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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2023-08-16

Date: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Guillermo Damke
Submitter Email: 
guillermo.damke@noirlab.edu
Observer Support: 
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Problems: 

None.

Comments: 

Observations carried out for the first ~1.5 hours of the night. Lost the guider due to clouds on the last exposure around 20:50 CLT. Next, we closed the dome at 21:00 local time due to thick clouds. Called it a night at 2:00 AM, after checking the hourly weather forecast showing a cloud coverage of 100% for the rest of the night.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
Dome closed due to clouds at 21:00 local time. Conditions did not improve until the time of this report (2:15AM local). Weather forecast shows clouds at 100% for the rest of the night.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.60
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
2
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
8
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
8
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Overcast
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
8
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2023B-646244
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
1.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
4.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
MAGIC
Primary Investigator: 
Chiti
Email: 
achiti@uchicago.edu [1]
Institution: 
University of Chicago
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
5.5
Proposal: 
2020B-0288
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
0.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
5.5
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
The MERIAN Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Leauthaud
Email: 
alexie@ucsc.edu [4]
Institution: 
UCSC
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
2023-08-16 1.5 0.0 0.0 9.5 0.0 11
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