OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2011 June 9 (civil date 2011 June 8/9) ============================================================================== Observer: Paul Martini (OSU), Joe Antognini (OSU), George Privon (UVa) Observing Assistant: Steven Allanson Support Astronomer : Marco Pedani Instrumentation : =========== Instrument: =========== LBC ========= Summary: ========= We had high winds at the beginning of the night, but they calmed down around the end of twilight. We spent most of the night observing a number of OSU_Monitor targets. In the middle of the night we attempted to observe two targets for OSU_cc, but the seeing became progressively worse, eventually rising above the program's requirements, so we abandoned the second target. ========= Details: ========= 02:15 Conditions clear, some smoke/haze from fires. Winds 20-25 m/s. Began taking darks. 02:30 Sunset 04:05 Twilight ends 04:45 Opening up (wind has decreased below limit) ==== OSU_mon ==== 04:59 Slewing to NGC4258 05:05 lbcrangebal on ACT0352 05:15 Running dofpia on NGC4258 focus field. 05:24 Too few pupils for dofpia. Slewing to NGC4736 focus field. 05:25 Running dofpia on NGC4736 focus field. 05:45 running NGC4736 OB. Seeing ~1.5" 06:03 Slewing to NGC4258 focus field, running dofpia. 06:12 Starting NGC4258 OB. Seeing ~1.5" in blue, 1" in red. 06:42 Rotator glitch on blue channel for image lbcb.20110609.063629.fits 06:49 Finished NGC4258 06:50 Slewing to NGC4236 focus field. Running dofpia. 06:54 Starting NGC4236 OB. Seeing ~1.5" 07:06 Slewing to NGC5194 focus field. Running dofpia. 07:11 Starting OB with 0.15 exp scale time. 07:15 Trying 0.05 scaling 07:20 Trying 0.01 scaling -- 2s in R-BESSEL! 07:25 Running again with 0.01 scaling. 07:31 Slewing to NGC4605 focus. Running dofpia. 07:42 CCD controller error. Lost communication with red camera. 07:58 Recovered LBC blue and red. Running dofpia on NGC4605 focus field. 08:04 Running NGC4605 OB. Seeing ~1.1" ==== OSU_cc ==== 08:21 Slewing to OSU_cc_RXJ1336p54 08:24 Running dofpia. 08:29 Dofpia finished, running OB for OSU_cc_RXJ1336p54 08:50 Slewing to OSU_cc_RXJ1530p13. Unwrapping the azimuth, so this is a long slew. 08:56 Running dofpia 09:01 Running OB for OSU_cc_RXJ1530p13. 09:12 Seeing is pretty terrible (> 1.5"), so we're aborting this OB. ==== OSU_monitor ==== 09:12 Slewing to M101. 09:14 Running dofpia 09:19 Running OB OSUmonitorM101 09:49 Slewing to NGC 6946 09:51 Running dofpia 09:58 Running OB OSUmonitorN6946 10:31 Twilight begins. 11:13 Checking for twilight flats. 11:22 Taking flats. 12:01 Sunrise