OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2011 June 4 (civil date 2011 June 3/4) ============================================================================== Observer: Paul Martini (OSU), Joe Antognini (OSU), George Privon (UVa) Observing Assistant: David Gonzalez Support Astronomer : Olga Kuhn Instrumentation : =========== Instrument: =========== LUCI ========= Summary: ========= ========= Details: ========= 01:35 Conditions fairly clear, wind okay, plan to take sky flats Took some dark frames with LUCI 01:50 Right shutter door not opening 02:10 Starting H2, BrG twilight flats Also got H, K flats, but too late for J 02:30 Sunset ========= A1689 ========= 03:22 Starting A1689-3 Telluric 03:29 Slewing to A1689-3 Science Field 04:00 Twilight ends 04:17 Starting A1689-3 Science Obs Had to adjust PA,x,y by hand a few times to center objects 06:30 Started spec flats for A1689-3 (approx 5 min) 06:36 Slewing to A1689-3 Std (little slow as cal tower was in for slew) 06:48 Starting A1689-3 Std 06:56 Starting spec flats for A1689-3 Std 07:01 Slewing to A1689-3 telluric 07:09 Starting A1689-3 telluric 07:15 Starting spec flats for A1689-3 telluric ========= GalCen ========= 07:20 Reconfiguring 07:25 Checking the wind 07:26 Slewing to GC2 07:51 Giving up on GC2, align star coordinates seem incorrect, trying GC3 08:09 Starting GC3 [18 min alignment!] 09:06 GC3 specflats and arcs ========= GalCen ========= ========= UVa_H2IMG ======== 09:15 Slew to NGC 6240, begin UVa_H2IMG_N6240_BrGam.obs. Seeing 1" 10:44 Finished NGC 6240 BrGamma. Seeing ~1.5" ========= UM_458VulImg ========= 10:45 Slew to start, begin UM_458VulImg_V458Vul.J.obs 11:00 J-band target ~54k counts 11:02 Begin UM_458VulImg_V458Vul.H.obs 11:04 In H-band, target ~52k counts. Reducing DIT to 30s, restarting. 11:08 Target still has high counts (nonlinear or saturated). Aborting. ======== UVa_H2IMG ======== 11:09 Started UVa_H2IMG_Standard_BrGram.obs 11:18 Finished standard observation. 11:25 Running dark frames (dark20110604.txt) 10:30 Twilight begins 12:00 Sunrise