Date: 2018 Nov 4 UT Observers: Jack Neustadt, Suk Sien Tie TO: Steve Allanson SA: Olga Kuhn Moon phase: NA Summary: Pretty good night -- completed all our intended programs. Sky was modest at the beginning of the night, with typical seeing of 1.4". There is an hour block between UT 6:30-7:30 where the seeing averaged 2", after which it remained <1" for the rest of the night. Completed Programs: OSU_BDVar J0036 OSU_manga m81443_f1/mods OSU_STORM mrk6/mods OSU_STORM mrk79/mods Calibrations: standard mods, m81352.cal (redo), m81443.cal, J0036.cal Standard Stars: bd284211, g191b2b Details (All times UT): ----------------------------------------------- 23:00 - MODS calibrations Redid OSU-manga-M81352 calibrations due to error with comp lamps grpixplats.cal (the last 2 images have junk names because we did fitsflush) grpixflats_r.cal grpixflats_b_mods2.cal slitflats_5as_b_mods2.cal 00:38 opening up dome clear with light cirrus on the horizon 00:58 bd284211 standard star acq 01:14 bd284211 obs (mods1-dual, mods1-red, mods2-blue) seeing 1.4 01:38 switching to MODS1 only OSU_BDVar acq seeing 1.5 01:54 OSU_BDVar obs seeing 1.6 - 1.7 light cirrus 03:00 image 6/30 of OSU_BDVar seeing 1.4 clear with some light cirrus on the horizon 05:00 image 15/30 of OSU_BDVar seeing 1.2, clear 06:00 image 20/30 of OSU_BDVar clear skies, ~1" seeing for the past hour 07:30 seeing's been jumping between 2"-3" for the past hour 07:35 connection got cut off temporarily -- no damage was done, scripts still run normally 08:10 OSU_manga m81443_f1 acq seeing 1.2, clear had to wait for azimuth to be unwrapped 08:27 m81443_fl obs (started a bit late) seeing 0.7" clear 09:50 seeing's been steady at 0.6"-0.7" for the past hour clear 10:25 image 6/6 of OSU_manga seeing back up to ~1.2" 10:42 done with OSU_manga Steve is going to fix some comm error between tertiary and secondary mirror controllers 10:48 OSU_STORM mrk6 acq seeing 0.6" clear 11:03 mrk6 obs (fixed a typo on the slit name in obs scripts -- also fixed the same typo for the rest of the targets) great sky 11:38 g191b2b acq (mods1-dual, mods1-red, mods2-blue) seeing 0.7" 11:43 g191b2b obs 12:12 OSU_STORM mrk79 acq seeing 0.6" 12:15 18 deg twilight 12:26 OSU_STORM mrk79 obs (another typo in the slit name!) seeing 0.8" last couple mods2blue images might be affected by brigtening sky 13:05 closing up dome doing cals for m18443 and j0036