OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2011 Jan 03
(civil date 2011 Jan 02/03 2012)
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Observers: BShappee & CWillmer
Observing Assistant: 
Support Astronomer : DThompson
Instrumentation    : 

Instrument: MODS / LBC

Summary: Mostly clear, moon first half cirrus end of second half

Projects observed: 
UM/v723cas
ND_COSLLS
LBTO_Fe
OSU_qso
OSU_monitor

Details:
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grpixflats_b.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grlamps_b.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grflats_b.cal

started biases but stopped because there was a significate temperature difference between the mirror and the outside, so we thought it would be better to hold of biases and open up.

colimated and pointed.  There seems to be a slight issue with the GCS (getting hung up) when the sky is bright, but it seems to be working fine now.

01:05:
still quite bright but lets sit on the std until the sky darkens.
acqMODS feige110.acq 

When we started to expose GCS died.  So we had to 
01:17:
acqMODS feige110.acq 

Another error with the shell.  

01:20:
acqMODS feige110.acq 

01:23:
execMODS -b bluegrating feige110.obs

01:35:
execMODS -b dualgrating feige110.obs
seeing ~0.8

01:46:
acqMODS v723cas.acq
change the acq script to a parallatic anglwe of 146
seeing <0.6
ran 2 sets of 3 at this PA

02:26:
acqMODS v723cas.acq

03:06
acqMODS v723cas.acq
seeing 0.4-0.6

03:33:
execMODS J0256p08.obs

03:48:
acqMODS j0330HA0.5.acq
execMODS j0330.obs

04:20:
acqMODS gd71.acq
execMODS -b bluegrating gd71.obs
something is wrong with the spectra, so we are redoing acq...
red side not reading out.  Called Dave, told "red fitsflush" in gui commmand line

Re-did slit alignment as always, and it did NOT WORK.  Something is wrong but we will move on because this is wasting time!  Some how modsAlign put the star outside the slit twice.  Dave

04:50:
acqMODS j0810+5424HA-2.5.acq
execMODS j0810+5424.obs

05:35:
acqMODS ND_COSLLS/j0810+3508HA-2.5.acq
execMODS ND_COSLLS/j0810+3508.obs
seeing ~0.7-0.9

06:10:
acqMODS ND_COSLLS/j0804HA-2.5.acq
execMODS ND_COSLLS/j0804.obs
seeing ~0.6

06:45:
execMODS LBTO_Fe/J0911p29.obs
seeing ~0.7

execMODS LBTO_Fe/J0932p50.obs

execMODS LBTO_Fe/J0936p53.obs

execMODS LBTO_Fe/J0947p47.obs

07:50
acqMODS j1005HA-2.5.acq
seeing ~0.7

08:36:
acqMODS hiltner600.acq
changed exposure time to 10 seconds to avoid error we ran into before...
pointing nailed it so we did not get to test the longer exposure.
execMODS -b dualgrating hiltner600.obs
seeing ~0.7

09:20:
switch over complete

we will observe the gz observations of the qso project while the seeing is good and when we have no/little moon.  We will get the ri later
OSU_qso_1057-gz1

had to go to co-pointing star nearby

seeing quite good ~0.55-0.7

***Light cirrus (we only saw after the sun came up)***

10:17:
OSU_qso_1057-gz2
seeing 0.4-0.6

~11:00:
OSU_qso_1057-gz3
seeing ~0.5-0.7

We then decided to move on and save the ri exposure for tomorrow when there might be some moon, and go onto the gz exposures of the next qso.

11:40:
OSU_qso_1305-gz1
sky background in the z band is significantly high... So we cut the sequence short and moved on to another target to not waste this good seeing...

12:12:
OSU_monitor/N4258c
collimation script keeps alternating, after the 7th time we stopped it (and backed out "dofpia, /backout"), co-pointed and then started the observations.  The co-pointing image showed that the seeing was good and the psf in the red did not look horrible.  If we waste any more time we will be pushing twilight too hard and the data will not be useful anyway.

seeing ~0.55-0.7

After the sequence ended we just started it again.  It is already in 12 degree twilight so we will keep exposing until the sky background increases and we will start taking sky flats.

13:21:
Sky increasing, switching to flats
***Light cirrus (we only saw after the sun came up)***

g  z  flats (last g saturated)

V R flats

Uspec r Flats  (looks r saturated half way through, but Uspec is ok... I don;t know how to only do Uspec.)



calibrations:

LBC 25 bias

execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/bias8K.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grpixflats.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grlamps.cal
execMODS /home/OSURC/OBs/MODScalib/Calib/grflats.cal