Date: 2020 Feb 29 UTC Observers: Duck, Vallely TO: Josh Williams SA: Olga Kuhn Moon phase: Waxing crescent (illumination 20%) Summary: Good night of mostly LBC; one MODS target at the start. Calibrations: MODS standard G191B2B Completed Programs: ND_bs5/bs5 OSU_monitor/N2403 OSU_monitor/N3344 OSU_monitor/N3627 OSU_monitor/N4214 UVa_CANDELS/EGS_OB01 UVa_CANDELS/EGS_OB02 UVa_CANDELS/EGS_OB03 OSU_monitor/N4395* OSU_monitor/M81 OSU_monitor/N5194* OSU_monitor/N5474* *exposure(s) impacted by clouds -------- 01:00 - Pretty cloudy, so going to start with MODS and hope it clears up a bit. 02:00 - Moving to bs5, the only useful target that is really visible right now. 02:15 - Now doing science exposures for bs5. Getting pretty variable extinction due to clouds, but the average seems to be between 1.5 and 2 mag. Seeing began at ~1.1", but increased over the course of the observation to ~1.5" at some points. 03:10 - Added a couple exposures to compensate for the clouds and pre-twilight start. Lost one exposure's worth of time on MODS2B due to it hanging. 03:35 - Going to get standard G191B2B. 04:00 - Sky has cleared up a ton and conditions look good, so we're going to switch to LBC. 04:20 - Starting with N2403 to make sure we have a focus field with lots of stars for dohybrid. 04:35 - Now moving to N3344. Had to unwrap the telescope after focusing/co-pointing. Seeing ain't great, about 1.8". 05:25 - On to N3627. Seeing is between 1.3" and 1.6". Lost the last exposure because right side mirror panicked. 06:25 - Recoverd, moving to N4214 and running dohybrid to recover from panic. 07:00 - Starting OB1 of CANDELS. Seeing is a bit better than 1.4". 07:40 - Re-collimated, now doing OB2 of CANDELS. Seeing is still a bit less than 1.4". 08:25 - Now getting OB3. Seeing down to 1.2". 09:10 - Back to monitor targets, getting N4395. Focus field is far from target, so after a rather long slew back to target the images were very out of focus. Going to dofpia on the target field to try to fix that. 09:25 - Starting attempt #2 on N4395. This time it worked, and seeing was between 1.1" and 1.3". Some clouds popped up that probably ruined the last exposure. Will return to redo the target if we can finish the rest of the priority 1/2 monitor targets before twilight. 09:35 - Moving to try to get M81 before it sets. Seeing is just a touch better than 1.5". 10:10 - On to N5747. Seeing starts at 1.2" and worsens as clouds appear. Clouds very much impacting images during second half of observation. Not good enough for science. 11:10 - Back on sky, going for N5194. Seeing started a bit rough, around 1.7". Still some clouds impacting the images, but these ones aren't obliterating the images as before. Seeing improved to about 1.2" as the observation progressed and the clouds cleared. Looks like a satellite trail in the last exposure. 11:50 - Re-doing the first set of images for N5194 to ensure clouds from prior observation aren't an issue. 12:15 - Now going back to N5754. Seeing is ~1.2". Last couple exposures are noticeably impacted by the post-twilight brightening sky. 13:00 - Taking flats, and then going to finish with biases.