ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2012-11-11

Date: 
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
R Blum
Observer Support: 
Mauricio Rojas
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
D Norman, A Saha, R Blum
Problems: 
During DES time, 2205. TCS application on operator1 froze. DES team. Seeing large E-W jitter tonight at southern dec (-41 deg), but near meridian, also at zenith. Seems better at first when moving away, but then worse again. Klaus installed a new hexapod LUT before we began tonight. Back to original hex LUT, no change. So this behavior is significantly worse than what we have seen in the last few nights. Later in community SV time, telescope much better wrt jitter, but not clear why. We are at similar range of declinations and HA. E.g., at 5 am, -20 deg, HA=3.5 hr, see e=0.03 with FWHM=1.2''.
Comments: 
Night report form barfed "form outdated." So this is abbreviated. Smooth night.
Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
18.00
Temperature Min: 
13.00
Humidity Max: 
4
Humidity Min: 
2
Wind Speed Max: 
0.00
Wind Speed Min: 
5.00

Quarters

Program: 
Proposal: 
DECam SV
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
7.75
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Community SV time
Primary Investigator: 
D Norman
Email: 
dnorman@noao.edu
Institution: 
NOAO
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
7.75
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2012-11-11 7.75 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.75