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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2022-08-09

Date: 
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Guillermo Damke
Submitter Email: 
guillermo.damke@noirlab.edu
Observer Support: 
Alfredo Zenteno
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Rodrigo Hernandez, Manuel Hernandez
Problems: 

There was an Hexapod failure at 22:28 local time. The problem happened right after large slew of the telescope, and it was fixed by Claudio and Rodrigo in a few minutes. However, the (next) exposure was not restarted automatically by the system and I had to reload it to the queue.

Decals machine error at 4:31 local time. It had to be restarted.

Comments: 

None.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
A layer of cirrus clouds present during all night. Cloud cover worsening during second half of the night as the clouds thicken, especially during the last hours of the night.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
2
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
3
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
4
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
6
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2022A-597406
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
8.25
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.25
Time lost weather: 
0.5
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DeROSITAS - fields Y band
Primary Investigator: 
Alfredo Zenteno
Email: 
alfredo.zenteno@noirlab.edu [1]
Institution: 
CTIO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
9
Proposal: 
2020B-0053
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
1.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DECAT
Primary Investigator: 
Dillon Brout
Email: 
djbrout@gmail.com [4]
Institution: 
Harvard
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Total Program Time: 
1.75
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2022-08-09 10.0 0.0 0.25 0.5 0.0 10.75
Source URL (modified on 08/10/2022 - 06:13): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/19259

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[1] mailto:alfredo.zenteno@noirlab.edu
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[4] mailto:djbrout@gmail.com
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