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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2015-05-22

Date: 
Friday, May 22, 2015
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
David Herrera
Submitter Email: 
herrera@noao.edu
Observer Support: 
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Leonardo Paredes
Problems: 

LOCAL TIME - WEATHER ISSUES

3:21 Thick clouds coming in. Southern sky not so bad, northern sky fully overcast.

Lost guiding 3 exposures in a row. Took a break to wait for them to pass

3:36 resume (15 mins lost for weather)

4:05 - 3 images in a row without guider: thick clouds again, rolling from the Northwest. Stop observations

4:25 - Alberto decides to close the dome since these thick clouds might bring rain

5:10 - Open again & resume observations (additional 1:05 lost to weather)

 

NO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER!

Comments: 

We tested remote observing from Tucson with Lori Allen for a couple of hours. She was able to display most important GUI's and webpages and load json scripts without problems. Loading images in ds9 via Kent Tools was quite slow though.

Fairly satisfactory performance.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.10
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
2
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Cirrus
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
2
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
5
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.40
Seeing Variability: 
0.4
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky: 
4
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Program: 
Proposal: 
2013B-0536
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
9.5
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
1.5
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DECam NEO Survey
Primary Investigator: 
Lori Allen
Email: 
lallen@noao.edu [1]
Institution: 
NOAO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
11
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2015-05-22 9.5 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 11
Source URL (modified on 05/23/2015 - 07:44): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/ENR-CTIO-Blanco-4-m-2015-05-22

Links
[1] mailto:lallen@noao.edu
[2] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/2376/delete?destination=print/node/7807
[3] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/2376/edit?destination=print/node/7807
[4] http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/field-collection/field-nr-prog/add/node/7807?destination=print/node/7807