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ENR CTIO 1.5-m 2020-02-19

Date: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Telescope: 
CTIO 1.5-m
Submitter: 
Roberto Aviles
Submitter Email: 
raviles@ctio.noao.edu
Observer Support: 
None
Night Assistant: 
None
Problems: 

06:50 UT Fails to start 1155 (eta Car 240s) BUT green log reports like it is running while on CHIRON optGUI exposure time did not start. Rebooted  CHIRON OPTGUI, ok.

Something similar happen to 1159 plus, CHIRON seems "frozen", plus the "error sending object info to CLI". Reboot was 'not enough', it was needed to retry a number of times until exposure started (it might help to know if there is a low level way to start the exposure, so to circumvent the GUI.) This happens to sci objects, not to calibrations.

Comments: 

At startup, TCS GUI answers very slowly, plus pointing wrong (Alpha Ori, degrees apart), Electronics David Rojas rebooted it and, it was NOT needed to fix the pointing (odd.)

No time for: RTW1512-3941B, 77421, 408335, 6533031, 46536.  Ended last integration w/Sun at -9.5 degrees Altitude

DIMM2 unstable, in particular, not available last quarter of night.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.80
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
Pachon Seeing Monitor
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
K Kids
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
9.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Primary Investigator: 
Todd Henry
Email: 
thenry@astro.gsu.edu [1]
Institution: 
SMARTS
Instrument: 
CTIO 1.5m Echelle
Organization: 
SMARTS
Total Program Time: 
9.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2020-02-19 9.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 9.5
Source URL (modified on 02/20/2020 - 06:51): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/ENR-CTIO-15-m-2020-02-19

Links
[1] mailto:thenry@astro.gsu.edu
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/29296/delete?destination=print/node/16969
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/29296/edit?destination=print/node/16969
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/16969?destination=print/node/16969