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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2024-07-22

Date: 
Monday, July 22, 2024
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Kathy Vivas
Submitter Email: 
kathy.vivas@noirlab.edu
Observer Support: 
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Claudio Aguilera
Also Present: 
Rodrigo Hernandez, Konstantina Boutsia
Problems: 

Trim=0 at the start of the night. We manually set the value to 1000. Focus was reached after a few short images.

23:41 UT: Missing CCD extensions error. Inddeed, backplane 4 was missing for image 1313347 (S4, N4, S5, N5, S6, N6, S7, N7). Solved with a configure. Did not happen again the rest of the night.

 

Controlling screen with Zoom got VERY slow after ~2am.

 

Comments: 

Engineering night: everything worked well (except the seeing!). Spectrophotometric standard stars in each CCD were taken with filters M411, M464 and N395. In addition a sequence of a globular cluster in N395 was taken to help MAGIC calibration. From 04:00 LCT until the end of the night, KB observed the Fornax field for seach of z-dropouts.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
2.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
2.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
2.50
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-9999
Target of Oportunity: 
yes
Time Observed: 
0.0
Time Engineering: 
11.5
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Engineering
Primary Investigator: 
Walker
Email: 
alistair.walker@noirlab.edu [1]
Institution: 
CTIO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
11.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2024-07-22 0.0 11.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.5
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[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/43573/edit?destination=print/node/21831
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/21831?destination=print/node/21831