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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-04-07

Date: 
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Nicholas Bate
Submitter Email: 
nbate@physics.usyd.edu.au
Observer Support: 
Alistair Walker
Night Assistant: 
Leonardo Paredes
Also Present: 
Melissa Ness
Problems: 

Exposure 194836 aborted, due to telescope failure at 9pm local (midnight UTC). Known problem. Telescope returned to zenith, restarted.

 

ower out at 3am for 45 minutes - mains supply

center CCD option is not working

if you do multiple exposures on center CCD it keeps offseting as well.

Script for making the photometric standards does not fill the ra and dec for all exposures

Otherwise v good. 

 

Comments: 

Nothing to report for the first quarter of the night. Telescope is performing well, apart from the minor (and swiftly corrected) blip at 9:00pm. Weather is clear.

Nothing to report for the second quarter of the night. Telescope continued to perform fine. Seeing went out a bit towards the end, as target approached the horizon.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.30
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Seeing Value: 
1.20
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-0616
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
4.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
On the Ongoing Demise of the Carina Dwarf Galaxy
Primary Investigator: 
Lewis
Email: 
gfl@physics.usyd.edu.au [1]
Institution: 
The University of Sydney
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
N/A
Total Program Time: 
4
Proposal: 
2013A-0615
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
2.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
1.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
1.0
Description: 
The extremely faint outer disk of the Milky Way analogue M83
Primary Investigator: 
Joss Bland-Hawthorn
Email: 
jbh@physics.usyd.edu.au [4]
Institution: 
The University of Sydney
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
4.75
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-04-07 6.75 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 8.75
Source URL (modified on 04/08/2013 - 20:50): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/ENR-CTIO-Blanco-4-m-2013-04-07

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