LBT OSU/RC Observing Notes
Date: 2015 Oct 11
Observers-- Fausnaugh, Adams

Summary: Opened to relatively clear skies, light cirrus layer, haze/clouds
along horizon.  Conditions were stable through the night, with gradually worse
cirrus clouds in the second half.  Seeing was 1.0" to 0.8"

There were 2 techical issues that cost some time.  First a TCS failure at UT
4:08, approximately 1.25 hours to resolve.  Second, we were unable to
reconfigure for LBC at the end of the night (UT 8:51, ~0.25 hour before going
back to MODS).

Completed science targets: OSU_SBqsos4civ/q02059, OSU_SBqsos4civ/q2259,
			   OSU_M33/M33a, M33e
			   OSU_IC10LS
			   OSU_ASASSNpy (into 18 degree twlight)

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UT 01:05 - Opened to thin layer of cirrus, thick clouds on the
   	   horizon.

UT 01:31 - acquiring a standard: BD284211
	   seeing 1.0"
UT 01:52 - starting obs script
		we ran modsAlign thrice.  The offsets looked reasonable but it would not center the target in the slit.  Ended up doing manual offsets.
	imcslock was not working.  Problem was that we forgot to run MODSwake.
UT 01:58 - ok, starting obs script again and now things are working.  We
should still be able to aquire the first science target by the end of
twilight.

UT 02:09 - acquiring OSU_SBqsos4civ/q02059
	   observing.
	   seeing 1.1".  Sky transparency seems to be improving.  Looks great
overhead, but still a little murky near the horizon.

UT 02:45 - acquiring OSU_SBqsos4civ/q2259
	   seeing 1.0"
UT 02:56 - starting obs script

UT 03:20 - acquiring OSU_M33/M33a
	   seeing 1.0"
UT 03:32 - starting obs
	   we are starting at higher airmass (1.6) but the seeing is
sub-arcsec nonetheless
	   seeing 0.8"
UT 04:08 - TCS problem.  Reading out partial exposures
(mods1r.20151011.0028.fits and mods1b.20150111.0011.fits) ~3 min early and pausing the obs
script.  Down time.
UT 05:12 - collimating
UT 05:20 - TCS problem again.  Down time...
UT 05:24 - reaquiring OSU_M33/M33a
UT 05:35 - starting obs script    -> the telescope issue resulted in the loss
of 90 min of observing time
	   seeing 1.0"

UT 07:03 - acquiring OSU_IC10/
	   seeing 0.9", there is still a little bit of haze.
	   starting obs script

UT 8:15 -  Warming up LBCs, will reconfigure at end of observation.

UT 8:45 -  Reconfiguring for LBC.
UT 8:51 -  System delay in moving the swing arms.

UT 8:59 -  Issue will take some time, going back to MODS

UT 9:00 - acquiring OSU_M33e
UT 9:05 - Some more telescope issues delaying the preset
UT 9:26 - observing OSU_M33e
	  Seeing ~ 0.9" (GCS GUI)

UT 11:40- acquiring OSU_ASASSN15py
UT 11:43- observing OSU_ASASSN15py
	  Seeing ~ 0.8" (GCS GUI)
UT 11:54- 18 degree twilight--pushing forward with more exposures
          Finshed just at 12 degree twilight

UT 12:29- acquring g191b2b
UT 12:35- observing g191b2b
UT 12:43- sky is significantly brighter than 18 degree twilight