OSU/RC Queue Observing UTC 2012 Apr 29
(civil date 2012 Apr 28/29)
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Observers: P. Martini, S. Adams
Telescope Operator: G. Bechetti
Support Astronomer: O. Kuhn

Instrument: MODS

Summary:

  Clear with seeing 0.8-1.2" all night
  Evening spectroscopic flats with the 1" slit/dual grating for UM_ToO
  Observed UM_ToO, pc1057m1, pc1057m2, NGC5194_1, OSU_Bootes_prism, and 
    spectrophotometric standards
  
UT0200

  Starting twilight flats with 1" slit (sun not yet set) 

UT0241 
 
  F34 spectrophotometric standard, dual grating and dual prism 
  execMODS -b DualGrating feige34.obs	(took 13 min) 
  execMODS -b DualPrism feige34.obs	(took 7 min) 
  Seeing is <1" 

UT0303

  Moving to UM_ToO for acquisition 

UT0320
  
  Starting UM_ToO exposures 
  4363 is clearly detected in the raw frames
  Guider reports 0.8" 

UT0412

  Setup on PC1057
  Try Rick's experimental acquisition script: 
  acqMODS_mos pc1057m2.acq
  
>> RED CAMFOCUS STEP 250
** ERROR: RED CAMFOCUS Didn't understand CAMFOCUS STEP 250 ?
** Abort, Retry, or Ignore? > 

UT0417

  acqMODS pc1057m2.acq
    AGWFILT ND1.0	<- GWFS star too bright, inserted by hand
  modsAlign pc1057m2.mms mods1r.20120429.0023.fits mods1r.20120429.0024.fits
  stars in boxes before alignment! (not centered, though) 

   MODS Offset Command:
      offsetpointing -0.1623  0.353 -0.914 detxy rel

UT0432
  execMODS pc1057m2.obs

UT0540
  acqMODS pc1057m1.acq

UT0600
  execMODS pc1057m1.obs, seeing 1.1"

UT0708
  acqMODS NGC5194_1.acq
  note: one of the alignment stars saturates

UT0721
  execMODS NGC5194_1.obs

UT0934
  acqMODS OSU_Bootes_prism.acq

UT0946
  execMODS OSU_Bootes_prism.obs, seeing 1.1"
  only took 3/5 exposures -- plan on rest tomorrow 

UT1125
  acqMODS bd332642.acq

UT1132
  execMODS bd332642.obs