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

Summary

Some cirrus at sunset, but clear behind.  Wind ~10m/s so vent doors
may need to be closed at first.

LBC program tonight.

Seeing was below 0.8 arcsec FWHM all night, as low as 0.5 arcsec,
despite winds as high as 15m/sec.  Skies were dark, and while we suspect 
was some thin cirrus, it was very nice transparency.  Made excellent progress 
on a number of high-priority imaging programs that benefitted from the excellent
seeing.  Both LBCs were well-behaved - no problems after the start.

Only issue was at startup.  Mirrors were well-equilibrated thermally
with very flat gradients. LBC-blue converged rapidly, but LBC-red
thrashed.  We had to dial in +2000nm of Z8 (Y Coma) to get it into
the sweetspot where DOFPIA was able to take over.  Noted that at
times red was slower to converge than blue usually.

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 LBC

Before start, took two sets of biases.  First is no good.

02:30 - Opened telescope, some thin cirrus about but thinning fast.
        winds reasonably calm

      - collimation failed in red, but worked fine in blue.
        after AO by eye (adding +2000nm of Z8 aka YComa) red collimation
        converged and we can proceed.  Mirrors were close to 
        equilibrium, so LBC-R's problems were not obviously mirror thermal.

03:30 - OSU_monitor NGC2903.  Seeing ~0.8-0.9 arcsec.  Bkgd 3500 in blue, 10K in red.
        collimation & co-pointing w/o problems.

04:11 - NGC 2903 done, going to NGC 3627
        DOFPIA ran successfully

04:35 - needed to restart IRAF, then collimated 
        OSU_monitor NGC 3627 started
        seeing ~0.6-0.7 arcsec

05:15 - Finished NGC 3627, move to NGC 4258
        collimated w/o problems

05:32 - starting OSU_monitor NGC 4258, seeing 0.6-0.7 arcsec
        
06:09 - starting OSU_monitor NGC 4449

06:35 - finished, seeing 0.6-0.7 arcsec

06:36 - starting OSU_monitor NGC 4736 - seeing 0.6-0.8 arcsec

07:00 - finshed NGC 4736
        
07:02 - OSU_monitor NGC 5194 - seeing 0.5 - 0.6 aresec 

07:09 - starting NGC 5194

07:50 - finished NGC 5194, going to UVA_Wise Wise 1703

08:03 - UVa_WISE_LMIR_im WISE1703 started.  seeing ~0.6 - 0.7 arcsec during
        observations

08:28 - finished Wise 1703, moving to ND_LLSimaging J1419

08:43 - ND_LLSimaging J1419 started, seeing ~0.7 arcsec  

09:05 - finished J1419, seeing still 0.7-0.8 arcsec

09:06 - handoff to PEPSI team