Observers: Paul Martini, Scott Adams, Roberta Humphreys
Telescope Operator: Geno Bechetti
Support Astronomer: Michelle Edwards
Instrument: MODS1

Observing Log for 2013 May 2/3

Summary:
Clear night, everything went smoothly.  Observed a spectrophotometric standard during evening twilight.  Finished the UVa_n2460 program, UM_M101stars/M101F1, OSU_ORLs, and OSU_SN2012ei.  During morning twilight we observed another 2 spectrophotometric standards.

Details:

UT 22:30
taking new set of calibrations for NGC5055_f[1-3].cal since the set taken yesterday did not have all of the header information
Discovered that the dome was still open for the first 6 images, then the script stopped because of a CALMODE timeout.
Restarting calibration set (with the dome closed!)

UT 0144
dome well ventilated, so additional MOS calibrations: UM_M101F1, UM_F101F3

UT 0208
slewing to horizon and opening up
outside temp at 5.6

UT 0240
seeing 1.3"
acqMODS feige67.acq 

UT 0247
execMODS feige67_dualgrat.obs 

UT 0300
seeing 1.6"
acqMODS ic2209.acq 

UT 0316
execMODS ic2209.obs 

UT 0330
acqMODS n2460_sf.acq (edited to only take a field image)

UT 0335
seeing 1.4"
execMODS n2460_sf.obs 

UT 0413
seeing 1.7"
acqMODS ic2574_UT4h30.acq 
did OSS restart immediately prior to taking confirmatory through-slit image -- guide star stayed in place during this

UT 0426
seeing 1.5"
execMODS ic2574.obs
seeing improved to 1.0"
the mods1b failed to start the last exposure (only took 5 of 6 blue images)

UT 0635
restarted LSS
seeing 1.5"
acqMODS M101F1.acq 
had to restart GCS to get the acquisition scipt to run properly

UT 0708
seeing 1.1"
execMODS M101F1.obs 
	gave this one extra exposure due to the seeing being worse than requested

UT 0900
seeing 1.0"
acqMODS SN2012ei.acq

UT 0930
seeing 1.1"
execMODS SN2012ei.obs - did 4 exposures (+3 yesterday)
	only observed a total of 7 of 8 requested exposures, but still are declaring it done as it seems to have sufficient S/N

UT 1100
acqMODS bd332642.acq

UT 1105
seeing 0.9"
execMODS bd332642_dualgrat.obs 

UT 1120
acqMODS wolf1346.acq 

UT 1130
execMODS wolf1346_dualgrat.obs 

UT 1155
Started morning calibrations:
execMODS bias8K.cal
execMODS bias3K.cal
execMODS imflats_r.cal
execMODS qso1145m1.cal
execMODS qso1145m2.cal
execMODS qso1145m3.cal