Observers: Gerke, Croxall, Grammer
Telescope Operator: Steve Allanson
Support Astronomer: Olga Kuhn
Instrument: MODS1, then LBC

Observing log for 02-14-2013

Clear skies, a few light clouds on horizon, low humidity.  


Play-by-play:
02:20 - 
Mirror collimation complete. seeing ~1.3"
Acquiring OSU_Mrk590, running execMODS. seeing ~1.5" toward end of ob

03:05
Acquiring standard star gd71. running execMODS. seeing ~1.0"
03:45 red images not showing up in modsdisp, red fitsflush didn't work, 
checking to see if they are on the MODS computer, we're good. moving on. 

03:46 
Acquiring OSU_RV_hotstar3. confirmatory image saturated, shorter image still 
saturated. looks off center, redoing acq with shorter exptimes. 
04:05 new acq looks good, starting execMODS.  seeing ~1.1

04:24
Acquiring OSU_SN2012fh, execMODS, seeing ~1.3
05:57  seeing still ~1.3
06:22 shell rip, still tracking, paused exposures
06:26 telescope collimated again, resumed exposure. seeing ~1.0
07:00 seeing ~1.0

07:37
Acquiring standard star feige66, running execMODS. seeing ~1.1

07:56 Done with MODs observing, moving to LBC

****Switching to LBC****

08:17 moving to focus with LBC

08:27 at target. Some trouble focusing, adding manual shifts. There are temperature 
gradients on the mirrors due to outside temperature changes.
08:40 focused, doing rangebal

08:44 Moving to OSU_monitor_N2403, focusing
08:49 starting OSU_monitor_N2403 ob.  seeing ~0.8

09:00 Moving to AZ_SUPER_UNB_1, focusing
09:07 tried for rangebal, but no star
09:13 added manual shift, taking exposure to check image quality. 
09:17 starting AZ_SUPER_UNB_1 ob. seeing ~0.9

09:46 dofpia
09:52 checking focus, giving some manual focus shifts
09:55 starting AZ_SUPER_UNB_2 ob. seeing ~0.9 in blue, ~0.7 red

10:25 dofpia
10:30 starting AZ_SUPER_gi_1.ob
10:40 starting AZ_SUPER_gi_2.ob.  seeing ~0.7

10:51 starting AZ_SUPER_ry_1.ob.  seeing ~0.6-7
11:00  starting AZ_SUPER_ry_2.ob.  seeing ~0.7

11:10 Moving to OSU_monitor_M101 to focus
11:15 rangebal
11:19 starting OSU_monitor_M101 ob.  seeing ~0.7
11:35 adding manual focus offset during image set 2 b/c stars elongated
11:44 images look better, seeing ~0.7

11:49 Moving to OSU_monitor_N4258 to focus
12:00 rangebal
12:03 starting OSU_monitor_N4258 ob.  seeing ~0.8

13:15 taking sky flats
gi-set of 10, some with lower counts
13:24 starting ry flats, set of 5
13:32 starting VR flats, set of 5
13:38 starting Uspec and NF972, set of 10, some with counts too high

taking 25 biases and 3 darks