OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2010 Dec 07
(civil date Dec 06/07, 2010)
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Observer:
Paul Martini (OSU), David Atlee (OSU), Peter Garnavich (ND), Erica Hesselbach (ND)

Observing Assistant: Steve Allason
Support Astronomer : Dave Thompson
Instrumentation    : Tim Shih

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Instrument:
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Lucifer

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Summary:
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Very overcast at the start of the night. Ran some spectroscopic acquisitions to 
familiarize ourselves with procedures, although often couldn't even see the 
guide stars. 

Cleared enough by 3:30 that we started observing. Obtained data for 
OSU_mgiant: SDSS2,3,4,5,9,10 between times of really bad seeing and 
thicker patches of cirrus. 

Also tried OSU_M33star, although it set behind some clouds right when we 
started the integration and consequently no useful data were obtained. 

Obtained darks at the end of the night. 

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 OSU mgiant  
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  03:23  clear enough to try sdss2 (about 2h lost to weather) 
  03:24  started arc calibration script 
  03:31	 restarted arc calibration slit after fixing MASK code (finished 3:37)
  03:41  acquisition
  03:53  started script for sdss2, increased DIT to 300s, changed OFFSETS to -15 
         and +30 to avoid persistence (airmass = 1.35) 
  04:27  started spec flats - Note: 'halo1 36' turns off the lamp too quickly
         manually turned the lamp back on for the remaining flats
  04:38  started arc script
  04:42	 moving to telstd1 
  04:55  started telstd1 observation (airmass = 1.3) - star not on slit!!!
  05:00  new acquisition sequence 
  05:10  restarted observations of telstd1
  05:16  arc, flat
  05:31  moving to rvstd 
  05:34  pointing check
  05:35  restarted acquisition
  05:40  started observing script 
  05:51  arc, flat
  06:06  moving to sdss5
  06:16  sdss5 observing 
  06:24  arc, flat  
  06:41  acq for sdss3 
  06:45  seeing > 2.5", waiting a bit (15 min lost) 
  06:57  started sdss3 (seeing now about 2" , airmass = 1.3) 
  07:31  arc, flat 

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 OSU M33star
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  07:47  moving to M33star
  07:52  acquisition (some trouble matching to finding chart, changed to 
         acquisition images to K-band 
  08:13  started observations 
	 likely set behind clouds, no signal 


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 OSU mgiant  
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  08:25  sdss4 acquisition started 
  08:35  sdss4 science started
  08:47  aborted -- object not centered on slit and lost GS on offset (lost 15min)
  09:06  started sdss4 again (adjusted offsets to not lose GS, tried tweaking 
         star position in slit with little success) counts fairly low, probably 
         cloud cover thickening 
  09:28  arcs, flats
  09:45  slewing to sdss10 (lost a few min to remove bending forces in primary)
  10:00  sdss10 started, increased integration times due to clouds 
  10:55  arcs, flats 

  11:10  slewing to telstd4
  11:12	 AGW failure, need to reboot AGW computer (lost 20 min) 
  11:30  rerunning acq
  11:38  telstd4 started, then arcs and flats 
  12:00  slewing to sdss9 
  12:11  sdss9 started 
  12:16  restarted sdss9 (grating tilt error) 
  12:53  arcs, flats

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 Darks 
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  started dark script at end of night