OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2011 Jan 01
(civil date 2011 Dec 31/Jan 01 2012)
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Observers: BShappee & CWillmer
Observing Assistant: 
Support Astronomer : DThompson
Instrumentation    : 

Instrument: MODS 

Summary: Mostly clear, moon first half 

Projects observed: 
ND_COSLLS
ND_DLAe
OSU_MD_FeII
OSU_LSNeSpec
OSU_LSNeIm


Details:

./doBias
(Revised later in the night:  Some of the biases got cut off because an instrument error we encountered later in the night.)

~00:40 
colimate and pointing star

01:01:
acqMODS feige110.acq (did not actually get taken)
but sky still a little too bright for the guide star so we will wait a bit

01:12:
Had a couple issues with the guider at first. Other issues with MODS

02:05:
MODS up again, we are now going to skip the 

02:07:
acqMODS ND_COSLLS/j2344HA2.5.acq
seeing <0.9 so we don't need to double the exposure time.

execMODS ND_COSLLS/j2344.obs

02:43:
acqMODS ND_COSLLS/j2255HA3.5.acq
seeing 0.8-1.0 so not doubling exposure time on first two exposures.
On third exposure seeing softened to ~1.1 so we will give one additional exposure

03:40:
acqMODS ND_DLAe/j0112a.acq
execMODS ND_DLAe/j0112a.obs
seeing 0.6-0.9

04:16:
acqMODS ND_DLAe/j0112b.acq
execMODS ND_DLAe/j0112b.obs
seeing ~0.65-0.8

04:51:
acqMODS ND_DLAe/j0112c.acq
execMODS ND_DLAe/j0112c.obs
seeing ~0.6-1.0

~05:25
acqMODS hiltner600.obs
execMODS hiltner600.obs
forgot to run -b dualgrating so stopped after dual done and then 
execMODS -b bluegrating hiltner600.obs

~05:50ish
acqMODS ND_COSLLS/j0744HA-2.5.acq
We changed the acquire script to acquire in the blue like the other Chris script, since he is only exposing the blue channel.
Seeing first exposure: 1.0-1.1 
Seeing second exposure ~ 0.9-1.0
We are giving a third exposure because of the poor seeing.

06:40
acqMODS ND_COSLLS/j0800HA-1.5.acq
We changed the acquire script to acquire in the blue like the other Chris script, since he is only exposing the blue channel.
Seeing first exposure: 0.8-0.9 
Seeing second exposure 0.8-0.9 

07:13:
acqMODS ND_COSLLS/j0950HA-2.5.acq
We changed the acquire script to acquire in the blue like the other Chris script, since he is only exposing the blue channel.
Seeing ~0.8-1.0

08:03:
acqMODS OSU_MD_FeII_mkn142.acq
seeing ~0.8 so we will stick with the 0.6" slit requested
seeing ~0.6

08:43:
acqMODS OSU_MD_FeII_sdss1045p4418.acq
seeing ~0.7 so we will stick with 0.6" slit
last exposure seeing ~1.0

09:42:
acqMODS feige34.acq
execMODS -b dualgrating feige34.obs
execMODS -b bluegrating feige34.obs

10:15:
acqMODS PTF10heh-UT10.acq
acqMODS PTF10heh_B.obs
exposures 1-3 seeing 1.0-1.2
exposures 4-5 seeing 0.9-1.1

12:15:
execMODS SN2009jh.img
seeing ~0.9-1.2  seeing really degraded, hopefully the data is useful
slightly pushed into astronomical twilight
guide probe is in the field, and there is a gradient from a nearby bright star, but neither affect the field center as specified by the finding chart so we will continue. 

~13:00
acqMODS OSUASASSN/SN2011fe-UT13.acq
execMODS OSUASASSN/SN2011fe.obs
seeing ~0.9-1.1
last exposure well into twillight,

Lets try one more for the fun of it
13:25:
acqMODS SN2011dh-UT13.acq
execMODS SN2011dh.obs
stopped after first exposure because sky so bright

We decided it was best to run/re-run some of the cals, because there is some uncertainty with what exactly has already been run (and disk space is cheap).

execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/bias3K.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/bias8K.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grpixflats_r.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grpixflats_b.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grpixflats.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grlamps_r.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grlamps_b.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grlamps.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grflats_r.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grflats_b.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grflats.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/imflats.cal