Observers: R. Pogge (OSU), E. Huff (OSU), E. Skillman (UMN)
Support Astronomer: M. Edwards (from Tucson)
Telescope Operator: David Gonzalez 

Summary

Clearer (some cirrus) but some wind. Promising start.
Turns out seeing was very bad, starting around 3 arcsec.

Started with a poor-seeing program to try to ride otu the
initial poor seeing.  Started with Feige 34 standard star.
Continued with OSU_SN2014J, which was doable in poor seeing, but aborted
by a primary mirror panic (active optics having problems in poor seeing).
Then we went to OSU_AGN14/NGC4051 and executed that program.  Seeing improved
dramatically from >2 arcsec to nearly subarcsec.  We aborted part way
through and moved to the high-priority ND CSS1024 target.

The seeing improved sufficiently that we could attempt ND_css1024 with LBC and MODs.
LBC never collimated, so we aborted the LBC component and executed the
MODS observing.

Next we observed WISE1703 for the UVa_WISE_LMIR_sp program - ran successfully
in subarcsec seeing - could detect the faint target galaxy and continuum.
Modified the script to do 3x1200s instead of 6x600s to save on readout time
since target was so faint.

We finished with long slit spectra of the Ring Nebula which will be used for 
calibrating the wavelength solutions and dispersion corrections in the blue 
channel (more diffuse UV emission lines than from our wavelength lamps). 

As per time allocation, we handed off the telescope to the PEPSI team
(J. Storm and I. Ilyn) for PFU commissioning at 2am.  Will be
coordinating this thru Sunday (PEPSI folks leave Monday).


Details: All times are UTC unless otherwise indicated

Configured for MODS1 and LBC-R

02:30 - Open, starting MODS1 pointing and M1/M2 collimation (David)
        First target will be ND_css1204 MODS1 spectra with "pure-parallel" LBC-R 
        Michelle Edwards will be assisting from the Tucson Remote Observing
        Room.

03:10 - Seeing around 2 arcsec, not good.
        Going to calibration star Feige34
       
03:16 - Starting dual grating and blue grating - seeing 2+ arcsec.
                
03:44 - Moving to SN2014J
        seeing still ~2 arc sec
        
03:54 - David is resetting active optics, delaying start of observing
        Seeing 2-3 arcsec (but clear!).  

04:00 - Starting SN2014J.obs.  Seeing 2-3 arcsec

04:14 - left primary mirror panic.  Aborted script 
        recovering

04:36 - finished last of three spectra after recovery
        
04:37 - move telescope to NGC 4051
        reset pointing on telescope
        seeing improving to about 1.5 arc sec

04:51 - start executing NGC 4051
        seeing at start of observation is ~1.4

05:13 - aborted 4th exposure for NGC 4051 in order
        to set up for next program.  Seeing has improved to 
        ~ 0.9 arc sec

05:15 - setting up on ND_CSS1024
        acquiring with LBC on right mirror
        de-authorize MODS
        authorize LBC
        convergence not being reached on collimation of LBC red
        doFPIA is failing
        coma was too large for the software to measure and comppensate.
  
05:37   Giving up on LBC, letting Michelle try to diagnose it.
        Going back to authorize MODS and proceeding with target acquisition 

05:38   starting mods acquistion with blue MODS camera
        
05:48   starting the integration
        approximate seeing 1 arc sec
        aborted to adjust centering in the slit

05:51   re-starting
        still approximate 1 arc sec seeing

07:14   Program ND_CSS1024 done

07:16   move to UVA_WISE  spectroscopic
        WISE_1703
        long slew

07:33 - modified script to 3x1200s from 6x600s - object is very faint in
        SDSS r acq image of 120s and 6x600s just wastes readout overhead.
        Target is barely visible in slit.  Seeing about 0.8 arcsec at the
        start, 1-arcsec at end of first 1200s.

08:39 - WISE_1703 is done

08:40 - Moving to ngc 6720 (planetary nebula for calibration purposes)

08:46 - started integration of 60 secs
        dual grating mode, 0.6 arc sec slit
        seeing ~ 1.0 arcsec

08:50 - 3 x 300 sec integrations.  Seeing blew up spectacularly, >3" (off
        scale) during the last exposure

09:05 - done