OSU/RC Queue Observing: UTC 2010 May 18
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Observers:
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Rick Pogge (OSU), Chris Howk (ND)

Observing Assistant: David Gonzalez Huerta
Support Astronomer: Olga Kuhn
Instrumentation: John Morris

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Instrument:
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LBC

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Quick Summary
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(1) Calib   : biases

(2) Science : 
    UVaHCG62  - Finished one OB on this target; no corresponding flats.
    NDwhim    - Finished one OB for PG1206+459; no corresponding flats.
    No flats because of clouds and high winds

Time Lost:
 - weather        5.0 hr
 - instrument     1.15 hr
 - telescope      0

Started out the night with thick high cloud at sunset that precluded
taking evening sky flats.  Opened and worked through variable cirrus 
in ~1-arcsec seeing until shutdown by high winds which precluded 
taking dawn sky flats.  Lost a little over an hour to instrument
problems: blue camera faults requiring repeat full restarts.

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Detailed Notes:
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Afternoon - Took 25 biases, but with lights on.  Last files in this
	  sequence were lbcb.20100517.222057.fits and
	  lbcr.20100517.221913.fits.


UTC 03:07 - Starting to get on the sky; cloudy conditions, but a
	  window open for now.

	  - No sky flats taken due to heavy clouds during twilight.
	  - Not photometric.  Light cirrus with clouds on the horizon.

	  - Some difficulties connecting LBC to the TCS. Required
            reboot of LBC cmu computer to clear.  Restart came back normal
            and were able to connect to the LBT/IIF w/o problems.

	  - /newdata/ directory not being seen (Stale NFS handle fault).  
            Got someone (Dave T?) to dismount/remount to clear fault.


UTC 03:23 - Run BinoBias OB
	  

UTC 03:35 - Pointing star

UTC 03:43 - Slewing to HCG62 for collimation.



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UVa_Walker  HCG62
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UTC 04:01 - Run UVaHCG62.ob.  Seeing ~1.1".  Breezy conditions.
            Seeing may have been a little variable.  All-sky camera
            shows some clearing, but not photometric.


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ND_Whim PG1206+459
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UTC 04:34 - Setup on PG1216+459 field.  Running dofpia, converged.

    04:40 - swung around in Az to check wind gusts, seems OK (sounded worse, but...)
    
    04:46 - starting OB.  Blue controller reported fault "FPGA not loaded (code 48) 
            controller error"   Restarting LBC cameras...  That failed with the 
            system frozen.  Olga rebooted the cmu at 4:59...

    05:03 - On reboot and restart, blue camera controller failed.  Trying power cycle
            in LBC gui... failed at 05:08 to init blue camera.  More full cycles tried

    05:20 - System finally came up.  Connecting to TCS OK.  Auto-rebooted after a 
            slight delay.  

    05:23 - running OB again, and executing dofpia to restore collimation...
            Wind declining some, now ~5m/s instead of 10-15 gusting to 20m/s
            Done w/o problems

    05:30 - OB pg1206xa started normally.  All-sky cam shows cirrus wafting by.
    05:54 - OB pg1206xa finished normally.  ~1.1" seeing or a bit better.  


    05:56 - Ran dofpia at pg1206xb position.  Blue controller again
            reported fault "FPGA not loaded (code 48) controller
            error".  Restarting LBC cameras again from within
            LBCcontrol GUI.
    
    06:04 - Cameras restarted; starting dofpia script.

    06:13 - OB pg1206xb started normally.


    06:25 - Closing down due to strong wind gusts.  OB pg1206xb
	      partially finished (first 500s exposures).


    09:25 - Continued high winds with little hope for change.  Calling
            it a night...