OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2011 Sept 26
(civil date 2011 Sept 25/26)
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Observers: R. Pogge, R. Stoll, S. Chung (OSU)
Observing Assistant: Gino ...
Support Astronomer : Olga Kuhn
Instrumentation    : 

Instrument: MODS

Summary:

Telescope closed during first few hours of night due to clouds.

Details:

04:30 -- Begin preset to first pointing star   


04:45 -- Begin acquisition on UM RMHstarsIRC_10420


04:51 -- Another acquisition with 1 sec exposure b/c target star is so bright 
it completely saturated 
	 Position on slit marked manually.  


04:55 -- Begin UM RMHstarsIRC_10420 obs, 0.8 arcsec slit, blue grating only.  
	 Seeing is ~0.9 arcsec in g-filter, blue channel.  


05:04 -- Begin acquisition on OSU_sdssqsos_sdss2102    

         Weird problem with IRAF during modsAlign.  When hit "a" to find 
centroid of target, IRAF quit.  We ran modsAlign again and hit "x" to manually 
determine the center of the target.


05:17 -- Begin OSU_sdssqsos_sdss2102 obs, 0.6 arcsec slit in red.  
	 Seeing is 0.7 arcsec in red.  


05:50 -- Guide star lost due to stars.  Pressed pause on the exposure, but the 
image read out after ~550 sec.  


05:57 -- Begin another exposure, 1300 sec on qsos_sdss2102

         Spectrum looks fine, similar to initial image prior to losing guide 
star.
 

06:22 -- Begin another 1300 sec exposure on qsos_sdss2102

	 06:31 -  Band of clouds starting to move in.  Guide star getting 
fainter.  
	 06:39 - Clouds getting heavier, significant drop in signal of guide 
star (factor of 3), during the last ~200-300 sec of the exposure.  Guide star 
lost at the very end of exposure.  Telescope closed due to clouds.



09:39 -- Telescope opened. Pointing and collimating.  Image severly aberrated. 
 WFS taking a long time to converge -- ~25 min to converge. 


10:06 -- Begin acquisition on UM_RMHstarsM33_HyperFW 


10:15 -- Begin UM_RMHstarsM33_HyperFw obs, 0.6 arcsec slit, dual grating.  
	 Seeing is 0.5 arcsec in red.


10:26 -- Begin acquisition on OSU-sdssqsos_sdss0254 


10:37 -- Begin OSU-sdssqsos_sdss0254 obs, 0.6 arcsec slit in blue.  
	 Seeing is <0.6 arcsec in blue. 


11:07 -- Begin acquisition on OSU_sdssqsos_gd50, 0.6 arcsec slit in blue.  

11:14 -- Begin OSU_sdssqsos_gd50 obs.  Seeing is <0.6 arcsec in blue.

11:29 -- Begin preset to stone-e field and collimate

11:32 -- Begin stone-e field obs, 60 sec exp.  Seeing is 0.5 arcsec in red.

11:34 -- Begin stone-e field obs, 30 sec exp 

11:37 -- Series of images on stone-e field, in g and r filters, stepping in 
focus.

12:08 -- Execute calibration meta script which includes grating flats and imaging flats and bias frames.