Observing log for UT 2011/02/08

Observers: Jeff Blackburne (OSU), Jill Gerke (OSU)

Observing Assistent: Steve Allason
Support Astronomer: Olga Kuhn
Instrumentation: Tim Shih

Instrument: Lucifer

Conditions: Photometric. Winds of 10 m/s at sunset, rising to 20 and
above by the end of the night.

Seeing: Variable, 1'' to 2''. Best seeing was during the UVa_BCD
program.

Programs:
OSU_M33star -- completed, although it was during twilight.

UM_UM_AZ_Bechtold -- completed.

UVa_BCD -- completed.

OSU_m82spec -- completed part of the eastern section, but interrupted
by high winds. See detailed notes.


Detailed Notes:

12:26 Opened the dome early, for narrowband flats. Wind is around 10
m/s, and no clouds are visible.

01:01 Sunset

01:22 Finished with sky flats in BrGamma, H2, H and K.

Pointing correction

01:35 Acquiring science target for program OSU_M33star.
02:00 Starting science exposures.
02:11 Acquiring telluric.
02:20 Exposing telluric.
02:24 After one exposure, a telescope offset failed, causing the
script to quit. Reacquiring telluric.
02:31 Restarting telluric spectral exposure.

02:38 Aquiring science target for program UM_UM_AZ_Bechtold
Preset failed. Did a pointing correction.
02:45 Reaquiring. The N3.75 camera was found to be misaligned during
this process, so we reseated it (and initialized the ICGUI) and it
fixed itself. See image number 120 for an example.
03:08 Starting the science script.
04:10 Reaquiring. We note that the script does not end up pointing to
the same place where it started.
04:24 Starting the science script.
05:23 Aquiring telluric
05:31 Exposing telluric

05:36 Unwrapping instrument rotator.

05:39 Aquiring object J1025+1402 for program UVa_BCD.
05:50 Starting science script.

06:39 Aquiring object J1047+0739 for program UVa_BCD.
06:50 Starting science script.

07:40 Pointing correction.

07:43 Acquiring telluric for program UVa_BCD.
07:49 Starting science script.

07:55 Acquiring telluric star #1 for program OSU_m82spec.
08:06 Starting spectral observation -- the grating tilt worked the
first time.
08:10 Acquiring velocity standard
08:20 Starting spectral observation -- grating worked again.
08:25 Acquiring science target
08:34 Starting science script -- the grating tilt worked again.

09:47 Closed because of high wind, after completing 13 of the 23
elements of the script.

10:19 After slewing the telescope to the position of M82 and setting
the rotator angle appropriately, we ran the arc and flat calib scripts
for program OSU_m82spec.

Ran spectroscopic flat script for program OSU_m33star.

Ran arc and flat scripts for UM_UM_AZ_Bechtold.

Ran arc and flat scripts for UVa_BCD.

Ran dark scripts.