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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-04-14

Date: 
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Sarah Sweet
Submitter Email: 
sarah@sarahsweet.com.au
Observer Support: 
Mauricio Rojas
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
David Herrera , Alissa Earle
Problems: 

 

- Guider viewing window did not come online for first long (125 sec) exposure, with error beep to alert this. Came online of its own accord during the second exposure. (This happened last night as well.) Image quality is fine.
- 15 min lost due to exposure queue pausing (on exp 197206). I looked up to see the Go button flashing green and red, and there was no exposure in progress or reading out. Pressing Go button restarted the queue as expected. No explanation as to why the queue had paused.
- Power outage (5 seconds) ceased data taking (15 min lost).
Comments: 

Alberto, Mauricio and Tim were very helpful throughout the run. Thanks very much for an overall smooth observing experience!

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
18.00
Temperature Min: 
16.00
Humidity Max: 
15
Humidity Min: 
1
Wind Speed Max: 
9.00
Wind Speed Min: 
1.50
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
0.83
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
0
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.90
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Clear
Wind: 
Medium
Seeing Value: 
0.85
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
0
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013A-0614
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
10.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.5
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
The effect of the group environment on the formation of UCDs
Primary Investigator: 
Sarah Sweet
Email: 
sarah@sarahsweet.com.au [1]
Institution: 
University of Queensland
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
N/A
Total Program Time: 
10.5
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-04-14 10.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 10.5
Source URL (modified on 04/15/2013 - 07:35): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/ENR-CTIO-Blanco-4-m-2013-04-14

Links
[1] mailto:sarah@sarahsweet.com.au
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/851/delete?destination=print/node/3479
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/851/edit?destination=print/node/3479
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/3479?destination=print/node/3479