OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2011 June 6
(civil date 2011 June 5/6)
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Observer:
Paul Martini (OSU), Joe Antognini (OSU), George Privon (UVa) 

Observing Assistant: David Gonzalez
Support Astronomer : Marco
Instrumentation    : 

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Instrument:
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LUCI

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 Summary:
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The first part of the night was clear with seeing ~1" or better. We completed two MOS
masks (A1689 and GC2). Towards the end of the 2nd MOS target, clouds began
moving in. We attempted two projects in these conditions but were unable to
acquire targets or get useful data. We closed ~30 mins early.


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 Details: 
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02:09	Conditions mostly clear. Haze from fires. Winds ~5m/s. Plan to take 
	sky flats.
02:20	Starting H2.
02:23	BrG flats.
02:29	H2 low intensity flats. (~2k counts)
02:31	BrG low intensity flats.(~2k counts)
02:31 	Sunset
02:35	K-band flats. (~13k counts)
02:41	H-band flats. (~14-20k counts)
02:42	Low intensity K-band flats. (~5k counts)
02:46	J-band flats (~12k counts)
02:48	Low intensity H-band and J-band flats.

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 A1689
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03:06	Slewing to A1689-4 telluric.
03:12	Telluric observation. 1.2" seeing.
03:19	Lamp flats.
03:23	Slewing to A1689.
03:25	Starting acquisition
03:48	A1689_hkspec4 started. 0.7" seeing on the guider.
04:00	Twilight ends.
04:15	Discovered issue w/ dithering offsets in hkspec4. Corrected and
	resumed the obs script.
04:58	~0.9" seeing on the guider.
05:55	Finished MOS observations. Running specflat4.obs
05:58	Slewing to hktell4_post and acquiring.
06:10	Observing hktell4_post.
06:18	specflat4 at the location of hktell4_post.
06:21	Running hkstd4_post.acq
06:22	Checking pointing.
06:24	Re-running hkstd4_post.acq
06:37	Standard star observations (hkstd4_post.obs). 1" seeing.
06:45	Specflat4.obs at the location of the standard star.

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UVa_Thuan
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06:50	J1423 acquisition script. ~0.8" seeing
07:03	Started J1423.obs script. ~0.8" seeing.
07:16	After 2 exposures, no object visible in data. Offsets incorrect?
	Aborting script.

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 GalCen
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07:30	Slewing to GC2
07:54	Running GC2, some thin clouds starting to appear 
08:51   Taking flats, arcs, more cirrus


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UVa_H2IMG
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09:01	Slewing to NGC6240 while instrument config changes.
09:03	Begin N6240_H2 observing. 0.8" seeing. Some cirrus.
09:16	Losing guide star due to clouds. Aborting.

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UM_458VulSpec
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09:17	Acquiring HIP 88508
09:22	Moving to HIP 98428
09:32	Acquired target. Variable seeing, up to 2", variable clouds.
09:33	running HIP98428.K.obs
09:36	Running V458Vul.acq.
09:55	Acquisition difficulties, manually moving target into slit.
10:00	Lost guide star. Too cloudy, closing up.

10:30 	Twilight begins

12:00   Sunrise