OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2012 Apr 28 (civil date 2012 Apr 27/28) ====================================== Observers: P. Martini, S. Adams Telescope Operator: G. Bechetti Support Astronomer: O. Kuhn Instrument: LBC Summary: Photometric through most of the night, thin cirrus towards the end Seeing improved from 1.5" -> 0.6" by the end of the night Observed 7 targets from OSU_moniter, UM_LBTB-Timeswap, and 2 targets from OSU_qso Evening twilight flats in gr Afternoon - bias frames UT0218 starting twilights saturated UT0228 twilights okay now UT0245 telescope pointing UT0300 lbcrangebal didn't work on first attempt, running dofpia with manual correction UT0318 some mount and preset issues, running dofpia again UT0330 Starting NGC2403, 1.5" blue, 1.2" red UT0340 Starting M81, 1.1" seeing UT0357 Slewing to NGC3627 UT0408 Starting NGC3627 UT0449 Slewing to NGC4258 UT0457 Starting NGC4258, 0.9" seeing UT0535 Slewing to NGC4395 UT0542 Starting NGC4395, 1.3" red, 1.0" blue UT0555 Slewing to NGC4449 for OSU_monitor UT0601 Starting NGC4449 UT0615 Slewing to NGC5194 UT0622 Starting NGC5194, 0.7" seeing UT0700 Slewing back(!) to NGC4449 for UM_LBTL timeswap UT0705 Starting NGC4449B_gr1.ob, 0.8" seeing UT0759 doing azimuth unwrap and rangebal UT0809 collimating UT0815 Starting QSO1220-gz2, seeing 0.7" z-band images have a dark stripe across them UT0854 recollimating UT0856 continuing to observe QSO1220-gz3 UT0934 Slewing to OSU_qso_cfht UT0941 Starting OSU_qso_cfht-gz, seeing 0.7" LBC blue didn't take any exposures -> script error (blue turned off) LBC red stalled on readout of last image of the OB UT1008 Starting OSU_qso_cfht-ri, seeing 0.6" UT1025 Slewing to NGC6946 UT1033 Starting NGC6946 UT1115 Finished observing -- twilight has begun. Some thin cirrus came in toward the end of the night.