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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2015-09-08

Date: 
Tuesday, September 8, 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: 
James Lasker, David James, Camila Naverrete
Problems: 

Clouds.

Comments: 

*Observing Team*

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

*Observing Plan*

# standard bias and dome flat sequence
# evening standard stars
# run ObsTac queue
# Handoff to Community Observers at 23:30 CLT
# Take over from Community Observers at 04:30 CLT
# end of night calibrations

*Conditions*

# weather in afternoon: 4pm (local): Clear but with forecast of partial clouds
# weather after dinner: 6pm (local): Partly Cloudy
# weather after sunset: 8pm (local): Clouds covering most of sky to varying degrees of opacity. Small circle overhead without clouds. Standards taken but likely low quality.
# weather during night: 9:15pm (local): Rasicam shows clouds encroaching from the East. Significant portions of DES Fields under some amount of cloud cover.
# Rest of the night under significant cloud cover, stars detected dropped to zero. Closed dome at 11:30 CLT and did not reopen. Zero patches of sky clear.

*Accomplishments*

# Afternoon: zeros done, (ugrizYVR) dome flats done, checked, OK
# Evening: Standards (E8-A, E6-A, High Airmass Standards skipped due to total cloud cover)
# aTmCam and GPS Monitor Checked.
# First Half Survey Exposures 472562-472645 (mostly r and i, few g and z scattered throughout, 6 Y at start of night, all likely spoiled by clouds);
# teff of -1.00 (Exposures 472604-5)

*Problems tagged as Synopsis_Problem*

# None

*Minor Problems and Relevant Information*

# Issue on DECals, see night summary.

*Notes for Data Management*

# Due to Clouds, it might be worth declaring exposures 472552-472561(Standards) as bad

# Due to Clouds causing teff near or equal to 0.00 for 472563-472645 (Survey Exposures), might be worth marking them as bad.

# Due to guide star failures and/or quickreduce failures, exposures 472609-614 and 472617-645  are almost certainly bad

# DECal issue

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
5
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
8
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
8
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
8
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0001
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
1.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
3.5
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: 
0.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
5.0
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
2015-09-08 1.5 0.0 0.0 8.5 0.0 10

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Links
[1] mailto:frieman@fnal.gov
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/2581/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2015-09-08
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/2581/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2015-09-08
[4] mailto:jchaname@astro.puc.cl
[5] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/2582/delete?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2015-09-08
[6] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/2582/edit?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2015-09-08
[7] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/8423?destination=print/content/enr-ctio-blanco-4-m-2015-09-08