Date: 2019 Jan 22 UT Observers: Jack Neustadt, Ness Mayker TO: David Gonzalez Huerta SA: Dave Thompson Moon phase: Waning Crescent (1 day past third quarter) Summary: Took BVR flats for Monitor program, ran OSU_Monitor N6503 & N6946 programs. Finished with a 30 minute gap before other visible LBC programs. Reran N6946 until N672 was observable. Had to close telescope due to high humidity. Ran MODS cals. For each of the cals we ran both blue and red for each of MODS1 and MODS2 except for the slitflats, where we ran blue only on MODS2 and red only for MODS1. Humidity was above acceptable levels before midnight and stayed high for rest of night. NOTE: MODS cals have wrong date associated with them. MODS1 is labeled 20190921 and MODS2 is labeled 20190920. For the MODS logs there are additional files from previous night observing. These are all the files that are not at ra = 0 and dec = -90. Queue Managers' Note: MODS logs have been merged into a single file and the extraneous file entries deleted. ------------------ Completed Programs: LBC OSU_Monitor N6503 LBC OSU_Monitor N6946 Calibrations: LBC B,V,R Bessel Sky-flats MODS bias cals (1K,3K,8K) MODS grlamps (dual, blue only, red only) MODS grpixflats (dual, blue only, red only) MODS imflats (dual, blue only, red only) MODS slitflats (dual, blue only - MODS2, red only - MODS1) Standard Stars: Details (All times UT): ----------------------------------------------- 01:00 - Humidity ~65%, Wind Speed 7 m/s, partly cloudy. 01:00 - Setting up LBC for monitor program. 01:30 - UsBVR skyflats for monitor program (recent Uspec already taken this month - need BVR Bessels) We took BVR Bessels but did not take additional Uspec. 02:00 - Collimating LBC: 1.4 seeing from DIMM, humidity going up to 77%, wind speed 10m/s 02:40 - Started OSU_Monitor N6503. Seeing (from FWHM): 1.0-1.2 02:55 - Started OSU_Monitor N6946. Seeing (from FWHM): 0.9-1.24 03:40 - No visible LBC targets for next 30 minutes. 03:45 - Rerunning OSU_Monitor N6946. Seeing (from FWHM): 0.8-0.9 04:20 - Tried to slew to N672 (visibility reported it was fine at 30 degrees). Had to cancel because focus field was only at 25 degrees. Compared focus field ras for 672 and 628. Can slew to focus field for 672 earlier than for 628. 04:50 - Started collimation for OSU_Monitor N672. 04:55 - Humidity at 90%. David is cautioning us that we will probably have to stop observing. 05:00 - Started OSU_Monitor N672. Humidity 91.2% and 95% at weather station. Telescope closed. 05:15 - Started MODS bias cals. (1K,3K,8K) 05:40 - Started grlamps. 06:15 - MODS2 grlamps blue only hangs upon completion. Rerunning. 06:25 - MODS grlamps red only 06:35 - MODS grpixflats. 06:55 - MODS1r20190921.34-35 not usable. (Slitless Dual Vflat 5 ND1.5) continue with MODS1r20190921.36 07:40 - MODS imflats. 08:40 - MODS slitflats.