Date: 2017 Nov 16 UT
Observers: Jon Brown, Patrick Vallely 
TO: David Gonzalez
SA: Dave T

Moon phase: 

Summary: Some clouds at start, should clear up later on.

Minor technical issues: 

Completed Programs: 
  ND_carbon/jy1118
  ND_carbon/jy2040
  OSU_SNIaHosts/GALAXASCJ021558
  UM_NGC2403/NGC2403_f1
  UVa_BCD_MODS/J0820

Calibrations: 

LBC: 

MODS:
  UM_NGC2403/ngc2403_f1.cal
  UM_NGC2403/ngc2403_f2.cal

LUCI

Standard star: 
  Feige 110
  G191-b2b


Details (All times UT):
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00:00 - Handover

01:20 - Still a little bright, starting with standard Feige 110.
        Clouds are a little patchy, but not too bad at the moment.

01:30 - Moving to ND_carbon/jy1118. Conditions are going to be a
        little iffy for the first half of the night.
02:00 - Some thin clouds moving in.
03:00 - Clouds getting a little thick around us, but ok overhead.
03:10 - Transparency deteriorating pretty rapidly.
        The last 1-2 exposures are likely (significantly) affected.

03:30 - Conditions are pretty poor, we'll stick with bright lower
        priority targets.

03:40 - Started ND_carbon/jy2040.obs
04:20 - First 3 exposures ended up being under good conditions, but
        thick clouds moved in on the last one, guiding was in and out.
        We're doing a few more exposures, since conditions aren't 
        good enough to do much else. 
        
04:30 - The next hour or so is going to be pretty iffy, but should
        be clear afterwords.

05:45 - Trying to acquire on OSU_SNIaHosts/GALEXASCJ021558 but clouds
        are causing some issues.

06:00 - Going to start science observations, but there are intermittent
        thick clouds.
06:30 - The thick clouds seem to have cleared; still some thin cirrus.  

07:10 - Moving to a standard in advance of the UM_NGC2403 observing window.
07:15 - g191b2b.obs

07:30 - Moving to UM_NGC2403
07:45 - Starting UM_NGC2403_f1.obs
10:00 - Conditions clear and steady throughout obs execution.

10:05 - Moving to OSU_SNIaHosts/SDSSJ103529
        Conditions are not bad; some thin clouds visible away from zenith.
10:15 - Starting SDSSJ103529.obs
        Conditions are starting to deteriorate. Faint trace (maybe) visible.
        Target too faint/diffuse for these conditions.

11:30 - Moving to UVa_BCD_MODS/J0820
        Conditions have improved. Exposure times were determined for binocular
        MODS; since we're only using MODS1 we're execute the obs twice. 
11:40 - Started J0820.obs
        There is actually an issue with the obs script prepared with the OT. 
        The exec block contains the observing commands twice; it worked out 
        in this case since we planned on running the exec block twice, but 
        if we were also running MODS2, the script would have run longer than 
        intended (or we would have to manually stop it). We don't have the xml
        file on hand to check what might have caused this.

12:50 - Ending with the MOS calibrations