Date: 2020 Nov 21 UTC Observers: Jack Neustadt, Patrick Vallely, Rick Pogge Remote Participants: Charlotte Wood, Peter Garnavich TO: Steve Allanson SA: Olga Kuhn All observers and SAs working remotely from their respective homes. Moon phase: Waxing Crescent (Illumination: 43%) Summary: Good night. Started with MODS, switched to LBC, then back to MODS. Seeing for most of the night was 0.5-1", went up to ~1" with some clouds at the end of the night. Running out of targets, especially early in the night. Calibrations: MODSPhotCal/feige110 MODSPhotCal/gd71 ***NEED LBC I-BAND FLATS*** Executed Programs: MODS: ND_j0053/j0053 UVa_BCD_MODS/J0150 OSU_ASASSN/HD45762obs3 OSU_ASASSN/ASASSN14ae LBC: OSU_dwarfs/PiscesB OSU_monI/OSUmonIN628 OSU_monI/OSUmonIN672 OSU_monitor/M81 Details (All times UT): ---------------------------------- 00:29 - starting up MODS 01:01 - started acquiring for feige110 01:12 - started exposures for feige110 seeing is 0.6" 01:25 - started acquiring for ND_j0053 01:49 - started exposures for ND_j0053 "companion" source does not appear in slit 02:11 - mods1r and mods2 are synced up (mods2b out of sync), but OBs wanted mods1 and mods2 out of sync for time series unsure what caused this - might have been mods1r readout delay mods1b and mods2b are out of sync, which seems fine 02:38 - seeing around 1" 02:43 - mods2r hangup, "red exp done" - might have lost a mods2r exposure 03:05 - mods2b hangup WITH error meessage, might have skipped an exposure, but images are still out of sync 03:46 - started acquiring for UVa_BCD_MODS/J0150 04:02 - started exposures for UVa_BCD_MODS/J0150 seeing around 0.7" 04:35 - thin cirrus 04:56 - switching to LBC 05:15 - started acquiring for OSU_dwarfs/PiscesB some issues with OSU_dwarfs scripts - not a lot of stars in the pointing fields 05:32 - started exposures for OSU_dwarfs/PiscesB (using B1.ob) seeing around 0.7-0.8" 05:56 - seeing around 0.9-1.0" 06:02 - recollimating for OSU_dwarfs/PiscesB 06:07 - started exposures for OSU_dwarfs/PiscesB (using B1.ob) seeing around 0.9" on B, 0.7" on R 06:30 - seeing around 0.8" some faint streaks in some of the images, at least one going through source 06:36 - started acquiring for OSU_monI/OSUmonIN628 06:51 - started exposures for OSU_monI/OSUmonIN628 backgrounds counts are 20-30k because of long (300s) exposures seeing around 0.7" 07:18 - seeing around 0.5" (wow!!) 07:28 - started acquiring for OSU_monI/OSUmonIN672 07:38 - started exposures for OSU_monI/OSUmonIN672 a lot of sources are saturated due to long exposure times 08:16 - started acquiring for OSU_monitor/M81 08:29 - started exposures for OSU_monitor/M81 seeing around 1.3" for R, 1.5" for B 08:42 - switching to MODS 09:02 - started acquiring for OSU_ASASSN/HD45762obs3 using UT0900.acq (PA = -12) 09:14 - started exposures for OSU_ASASSN/HD45762obs3 seeing around 0.7" 09:31 - started acquiring for MODSPhotCal/gd71 09:39 - started exposures for MODSPhotCal/gd71 seeing around 0.7" 09:58 - started acquiring for OSU_ASASSN/ASASSN14ae 10:20 - started exposures for OSU_ASASSN/ASASSN14ae seeing around 1.1" 10:37 - seeing around 0.7" 11:04 - some clouds, up to 1 mag of extinction 11:47 - seeing around 0.7", still 1 mag of extinction 12:33 - done for the night Tonight's plan: MODSPhotCal/feige110 01:40 - 02:00 ND_j0053/j0053 02:05 - 03:55 UVa_BCD_MODS/J0150 04:00 - 05:05 --- Switch to LBC --- OSU_dwarfs/PiscesB 05:15 - 06:30 OSU_monI/OSUmonIN628 06:35 - 07:30 OSU_monI/OSUmonIN672 07:35 - 08:20 OSU_monitor/M81 08:25 - 08:45 --- Switch to MODS --- OSU_ASASSN/HD45762obs3 09:00 - 09:20 MODSPhotCal/gd71 09:25 - 09:40 OSU_ASASSN/ASASSN14ae 09:45 - 13:00 Calibrations used/needed: ND_j0053/j0053 - LS5x60x0.8; dual grating; ***1x2 binning*** UVa_BCD_MODS/J0150 - LS5x60x1.2; dual grating OSU_ASASSN/HD45762obs3 - LS5x60x2.4; dual grating OSU_ASASSN/ASASSN14ae - LS5x60x1.0; dual grating LBC I band flats