Proposal:
2013A-9999
Target of Oportunity:
No
Time Observed:
0.0
Time Engineering:
8.75
Time lost technical:
0.0
Time lost weather:
0.0
Time lost other:
0.0
Description:
DECam engineering prop-id, but actually Blanco T&E work
Primary Investigator:
Alistair Walker
Email:
Institution:
NOAO
Instrument:
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization:
NOAO
Total Program Time:
8.75
First part of night spent testing the new non-sidereal tracking - observed 3 fast asteroids without problems producing nice, round, star-like images of the asteroids and suitably elongated streaks of stars. Rolo and Omar deserve applause for developing and integrating a new trajectory engine into the TCS. It worked flawlessly.
From 01:40am CDT, took Hysteresis Map (not the control map). Image numbers 487705-487896. Defocussed 1500microns, AOS off, 4MAP in test mode. These are good data for investigating axial hysteresis in the M1 radial supports.