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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-04-05

Date: 
Friday, April 5, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Christopher Morrison
Submitter Email: 
cbmorrison@ucdavis.edu
Observer Support: 
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant: 
Leonardo Paredes
Problems: 

Control GUIs crashed at after calibration. Simple restart seemed to fix work. No time lost.

Guider Failure on exp 194325. No guide stars in CCD. Resubmitted the exposure with a slight offset and was able to properly guide.

Guider Failure on exp 194333 (No Guide stars in CCD). Resubmitted with exposure with slight offset. Found 3 guide stars.

Comments: 

Pointing stable throughout most of the night. (~1 arcminute drift max over a long script)

Light clouds in the south on RASICAM for most of the night. Data taken was in the north and remained photometric.

Some guider problems though they can mostly be attributed to "luck of the draw" finding of u band stars bright enough for the guider. Target fields are at high galactic latitude and do not have many stars.

 

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
High
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Thin Clouds
Wind: 
High
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2103A-0386
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
10.25
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.25
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Galaxy and Mass Evolution
Primary Investigator: 
Paul Thorman
Email: 
pthorman@ucdavis.edu [1]
Institution: 
UC Davis
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
2013-04-05 10.25 0.0 0.25 0.0 0.0 10.5
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Links
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[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/832/delete?destination=print/node/3450
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/832/edit?destination=print/node/3450
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/3450?destination=print/node/3450