LBT OSU/RC Partner OBserving Notes
Date: 2015 January 23 UTC (Night 6 of 9)
Observers: Paul Martini, Suk Sien Tie (OSU), Jake Turner (UVa) 
Support Astronomer: Olga Kuhn (remote) 
Telescope Operator: Steve Allanson

SUMMARY:
Mirror temperature at start about 9 deg above outside (ventilation was 
off during the day due to vibration work by AO team). 
Did LUCI darks while waiting for the humidity to drop and the mirror to cool. 
Transparency was good, while seeing ranged from 1" to 3" or more. 
Completed LUCI observations of SN2014J. Seeing was pretty bad for two of the 
three scripts, so we ran those twice. Switched to MODS at 11:30, and then 
took more spectra of SN2014J due to poor conditions for most of last night's
data. These were also compromised somewhat by poor seeing (1.5-2). 

Observing Notes: 

All times are UTC unless otherwise noted

00:00	running flush_detector on LUCI, then integrated darks 
	integrated: o2dcr  4 10 5
	normal: o2dcr 6.25 1 5, mer 120 1 5, mer 300 1 5, mer   600 1 5

02:55	humidity finally dropped enough to open

03:15	collimating, seeing is 3-4" on DIMM and GCS. Outside air: -11C, 
	mirror is -6C. Mirror temp has dropped 5.5C in about 4.5 hours, but 
	outside air temp has also fallen.

04:10	Seeing still 2-3", but trying a telluric 

04:24 	Starting telluric observation, seeing improved to 1.5" 
	Outside air temp up to -10C, differential is about 3C. 
	Did zj, hk, y2

04:45	Moving to M82 with offset.acq, diff at 2C 

05:03	Starting sn14j_hk.spec, T=-9.6, seeing 1.3", skies clear 
	SN not obvious in difference images

05:40	Acquisition for y2, seeing about 2" 
	Tried direct aquisition, but seeing deteriorated
	Switch to S1 offset script 

06:07	Observation for y2, seeing still 2"
	SN not obvious in difference images

06:45	Ambient temp now -7.4C, warmer than mirror, seeing ~1.5"   
	
07:24   Acquistion of zj , seeing 1.3"
	GS not reaquired (again), so checking pointing with nearby star

07:45	Obs of Sn zj seeing 1.2", dropped to 0.9-1" 
	weather: clear
 	SN spectrum obvious 

08:30	Acq of Tell standard zj 

08:46   Obs of Tell Sandard zj
        Seeing 0.98
        Weather: clear

08:52  	Obs of Tell Standard hk
        Seeing: 0.7 
        Clear 

08:59   Obs of Tell Standard y2 
	Seeing: 1
	Clear 

09:05  	Back to hk for the SN 
	Acq of hk
	Seeing 0.99, clear 

09:22 	Obs of hk SN
	Seeing 0.85" 
	Clear 

10:04 	Obs of SN y2, seeing getting worse
      	Seeing 1.7

11:23	Done with Luci, now to MODS

11:24	Pointing and Collimating for MODS 

11:45	SN2014J Mods acq 

11:56	SN2014J obs (3 expsoures)
       seeing: 2 -- guide star is very faint and diffuse
       Weather: clear 

13:36 Feige 34 acq 

13:43   Feige 34 obs 
	seeing: 1.2 
	weather: clear but sky is bright
        second image lost guiding 
	aborted before third image set 

13:55   shutdown MODS