LBT OSU/RC Partner OBserving Notes
Date: 2014 November 20 UTC (Night 1 of 8)
Observers: Ben Shappee, Rick Pogge (OSU)
Support Astronomer: Olga Kuhn
Telescope Operator: Steve Allenson

SUMMARY:

LBC night.  Forecast good once daytime high clouds passed us by at
sunset.  We worked all night from dusk until dawn.  Seeing was mostly
around 0.8-1 arcsec, with occasional excursions to 0.6 or as high as
1.2.  Images were round for most images, and FPIA convergence was
reasonably fast.  We had three instances of needing to restart the TEC
chip computers: twice for Red, once for Blue, that lost less than 30
minutes total.

Programs Observed:

   OSU_monitor - many targets (OSU P1 and P2 LBC)
   UVa_WISE_VLBA - completed 4 targets of 6 (UVa P1 LBC)
   ND_oldsn - completed 
   ND_edgeon - completed: ran NGC891 and the photometric calibration fields
   Calibs: B+R, g+r, and Us+I flats + end biases

This complete all LBC programs for ND, 2/3 of the UVa, and first shot
at OSU LBC programs reachable this run.


Observing Notes:

All times are UTC unless otherwise noted

00:00 - Startup, clouds from the day passing, wind is calm, outside temperature
        2C  Vent doors open, so biases at end of the night.
        Some LBC startup hiccups with the Red CCD computer solved during
        sunset.


01:20 - OSU_monitor, NGC6946.  Blue 0.6" Red 0.7" arcsec.  Still a little
        twilight, so running N6946rot.ob, then will go to science OB.  Others
        we'll do the other way (science then rot).
01:50 - NGC6946 Science OB, re-doing focus first (no copoint) as we're
        still settling for the evening.  Science start at 01:53
        First images have 0.8" seeing


02:30 - UVa_WISE_VLBA, WISE_2331.  Focus & co-point OB
02:41 - Running science OB.  Seeing ~1" Blue, 0.7" Red, round images.


02:57 - OSU_monitor, NGC672 focus and co-point OB
03:05 - NGC672 Science OB started.  Seeing ~1.1" blue, 1" red, round images
03:41 - Executing N672rot.ob.  Noting that the red tec chip images are
        sub-bias signal (15ADU) garbage, the others are OK.  Logs show it
        started at 03:34.  Images are round but a little in the cores.
        This is for calibration so we're OK.


04:01 - Fired next OB after restarting Red TEC chip computer, getting
        real images. Off to next target

04:05 - OSU_monitor, NGC925 focus and co-point OB.  
04:14 - Executing NGC925 science OB.


04:38 - OSU_monitor, NGC628 focus and co-point OB
04:49 - Executing NGC628 science OB - seeing about 0.8 arcsec
05:26 - Executing N628rot OB


05:41 - ND_oldsn, focus and co-point OB - seeing 0.7 arcsec
05:50 - Executing Science OB for ND_oldsn - seeing 0.7 arcsec 
        SN easily visible in the blue images.  Satellite crossed
        detector on Image 2 (missed the SN)


06:19 - ND_edgeon, NGC871 focus and co-point OB - seeing ~1 arcsec
06:31 - Executing NGC891 Science OB - seeing 0.8-0.9 arcsec Seeing a
        little variable towards the end, slightly worse in blue than
        red at the end.


07:06 - UVa_WISE_VLBA, WISE_0404 focus and co-point OB.  Blue was 
        further out of focus.  
07:21 - Executing WISE_0404 Science OB - seeing ~1 arcsec


07:37 - UVa_WISE_VLBA, WISE_0342 focus and co-point OB. Seeing ~0.8
07:48 - Executing WISE_0342 science OB - seeing ~0.8


08:04 - ND_edgeon, SA98_UsBVI Calibration Field - focus only
08:12 - Executing science calibration OB - 


08:19 - UVa_WISE_VLBA, WISE_0739 focus and co-pointing OB.  
08:26 - Executing WISE_0739 science OB - seeing ~1"
        
        Found Blue TEC cut out at 07:51, since most images were very
        short the last few, the images are still round.

08:43 - Restarting Blue TEC computer...

08:47 - OSU_monitor, NGC2403 focus and co-pointing
08:55 - Executing NGC2403 Science OB - seeing ~0.7-0.8


09:07 - OSU_monitor, NGC2903 focus and co-pointing
09:12 - Executing NGC2903 Science OB - seeing ~1" in red, 1.1+ in blue


09:54 - OSU_monitor, IC2574 focus and co-pointing
10:00 - Executing IC2574 Science OB - seeing ~1" red, 1.1+ in blue


10:12 - OSU_monitor, M81 focus only - short move, fast convergence
10:15 - Executing M81 Science OB - 0.8-0.9" seeing


10:28 - OSU_monitor, M82 focus only (another short move)
10:33 - Executing M82 Science OB - 0.8-0.9" seeing


10:44 - OSU_monitor, NGC3344 focus and co-pointing
10:55 - Executing NCG3344 Science OB - 0.9-1" seeing
11:05 - LBC Red went offline - only the first one finished, two blue
        Different problem - TEC offline, not just reading low-ADU junk.
        Logs report an FPGA load error (see IT#2397)

11:10 - Re-executing the NGC3344 focus script
11:13 - Re-executing the NGC3344 science script - 0.8-1" seeing (red/blue)

11:44 - OSU_Monitor, NGC3077 focus and co-pointing
11:54 - Executing NGC3077 Science Script - 0.7-0.8" seeing (red/blue)


12:04 - OSU_Monitor, NGC4258 focus and co-pointing
12:12 - Executing NGC4258 Science Script - 0.7-0.8" seeing (red/blue)
12:49 - Executing N4258rot.ob for short calibrations
13:00 - getting bright as the last OB goes well into twilight


13:06 - Sky Flats
         B+R PA=0/180
         g+r PA=180
        Us+I PA=180

13:3 - Biases (25Bias_Bino.ob) with lights out