind Speed Max: 
17.00
Wind Speed Min: 
5.00
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.6
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
3
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.6
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
7
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
5
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.70
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
2
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-0360
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
9.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
2.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Primary Investigator: 
Anja von der Linden
Email: 
anja@slac.stanford.edu [1]
Institution: 
KIPAC
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
11.5
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Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-06-13 9.5 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 11.5

Source URL (modified on 06/14/2013 - 07:10): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/3873

Links
[1] mailto:anja@slac.stanford.edu
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/947/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-06-13
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/947/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-06-13
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/3873?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-06-13