Observers: Scott Adams, Paul Martini Telescope Operator: Steve Allanson Support Astronomer: Dave Thompson Instrument: MODS Summary: Scattered clouds at opening that cleared up a few hours later. 0.7-1.5" seeing. Started with MODS and observed ND_grb. Attempted to observe qso1145m3, but the secondary mirror ripped multiple times, in spite of high elevation, so we gave up on MODS and switched to LBC. Observed N4258, UVa_SUPER/GON_UNB_[1-2]_UVA, N5194, and M101. Details: UT0040 Starting evening calibrations: execMODS /home/modseng/modsScripts/Support/modsWake.pro execMODS slitflats_May13.cal execMODS grlamps.cal execMODS bias8K.cal UT0255 seeing 0.7" acMODS feige34.acq UT0304 execMODS feige34_dualgratprism.obs UT0322 acqMODS grb_pa-60.acq UT0337 seeing 0.8" execMODS grb.obs UT0537 Redoing qso1145m3 as previous observations did not meet S/N requirement acqMODS qso1145m3.acq execMODS qso1145m3.cal -> oops, accidentally started cal instead of obs script. Now we have to re-acquire acqMODS qso1145m3.acq UT0611 seeing 1.0" execMODS qso1145m3.obs UT0620 adaptive secondary failed -- pausing exposure while recovering The troubleshooting steps require re-pointing the telescope Aborted script UT0644 problem with secondary should be fixed, re-acquiring target acqMODS qso1145m3.acq nope, the problem persists... UT0650 Giving up and switching to LBC UT0708 Slewing to pointing star WT10_352 Trying: dofpia, /First UT0718 lbcrangebal UT0723 Slewing to OSU_monitor_N4258focus, running dofpia UT0730 seeing 1.1" running N4258 UT0810 starting UVa_SUPER GOODS_copoint -- this doesn't have any bright stars in it going instead to a pointing star: WT10_385 lbcrangebal UT0821 dofpia UT0829 running GON_UNB_1_UVA UT0858 dofpia - failed to converge after 5 iterations, but it looked good enough, so we stopped it there UT0905 running GON_UNB_2_UVA UT0937 slewing to N4449, running dofpia dofpia ended with the following: DOFPIA finished % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow clearing Zernike corrections on the left mirror (forces too high) and redoing dofpia, First UT0954 too late to do N4449, slewing to N5194, running dofpia UT0958 DIMM seeing 1.7" dofpia estimated seeing: red 1.0", blue 1.1" running N5194 UT1037 slewing to M101, running dofpia UT1048 running M101 DIMM seeing 1.4" UT1119 Into morning twilight... Closing up for the night Morning calibrations: MODS: execMODS prbias.cal execMODS prlamps.cal execMODS prflats.cal LBC: 25Bias_Bino 3Darks_Bino_UVA.ob