Observers:  Shappee, Terndrup, Humphreys, Davidson
Telescope Operator: Steve Allanson
Support Astronomer: Dave Thompson
Instrument: LUCI

Observation log for 07-08 January 2013

Projects Completed:

Projects Not Completed:
OSU_UCDz
OSU_2011fe

Summary:
We started with LUCI which had problems so we had to switch to MODS.  We were then shut down for weather most of the night.   At 10:30 UT we reopened with LUCI hoping the issue would not come back.  It did. We switched back to MODS and obtained extra exposures on targets because there were no unobserved MODS projects that were doable at the end of the night with cirrus and bad seeing.  

Play by play:

~23:30:
LUCI darks
    DARK =    o2dcr    4 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr    5 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr    6 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr    7 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr    8 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr   10 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr   12 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr   15 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr   20 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr   25 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr   30 1 5
    DARK =    o2dcr   60 1 5
    DARK =      mer  120 1 5
    DARK =      mer  300 1 5
    [END_OBSERVING_SETUP]

OSU_UCDz

HIP5671.acq
HIP5671_
HIP5671.acq


01:42:
executeLUCIScript.sh SD004113.acq

executeLUCIScript.sh SD004113_HK.spec

I went through to acquire but due to observer error it was not aligned properly.  Redid acq. properly.  Once we realized the issue.

02:05:
executeLUCIScript.sh SD004113_HK.spec

02:14:
executeLUCIScript.sh SD004113_zJ.spec
seeing ~1.0”

###############  LUCI PROBLEM with temp of shield raising above critical ############

switching to MODS

02:45
acqMODS SDSSJ005527.acq
****cirrus****

02:53:
execMODS SDSSJ005527.obs
seeing 1.3”

seeing variable

03:05:
seeing 1.6”

seeing variable

***** cirrus  *****

04:22:
acqMODS g191b2b.acq

04:28:
execMODS g191b2b.obs

####    CLOSED FOR Threatening clouds   ####

10:31:
###    REOPEN   #####
Going to give LUCI a try again because there are no targets for MODS that are observable or have no already been observed.

There are clouds on the horizon, but only light cirrus overhead.  Lets try to steal the last 2 hours of the night.  

11:00:
executeLUCIScript.sh SL131014A.acq
seeing ~1.4”

Why is there an A and B for this target, and not just a single slit.  

11:07:
executeLUCIScript.sh SL131014A_zJ.spec

11:22:
executeLUCIScript.sh SL131014A_HK.spec

11:36:
executeLUCIScript.sh HIP62745.acq

11:42:
executeLUCIScript.sh HIP62745_HK.spec

11:44:
executeLUCIScript.sh HIP62745_zJ.spec

#######  LUCI trouble again... very frustrating  ##########

Note from Terndrup:  We consider LUCI unusable and will abandon it for the remainder of the block.

Switching back to MODS

Nothing else to observe with MODS at this time with cirrus and poor seeing so we will obtain additional observations of SN2011fe.

12:06:
acqMODS OSU_SN2011fe_UT10C.acq

~12:14:
execMODS OSU_SN2011fe.obs

~13:05:
acqMODS feige34.acq

~13:10:
execMODS feige34.obs