OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2011 Dec 31
(civil date 2011 Dec 30/31)
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Observers: BShappee, CWillmer & ERyan
Observing Assistant: 
Support Astronomer : DThompson
Instrumentation    : 

Instrument: MODS first half,  LBC second half

Summary: Mostly photometric and decent seeing

Object/field completed: 
AZ_cl0218/cl0218_mask2 completed.
OSU_LSNeIm/PTF10vqv first half.
ND_WHIM finished.
OSU_qso/1145 completed.

Details:

LBC: 25 Biases taken in blue and red

MODS: 
execMODS grpixflats.cal
execMODS grpixflats_r.cal
./doBias

01:00:
Moved to nearby standard Feige110 to collimate, it took ~7 min to collimate.
seeing looks oretty good for this early (~0.9")
Still twilight but will run the standard to burn time.

01:39:
acqMODS AZ_cl0218/cl0218_mask2.acq 
seeing ~0.8

01:50:
execMODS AZ_cl0218/cl0218_mask2.obs
seeing ~0.8

03:05:
AZ_cl0218/cl0218_mask2.acq 
acqMODS css_nova.acq
execMODS css_nova.obs
There was a timeout error:
	>> PARTNER OSURC
	** ERROR: Command 'PARTNER OSURC' timed out after 60 seconds
	** Abort, Retry or Ignore? > Retry

	** css_nova.obs aborted with errors at line 3 command 'PARTNER OSURC'
Checked the script, everything looked ok and re-ran and then it worked fine... 

[**NOTE ADDED 2011 DEC 31 RWP - problem identified as an unintended "feature"
of the script engines in that it wanted R at the Abort/Retry/Ignore prompt, 
not the whole word "retry".  I guess the observers are less lazy than the
programmers! A patched version fixes this, it only looks at the first letter, 
so if you type R, Reply, r, reply, roger, roothogordie, it will just see 
"r" and attempt a retry.]


seeing ~0.7"

03:38:
AZ_cl0218/cl0218_mask2.acq 
execMODS css_nova.obs
seeing ~0.5-0.6"

04:03:
acqMODS g191b2b.acq

04:11:
had trouble finding the .obs, it was not located in the same place as the .acq script (/home/OSURC/MODS/StdStars)... wasted about 3 min
execMODS -b dualgrating g191b2b.obs
execMODS -b redgrating g191b2b.obs

04:32:
execMODS OSU_LSNeIm/PTF10vqv.img
seeing g~0.7 z~0.6  however seeing degraded to ~1.0 as the field set
sky ~21.16 (according to the sky brightness monitor)
We did 5 of 9 exposures before aborting, air mass getting a bit high and there are available LBC tagets.  We will finish tomorrow.

05:54:
Switching over to LBC

06:08:
sent OB to nearby star to collimate and co-point

06:26:
ND_WHIM/SA98
red side had some trouble converging and took a bunch of iterations to colimate

06:40:
ND_WHIM/SA101
Saw this is the eaxact same coordinents as ND_WHIM/SA98, so we did not run the script. 

06:45:
OSUmonitor/N4203c
seeing red~0.7  blue~0.75

07:05:
OSUmonitor/M81c
seeing red~0.75 blue~1.0

07:30
OSUmonitor/I2574
seeing ~1.15

07:47
ND_WHIM/pg1148a
highish airmass but there is nothing else to observe right now.  And the seeing is still better then the requested limit.  Conditions look pretty photometric right now, and at least for the next ~ hour.

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There was no focus field for this object!!!  Colimation would noty converge after 10 iterations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  PLEASE MAKE FOCUS SCRIPTS AS RECOMMENDED!!!!!!! Wasted 20 min.
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08:07
Moved to nearby star  ACT0374 to hopefully get better stars for collimation.  It took 4 cycles to converge on this nearby field.  

08:15:
Went back to ND_WHIM/pg1148a
seeing blue~1.0-1.1 red~1.0-1.2

08:36:
ND_WHIM/pg1206phot
seeing blue~1.1 red~1.2

08:51:
OSUmonitor/N3344
seeing red~0.75-1.0 blue~1.0

09:36:
OSU_qso1145-gz1
checked to make sure that there are stars on the engineering chips
in the begining 
seeing red~0.75  blue~0.9

OSU_qso1145-gz2
seeing red~0.6-0.7 blue~0.75-0.9

OSU_qso1145-gz3
seeing red~0.6-0.9 blue~0.8-1.0

OSU_qso1145-ri
seeing red~0.8-0.9 blue~0.9-1.0

there was an error on the red side, where the script stopped after the 6th exposure.  Tried to shut down and restart but LBC would still not behave.  Dave then had to LBC kill/start.  
I recollimated and restarted the script.  Total down time 18 min.  

The problem pushed us into twilight, but N4258 needed time series data.  So I will take data pushing a decent into twilight and hope it is useful, but not make the observation off.  I also skipped co-pointing to try and save a couple min.  And collimation took a while, so this is really pushing it...  Had to stop before the end.

OSU_N4258free
seeing red~0.8 blue~0.9-1.0

13:25:
Moving onto skyflats...
r I...  good good

V R be careful with last R.