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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2025-10-03

Date: 
Friday, October 3, 2025
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Guillermo Damke (1st half) / Yongming Liang (2nd half)
Submitter Email: 
guillermo.damke@noirlab.edu
Observer Support: 
Rodrigo Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Roberto Avilés, Sean Points
Problems: 

Roberto reported that, in some cases, the values for the A, B1 and B2 coefficients for f/8 drift compared to the usual values seen in the TCS. For example, A shows almost 600 units and  B2 goes to 720, which is higher than usual. Roberto forced a f/8 correction and the values go much closer to the "default" values (A around -230 and B2=323). I took test images before and after the correction and the FWHM improved from 4.0–4.2 pixels down to 3.5–3.7 pixels, or from 5.5 to 4.5 pixels in another case. It looks like the values change to the higher values when filters are changed (JX -> HX, for example). Is it possible to check if this is the expected behavior of the system?

The 2nd-half night has a problem in star elongation, which may be due to the strong wind, suggested by Sean. We decided to use guiding for the 180s exposures. However, the guidling failed at the begining, but it comes back after several exposure.

Comments: 

AEON observations on the first half. It ran smoothly. We are forcing apply correction to f/8 on every large slew, which seems to improve image quality.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
AEON
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
4.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
NEWFIRM AEON observations
Primary Investigator: 
Guillermo Damke
Email: 
guillermo.damke@noirlab.edu [1]
Institution: 
CTIO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m Newfirm
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
4.5
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Proposal: 
2025B-897187
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
4.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Narrow-Band H-alpha Survey of Massive Galaxy Clusters and Large-Scale Structure
Primary Investigator: 
Yongming Liang
Email: 
ymliang@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp [4]
Institution: 
U of Tokyo
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m Newfirm
Organization: 
N/A
Total Program Time: 
5
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Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2025-10-03 9.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 9.5

Source URL (modified on 10/04/2025 - 06:31): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/node/23239

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[4] mailto:ymliang@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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