LBT OSU/RC Partner OBserving Notes Date: 2015 April 19 UTC Observers: OSURC Support Astronomer: Barry Rothberg (on-call) Telescope Operator: Steve Allanson SUMMARY: MODS all night. Night started out clear with seeing ~1. Seeing improved in the first quarter of night to ~0.8", but deteriorated to ~1.5" toward the middle of the night. Second half saw better seeing at ~1. Programs completed are: ND sbs1122b ND sbs1122a OSU_M101_LS1 OSU_M101_4 OSU_US1558 Observing Notes: (All times are UTC unless otherwise noted) 01:06 UM_M101_2 cals 01:26 UM_M101_5 cals 01:44 Longslit cals for red grating only - grlamps_r.cal - grpixflats_r.cal (slitflats_r.cal for later) 02:00 Opening up telescope Pointing and collimating 02:38 Feige34 acq 02:44 Feige34 obs (dual grating, red grating, dual prism) seeing 1.1 clear sky 03:16 ND sbs1122b acq seeing 0.95 03:28 ND sbs1122b obs seeing 1 clear sky 04:17 seeing 1 clear sky 04:35 ND sbs1122a acq 04:44 ND sbs1122a obs seeing 0.84 clear sky 05:51 OSU_M101_LS1 acq seeing 0.8 clear sky 06:03 OSU_M101_LS1 obs 06:49 Stopped 3rd exposure to re-align (snr not too good) 06:58 One last exposure on OSU_M101_LS1 Seeing 1.2 Clear sky 07:07 Problem with instconfig timing out - had to abort and re-issue obs Seeing jumped to 1.6 07:29 OSU_M101_4 acq Seeing 1.4 Clear sky 07:40 OSU_M101_4 obs 08:16 Seeing 1.54 Clear sky 09:10 OSU_US1558 acq Seeing 0.97 09:24 OSU_US1558 obs Seeing 1.3 Clear sky 10:07 Seeing 1 Clear sky 11:00 Seeing 1 11:32 bd332642 acq 11:38 bd332642 obs (dual prism, dual grating) 11:58 Closing up telescope 12:08 Cals: slitflats_r.cal, M101_4.cal, USS1558.cal 12:42 Putting mods to sleep