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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2016-07-28

Date: 
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Chris Curtin
Submitter Email: 
ccurtin074@yahoo.com
Observer Support: 
Tim Abbott
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Tyler Pritchard, Manuel Hernandez
Problems: 

Some perhaps greater than average difficulty with the work station.  My scripts call for relatively large dithers and each exposure throws a large dither warning.  Then the alarm history gets overwhelmed with all the incoming alarms and freezes, freezing the observer console which is trying to send more alarms, and then all the other terminals seem to fail in turn.

Also the DIMM2 seeing data was unavailable all night.

Comments: 

I learned tonight about a kentool qcInvPrint which is not accessible when running the observer command but from the godb command in observer2.  This is one of the most powerful kentools available and I think it should be more emphasized (we sort of stumbled onto it this evening thanks to Armin Rest asking for a print out of some images we've taken for him.  We found it in the manual but it hasn't been mentioned to me by anyone and is a bit difficult to find unless you know you're looking for it).  I also understand that it can only print values for the current nights exposures.  This is very unfortunate, and I wonder if there is any way to recover the qcInvPrint for the past 2 nights of observing as with the highly variable cloud cover, it would be enourmously helpful at identifying the good and bad images

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
4
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.6
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
6
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
4
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
8
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2016A-0620
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
2.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
u-SUDSS
Primary Investigator: 
Curtin
Email: 
ccurtin074@yahoo.com [1]
Institution: 
Swinburne University of Technology
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
2.5
Proposal: 
2016A-0095
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
8.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.75
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Deeper, Wider, Faster
Primary Investigator: 
Cooke
Email: 
jeffreycooke@swin.edu.au [4]
Institution: 
Swinburne University of Technology
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
9.25
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2016-07-28 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.75 0.0 11.75
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