Date: 2018 Feb 9 UT Observers: Danielle Berg, Malinda Baer TO: Steve Allanson SA: Barry Rothberg Moon phase: 3rd quarter Summary: Good weather, good seeing for most of the night, everything went smoothly. We made an effort to operate all the instruments while Barry was on site. Minor Technical Issues: MODS2 Red unavailable; all MODS2 observations are Blue only LUCI1 not available Completed Programs: ND_gd77-61 ASASSN18bt UVa_wise0943 UVa_wise1046 UVa_J1032 OSU_N4826 OSU_N4395 OSU_N4258 OSU_N4736 OSU_N5194 OSU_M101 OSU_N4236 Standard Stars: g191b2b gd71 feige34 hd92573 Details (All times UT): ----------------------------------- 00:00 - Handover. Weather looks good, should be clear and not very windy all night. 01:30 - Switching to standard star g191b2b, seeing at 0.6-0.7 01:40 - Starting g191b2b.obs, dual grating for MODS1, blue grating for MODS2 01:55 - Switching to standard star gd71. We're planning to switch to LUCI and LBC later, so we're getting the standards done early. 02:05 - Starting gd71.obs, dual grating for MODS1, blue grating for MODS2 02:30 - Switching to ND_gd77-61, seeing at or below 0.7 02:45 - Starting ND_gd77-61, seeing still roughly 0.7 03:25 - Switching to ASASSN18bt, running UT04.acq. Seeing at 1.1 03:40 - Slight delay due to difficulties with the finder charts and locating the target. 03:50 - Starting ASASSN18bt, seeing at 1.0 04:30 - Switching to standard star feige34, seeing at 0.8 04:35 - Starting feige34.obs, dual grating for MODS1, blue grating for MODS2, seeing at 1.1 04:45 - Preparing to switch to LUCI 04:55 - Manually took one extra exposure of feige34 on MODS2 after slight communication error with the GUI 05:00 - Switching over to LUCI to train observers while SA is available 05:05 - Slight delay to edit scripts; UVa_wise0943 only provided script for fraternal twin observing, which will not run properly without LUCI1 05:15 - Started UVa_wise0943, seeing around 1.0 05:30 - Seeing down to 0.7 05:50 - Starting UVa_wise1046, seeing at 1.0 06:05 - Seeing at 0.8-0.85 06:25 - Starting telluric star hd92573, seeing about 1.1 06:30 - Guide star was a double, had to select a new one 06:35 - Starting for real this time, seeing around 0.7 06:45 - Seeing down to 0.6 06:55 - Switching UVa_J1032, as this was closest to our telluric. Seeing at 0.6 07:10 - Starting UVa_J1032, seeing at 0.65 07:45 - Seeing down to 0.4 07:50 - Finished UVa_J1032, switching over to LBC for the rest of the night 07:55 - Starting MODS biases 08:10 - Preparing to observe OSU_N4826 08:30 - Starting OSU_N4826 08:45 - Seeing at 0.97 09:10 - Switching to OSU_N4395 09:35 - Seeing at 0.65 09:40 - Switching to OSU_N4258 09:50 - Starting OSU_N4258 10:05 - Seeing about 0.8 10:30 - Switching to OSU_N4736 10:50 - Starting OSU_N4736 10:55 - Seeing at 0.7 11:05 - Switching to OSU_N5194 11:15 - Starting OSU_N5194 11:40 - Seeing at about 0.7 11:55 - Switching to OSU_M101 12:05 - Starting OSU_M101 12:15 - Seeing about 0.9, some thin cirrus drifting in. 12:35 - Switching to OSU_N4236 12:55 - Seeing about 0.8 13:05 - Switching to calibrations