Date: 2019 Dec 22 UTC Observers: Phillips, Vallely, Wood TO: Steve Allanson SA: O. Kuhn Moon phase: Waning Crescent (Illumination 25%) Summary: Some quality LBC observations at the start of the night, followed by mostly poor-weather MODS programs to try and salvage something useful from the back half. Calibrations: B&R LBC twilight flats (to account for shadow feature) Dual grating + red + blue MODS standard Feige 34 Completed Programs: OSU_monitor/N672 OSU_LBCSBF/AGC748778 OSU_LBCSBF/KK15 OSU_LBCSBF/KK17 OSU_ASASSN/ASASSN19dj OSU_STORM/pg0844 OSU_STORM/ngc3227 OSU_STORM/mrk142 OSU_STORM/ngc3516 OSU_STORM/arp151 OSU_STORM/sbs1116 Details (All times UT): ---------------------------------- 00:45 - Taking some twilight flats. 01:30 - Starting with OSU_monitor/N672. Seeing started <1" but got worse as the focus deteriorated. We decided to pause to refocus, which got us down to about 0.6" (!) 02:30 - Moving on to OSU_LBCSBF/AGC748778. Seeing started at ~0.9", but we needed to refocus halfway through the exposure sequence to get it back down to ~0.9". 04:00 - Starting OSU_LBCSBF/KK15. Seeing is about 0.7". 04:55 - Moving to OSU_LBCSBF/KK17. Seeing is around 0.8". 06:00 - Now switching to MODS as clouds are rolling in. 06:35 - About to start OSU_ASASSN/ASASSN19dj. A good bit of clouds overhead, evidently causing ~3 mag of extinction. Planning to manually execute a fourth exposure to compensate for the cloud extinction. 08:15 - Moving to OSU_STORM/pg0844, hoping its high elevation helps mitigate cloud issues. 09:00 - Going to get standard Feige 34. 09:50 - On to OSU_STORM/ngc3227. Measuring the guide star indicates about 4.5 mag of cloud extinction. 10:40 - On to OSU_STORM/mrk142. 11:20 - Starting OSU_STORM/ngc3516. Clouds don't look quite as awful as they were earlier on the all-sky cam. 11:50 - Moving to OSU_STORM/arp151. 12:30 - Going to get one last target in before calling it a night, OSU_STORM/sbs1116.