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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-09-29

Date: 
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Douglas Tucker
Submitter Email: 
dtucker@fnal.gov
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Leonardo Paredes
Also Present: 
Niall Maccrann, Steve Kuhlmann
Problems: 

RASICAM did not open at the beginning of the night.  It appears that an output data directory that is normally created automatically did not get created. 
David Rojas and Hernan Tirado manually created this directory and restarted the system.  Many thanks to Leonardo Paredes, David Rojas, and Hernan Tirado
for quickly getting it back online (by about 00:25UT)!

Comments: 

The first three-quarters of the night went very well.  Although we observed through the final quarter of the night,
heavy clouds during this time probably mean that most of  the data taken in the final 2.5 hours will probably be declared bad.

DIMM was not running, and hope it will be running again soon.  (A very nice resource!)

Also, would be nice to have the TASCA all-sky camera running again (for comparison against RASICAM).  TASCA seems to have not run since September 23.

Thanks!

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
4
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
8
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
10.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Dark Energy Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Josh Frieman
Email: 
frieman@fnal.gov [1]
Institution: 
DES
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
10
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-09-29 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10
Source URL (modified on 09/30/2013 - 06:29): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/4375

Links
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[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/1103/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-09-29
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/1103/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-09-29
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/4375?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2013-09-29