Date:
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Telescope:
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter:
Sean Points
Submitter Email:
Observer Support:
Hernan Tirado
Night Assistant:
Jackie Seron
Also Present:
Alistair Walker
Problems:
There was some of the striping/nois in some of the detectors again tonight. Examples can be seen in images, 0445, 0455, 0505. We also noticed that the dark fram really isn't dark. We took darks frames during afternoon calibration. During the night, I changed exposure times and decided to take some darks while taking the images of M42. We could still see M42 even though the dark was in place. Alistair did some digging around and we can see that the positions for the dark are incorrect. Enail has been sent to Marco.
Program:
Proposal:
NEWFIRM Commissioning
Target of Oportunity:
No
Time Observed:
0.0
Time Engineering:
7.5
Time lost technical:
0.0
Time lost weather:
0.0
Time lost other:
0.0
Description:
NEWFIRM Commissioning
Primary Investigator:
Alistair Walker
Email:
Institution:
CTIO
Instrument:
CTIO 4m Newfirm
Organization:
NOAO
Total Program Time:
7.5
| Total Times | Time Observed | Time Engineering | Time lost technical | Time lost weather | Time lost other | Total Program Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-14 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.5 |
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Another good night of NEWFIRM observing. Took pretty pictures of M42 and 30Dor in JHK 1.64, 2.12, and 2.17 microns. Spent other time testing focus offsets, checking sky brightness versus Moon distance, and stadard stars.