LBT OSU/RC Partner OBserving Notes
Date: 2015 January 18 UTC (Night 1 of 9)
Observers: Paul Martini, Suk Sien Tie (OSU), Jake Turner (UVa) 
Support Astronomer: Barry Rothberg
Telescope Operator: David Gonzalez-Huerta

SUMMARY:

Clear at start, although some clouds to north and south. 
Completed OSU_z6q 2_4096, UM_Vshift ID745 and ID740, OSU_MClusters M6A and M6B
Did about half of UVa_XO2b, but had to abort due to a medical issue.  

Observing Notes: 

All times are UTC unless otherwise noted

01:20 - Pointing check

01:40 - OSU_z6q 2_4096 acquisition

01:50 - OSU_z6q 2_4096
	STATUS: IMCSLOCK Blue IMCS locked-on, Red Pending BlueIMCS=LockedOn RedIMCS=Pend** ERROR: IMCSLOCK RedIMCS=Fail BlueIMCS=LockedOn
	Hit Retry, worked okay

02:40 - PhotCal G191B2B acquisition
	dual grating only 
	seeing about 0.9-1

03:05 - UM_Vshift ID745 acquisition 

03:16 - starting observation, skies still look clear
 	seeing increased to about 1.2, so adding another 600s exposure  
 	no lines visible in coadd of 4 observations 

04:09 - UM_Vshift ID740 acquisition 
	seeing 0.9 

04:18 -	starting observation 
	seeing degraded to 1.2, added another 600s exposure 
	no lines visible 

05:11	OSU_MClusters M6A acquisition 

05:27	starting observation, DIMM at 0.75!  
	lots of nice spectra 

05:50 	OSU_MClusters M6B acquisition

06:02	starting observation, DIMM at 0.85

06:25	UVa_XO2b acquisition 

06:42	Starting pre_obs
	Need to unwrap AZ, so will reacquire

07:10	Started observations 
	At start: 'NextFile' on Red read 'data' and not an actual filename -- 
 	it did write the correct filename and subsequent files are fine
	Seeing btw 0.8-1 
 	Some cirrus 

08:37	Aborted sequence -- we had a medical emergency on the mountain (a
        staff member became very ill and needed to be transported to
        the hospital), so we had to shutdown the telescope while the
        mountain staff took care of the emergency.

09:07	Started calibrations
	UVa_XO2b.cal

09:36	Changed cal to 2x2 binning to match .obs file
	Decreased exposure times to account for very wide slits
	Frames are still mostly saturated 

10:01	Started grpixflats-b2.cal (2x2 bin version of grpixflats.cal) 
	Another set with exptime decreased by 4
	Instead decreased lamp settings, worked better, took 10 total
	Bias 8K 2x2 bin 
 
11:11	More calibrations, normal binning: 
	bias8K.cal
	grpixflats.cal
	grlamps.cal