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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2017-04-12

Date: 
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Kathy Vivas
Submitter Email: 
kvivas@ctio.noao.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Alfredo Zenteno, Humberto Orrego
Problems: 

DIMM 2 stopped working around 2:30am

Comments: 

First half: Enginnering. We completed the realignment of the fiber projector units in the DECal system. All 4 fiber projectors were re-aligned. It was quite tricky to reach all but one of the projectors. And we needed to do several iterations with the telescope at a position in which the projectors could be reached with the lift and pointing to the white spot.

The whole process took ~5 hours. Excellent work on site by Humberto Orrego, Hernan Tirado and Alfredo Zenteno. I also thank the remote help from Alistair Walker, Mauricio Rojas and Klaus Honscheid that were important to solve several difficulties we found in the way.

The power box of the DECal system was replaced by one kindly lended by SOAR (thanks Fabían!) and configured by Humberto. It worked fine. We need to buy a new one in order to return this one to SOAR.

There was no time left for going to the sky and complete the starflats in u, VR and N964. 

 

Second half: science observations for 2017A-0936. Everything went fine.

 

Small earthquake at 12:42am

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-9999
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
0.0
Time Engineering: 
5.5
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Engineering
Primary Investigator: 
A. Walker
Email: 
awalker@ctio.noao.edu [1]
Institution: 
CTIO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5.5
Proposal: 
2017A-0936
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
5.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Characterizing the Structure and the Formation Scenario of the Galactic Nuclear Bulge
Primary Investigator: 
Annalisa Calamida
Email: 
calamida@noao.edu [4]
Institution: 
NOAO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2017-04-12 5.5 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 11
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[4] mailto:calamida@noao.edu
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