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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-03-28

Date: 
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Wilson Cauley
Submitter Email: 
pwc1@rice.edu
Observer Support: 
Mauricio Rojas
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Problems: 

 

The hexapod went offline at UT~7:00.  It stopped updating the new focus positions and as a result the telescope gradually drifted out of focus.  Once it came back online it maintained the bad focus, i.e. it could not re-establish a good focus but it did not get any worse.  Andrea Kunder and Mauricio Rojas were contacted and they restarted SISPI and the hexapod was able to re-focus.  

The Architect Console GUI timed out and would not reload.  We fixed this by copying the web address from the Chrome address bar and pasting it into a NEW window.  This seems to consitently work if the page has timed out and is preferable to trying to reload the page using the 'reload' option on the Chrome toolbar.  

Comments: 

To do Zero Point it is necessary to apply addition/substraction to ZP Abs.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
16.00
Temperature Min: 
14.00
Humidity Max: 
40
Humidity Min: 
20
Wind Speed Max: 
5.00
Wind Speed Min: 
2.00
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
3
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
2
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-0715
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
9.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
1.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Carina Deep-Field Time Series
Primary Investigator: 
Hartigan
Email: 
hartigan@sparky.rice.edu [1]
Institution: 
Rice University
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
10.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-03-28 9.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0 10.5
Source URL (modified on 03/29/2013 - 06:17): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/ENR-CTIO-Blanco-4-m-2013-03-28

Links
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[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/812/delete?destination=print/node/3423
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/812/edit?destination=print/node/3423
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/3423?destination=print/node/3423