LBT OSU/RC Observing Notes
Date: 2015 Dec 10 (UT)
Observers: Brown
Support: Dave Thompson (on call)
TelOps: David Gonzalez

Summary: Started off the night with thick clouds, did the MMS calibrations.
         Opened in time to get to ND_mls, observed in pseudomonocular mode
         (MODS1+LBCR). Switched over to LBC to try and get the rest of the
         OSU_monitor targets, but the LBCs were having problems. Housekeeping
         went down, but the other issues were mainly focus related and at least
         partially due to deteriorating conditions. Switched at the very last
         minute to try and observe a very recent supernova in a relatively
         nearby galaxy. Collimation was still difficult, ended up getting 
         1 spectrum that wasn't completely sky.


Completed science targets: ND_mls
                           OSU_monitor_N4236
                           OSU_monitor_N3077
                           OSU_monitor_I2574
                           OSU_monitor_N4605
                           OSU_ASASSN15tw
                           

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UT 00:00  Start of night
          Set up for MODS, but it's pretty cloudy. Might open later.

UT 01:45  M33c.cal

UT 02:40  mods.3.turner.cal
          Mask ID was not up to date in cal, acq, obs scripts

UT 03:20  Restarting mods3.turner.cal with correct mask ID

UT 04:30  Looking like it might clear up

UT 04:45  Some patchy clouds but we'll try it out

UT 05:05  Acquiring ND_mls 

UT 05:15  DOFPIA was having severe trouble. Aborted, backed out,
          David added corrections by hand, restarted, converged.

UT 05:33  mls.obs and mls_lbred.ob started  
          seeing ~0.7 arcsec, still patchy clouds

UT 06:30  Image quality still looks great. Keeping an eye on it
          in case DOFPIA needs to be done again

UT 07:00  Thin clouds on the all sky camera, but image quality
          seems good, seeing ~0.7 arcsec (< 3 pixel FWHM)

UT 07:20  Cloud cover is pretty sporadic. DIMM, GCS, and LBC
          seeing estimates are varying between 0.8 and and 1.2 arcsec 

UT 07:35  mls.obs finished. Cancelling the 100 remaining LBC exposures.
          Going to do a quick standard before switching to LBCs.

UT 07:45  g191b2b-dg.obs

UT 08:00  Switching to LBCs

UT 08:15  Acquiring OSU_monitor_N3344. DOFPIA failed 3 times.
          Low elevation may be causing problems. Moving elsewhere.

UT 08:28  Acquiring OSU_monitor_N2903. Least airmass at the moment.
          
UT 08:40  Still failed. Working with Dave to resolve.

UT 09:00  Need a field with brighter stars. Acquring N4236.
          DOFPIA eventually converged, though the last images
          don't look very promising. Eventually restarted IRAF
          in order to finish the copointing.  

UT 09:35  OSU_monitor_N4236.ob
          Seeing 1.5", variable

UT 09:51  Acquiring OSU_monitor_N3077. Clouds looking better.

UT 10:01  OSU_monitor_N3077.ob
          Seeing ~1.1"

UT 10:11  Acquiring OSU_monitor_I2574. Bright star near focus field 
          caused some issues, but DOFPIA eventually converged.

UT 10:20  OSU_monitor_I2574.ob
          Need to LBC kill, LBC restart (blue housekeeping dropped)

UT 10:38  Restarted OSU_monitor_I2574.ob
          Seeing ~1"

UT 10:52  Acquiring OSU_monitor_N4605

UT 11:00  OSU_monitor_N4605.ob
          Seeing ~0.9

UT 11:16 Acquiring OSU_monitor_2903. DOFPIA having trouble. Eventually
         converged, but problems with pointing/presets, issues with telescope. 

UT 11:42 Re-acquiring OSU_monitor_2903. The bright star is causing issues.
         Moving to higher priority target.

UT 11:52 Acquiring OSU_monitor_3344. DOFPIA still struggling, only finding
         1-2 pupils. Clearing active optics and trying elsewhere.

UT 12:00 Acquiring ND_sext, focus field has several bright stars. DOFPIA taking
         quite a while. Seeing might just be too poor. Talked with Dave, DOFPIA
         was behaving strange.

UT 12:43 Reconfiguring to MODS to observe very recent supernova

UT 13:15 This probably isn't going to work out. Difficulty collimating.
         Bright source on acquisition image. Took 2 exposures.