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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2021-11-04

Date: 
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Sean Points
Submitter Email: 
sean.points@noirlab.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Tim Abbott
Problems: 

TCS Interface Error at 20:21.  TCS Error Failed; ERROR Target out of range.  This may have been caused by trying to sllew to object when the airmass was greater than 2.  Could somebody please check?

Comments: 

Start of LMC N673 [SII] Survey.  Spent first hour of the night learning more about the GUI, taking standards through clouds, and taking some fields in the SMC before the LMC was below an airmass of 2.  Clouds from sunset until ~01:00.  Seeing was around 1.5" ffor first two hours.  Seeing dropped to ~1.1" for a bit but thenn increased.  Toward the end of the night the seeing was greater than 2".  Because of the clouds and seeing, we observed non-priority targets in the LMC.  Many thanks to Hernan, Alberto, and Tim for their patience while teaching me how to use the instrument.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
8
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
6
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.30
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
1
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
2.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2021B-0060
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
7.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Deep LMC DECam N673 [SII] Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Sean Points
Email: 
sean.points@noirlab.edu [1]
Institution: 
CTIO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
7.75
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2021-11-04 7.75 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.75
Source URL (modified on 11/05/2021 - 05:43): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/18301

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