OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2011 November 24
(civil date 2011 Nov 23/24)
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Observers: K.Z. Stanek, R. Stoll (OSU)
Observing Assistant: David Gonzalez Huerta
Support Astronomer : Olga Kuhn
Instrumentation    : John Morris

Instrument:  LBC

Summary: Partly cloudy. Seeing fairly decent, ~1.0".

Details:

00:00  Took 25 biases

00:30 Started with BR flats. Some clouds on the sky, so flats might be
      dubious.

00:37 Still saturated (1-sec flats)

00:42 Not saturated anymore, running a 5xBR flat set.
    
00:44 50,000 counts in R, 30,000 counts in B in 1-sec.

00:47 Now a Vz 5xset (2-sec). 

00:51 Now a gi 5xset (4-sec). Saturated in i, good in g.

01:00 Another gi 5x set, doubled the g-band expousre (edited the OB).
      This is a good set. Should have done g-band 4x exposure time.

01:05 Another gi 5x set, g-band 4x exposure time.

01:10 Done with flats. There are clouds, so use flats with caution.

01:11 Moving to the first field to check the pointing; some clouds.

01:14 Doing the collimation. Failed, too much out of focus.

01:21 Doing collimation again. Failed, too much out of focus.

01:27 Collimation again, after TO did an offset. Is working now.

01:33 Doing pointing on the same field (NGC 6946 foxus).

01:37 Starting NGC 6946, exposure time x1.2 (clouds). Seeing about 1.5".
      FWHM about 5 pixels.

02:22 Went to M31 field, collimating. Seeing about 1.1". Thin clouds.
      0.8" seeing in some  images.

02:57 Moved to 2003 SB45. Will attempt non-sidereal tracking. Took a while
      to collimate etc.

03:10 Taking data for 2003 SB45. Seeing about 1.0". Very little trailing.

03:19 Moving to 2003 SY90. Collimation is slow (few stars). Seeing abot 1".
      Very little trailing, good seeing. Thse observations have collimation overhead
      of about 5-10 minutes/each.

03:40 Moved to the SN field, collimating. Running very short exposures (x0.1)
      as requested by the PI. Seeing about 0.8".

03:58 Went to comet Elenin. Collimating. Seeing about 1.1". We will do it again
      (there was a coordinate mixup). One needs to switch the guiding off.
      The PI should check the position.

04:30 Went to the next field (2003 WD111).

04:41 Going to 2003 UZ10. Seeing about 1.0".
      
04:54 Going to 1994 PN12. 

05:07 Going to NGC 628 (nothing else is up). Seeing about 1.2". Still
      some clouds, so using 1.3x exposure time factor.

06:03 Going to NGC 672 (still no good queue targets). Seeing about
      1.0".  Using scale x1.1 (still some clouds, but it might be
      getting better).

06:52 Going to 2002 RU61. Seeing about 1.0". There are still come clouds.
      
07:08 Going to 2001 OY60.

07:21 Going to 2002 UJ16. Still clouds. Seeing about 1.0".

07:34 Going to 1998 HP43. Seeing ~1.1". Still clouds.

07:46 Going to 2001 RT111. Seeing ~1.2". More cloudy. Doing it again.
      (we took a short break to check for the wind etc.)

08:07 Doing 2001 RT111 again. Still cloudy.

08:15 Moving to 2011 UO56. Applied 1.3x scaling for the exposure time.

08:28 Moving to 2002 TE13. Maybe a bit less cloudy. Seeing ~1.4".
      1.1x scaling applied.

08:41 Checking the wind speed (rotating the dome).

08:45 Mowing to NGC 2403. Too cloudy, shutting down. It is clearer now,
      but the AO is "searching for the maximum wind".

09:20 We are opening. Will try to do NGC 2403 again. Seeing about 1.2".

09:33 Started exposing on NGC2403, 1.1x scale exptimes. Seeing ~1.4".

09:46 Doing another one, hoping for a better seeing. Less cloudy now.
      Seeing ~1.5".

10:02 Going to NGC 2903. Left the field, it was getting windy

10:14 Going to M81. Seeing about 1.5".

10:36 Going to NGC 3077. Seeing seems better, ~1.0". However, OA
      decided to stop the exposure because he was "hearing wind".
      Half the sequence done.