ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2014-01-12

Date:

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Telescope:

CTIO Blanco 4-m

Submitter:

Armin Rest

Submitter Email:

arest@stsci.edu

Observer Support:

Hernan Tirado

Night Assistant:

Claudio Aguilera

Problems:

None.

Comments:

First half was DES, second half was community time.

---------COMMENTS FROM DES OBSERVERS----------------

*Observing Team*

_DES Observers:_ Kathy Romer, Claudio Bruderer, Philip Rooney

_Telops:_ Hernan Tirado, Claudio Aguilera

_Remote Support:_ ---

*Observing Plan*

# standard bias and dome flat sequence

# evening standard stars

# run ObsTac queue

# middle/end of the night standard star

# handover to community observers

# end of night calibrations

*Conditions*

# weather during the day and night: Sky was clear and only little haze showing on Rasicam

# Seeing conditions: Median 0.78, RMS 0.23

# Wind conditions: Oscillating around ~9 mph

# Humidity: ~45%

*Accomplishments*

# Afternoon: zeros, dome flats (ugriz).

# Evening: Standards (SDSSJ0000-0000,SDSSJ0100-0000,SDSSJ0320-0000)

# Survey Exposures 273635-273751

# Middle of night: Standards (SDSSJ1048-0000)

*Problems tagged as Synopsis_Problem*

*Minor Problems and Relevant Information*

# Occlusion alarms: 273677: 7.96 delta,Zd=41.35 ZD; 273678: 9.38 delta,Zd=43.02; 273729: 6.36 delta,Zd=43.7

# Wind screen raised at 03:15 UT at 10%

*Notes for Data Management*

# 273637 and 273673 stray light mostly affecting CCDs S31,S28,S24,S27,S23

----------END OF COMMENTS FROM DES OBSERVERS----

Everything went well.

Note: If images are put into the queue before the program ID is changed, it will keep the old program ID!!

Conditions:

General Conditions

Comment:

None.

1st Quarter

Clouds:

Clear

Wind:

Low

Seeing Value:

0.70

Seeing Variability:

0.2

Seeing Source:

CTIO Seeing monitor

Sky :

2nd Quarter

Clouds:

Clear

Wind:

Low

Seeing Value:

0.50

Seeing Variability:

Seeing Source:

CTIO Seeing monitor

Sky:

3rd Quarter

Clouds:

Clear

Seeing Value:

0.60

Seeing Variability:

0.2

Seeing Source:

CTIO Seeing monitor

Sky:

4th Quarter

Clouds:

Clear

Seeing Value:

0.60

Seeing Variability:

0.2

Seeing Source:

CTIO Seeing monitor

Sky:

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Program:

Proposal:

2012B-0001 / 2013B-0421

Target of Oportunity:

Time Observed:

8.0

Time Engineering:

0.0

Time lost technical:

0.0

Time lost weather:

0.0

Time lost other:

0.0

Description:

DES/Light Echos

Primary Investigator:

Frieman / Rest

Email:

claudio.bruderer@phys.ethz.ch [1]

Institution:

ETH Zurich

Total Program Time:

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Total Times	Time Observed	Time Engineering	Time lost technical	Time lost weather	Time lost other	Total Program Time
2014-01-12	8.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	8