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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2015-09-07

Date: 
Monday, September 7, 2015
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Ross Cawthon
Submitter Email: 
rcawthon@oddjob.uchicago.edu
Observer Support: 
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
David James, Camila Naverrete
Problems: 

None.

Comments: 

*Observing Team*

_DES Observers:_ Ross Cawthon, David James
_Telops:_ Manuel Hernandez, Claudio Aguilera
_Remote Support:_ ---

*Observing Plan*

# DES until 11:30 CLT, then community time, then DES starts again 4:30 CLT
# evening Standard stars
# run ObsTac queue
# morning standards

*Conditions*

# Scattered clouds and humidity around 75% to start the night.
# With humidity stabilized around 75%, dome opened at 9:34 CLT. Plan to wait 10 minutes for telescope to equilibrate temperature after not being opened at all last night. See how conditions go.
# Standards began at 10:01, ObsTac started at 10:13
# Early part of night, seeing quite bad as mirror 2 or so degrees warmer than dome. Image seeing often around 2 arcmin.
# Rest of night conditions pretty good, seeing around 1 arcmin. Clear skies.

*Accomplishments*

# Evening standards (taken late, see above), E8-A, SDSSJ2300-0000
# Satellite and aTmCam checked.
# Early night (bad seeing due to dome/telescope temperature) many g and r band widefield images
# SN-E1 done early in the night, while the seeing was bad (>1.7 arcmin on images)
# At end of night (seeing 1-1.4 arcmin): SN-E2, SN-X2, SN-X3 observed
# Morning standards SDSSJ0100-0000, SDSSJ0320-0000, SDSSJ0320-0000
# Weekly defocus/refocus script ran

*Minor Problems and Relevant Information*

# See weather delays above.

*Notes for Data Management*

# Early night images had poor seeing, including SN-E1.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
High
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
3.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
1.5
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Dark Energy Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Josh Frieman
Email: 
frieman@fnal.gov [1]
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5
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Proposal: 
2015B-0601
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
5.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DECam Search for the Elusive Stellar Counterpart of the Magellanic Stream
Primary Investigator: 
J. Chaname
Email: 
jchaname@astro.puc.cl [4]
Institution: 
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
Chile
Total Program Time: 
5
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Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2015-09-07 8.5 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 10

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[4] mailto:jchaname@astro.puc.cl
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