Date: 2020 Nov 24 UTC Observers: Jack Neustadt, Dragon Reed, Rick Pogge TO: Josh WIlliams SA: Olga Kuhn All observers and SAs working remotely from their respective homes. Moon phase: Waxing Gibbous (Illumination: 63%) Summary: Only had ~3 hr to do LUCI targets due to PEPSI ToO at beginning of the night + half night of PEPSI transit follow-up the second half of the night. MODS is off the telescope until mid-December for the PEPSI-POL campaign. Seeing was good at the start, but blew up to ~2" in the last hour. Overheads from LUCI were quite longer than anticipated, so we cut our last target short to switch over to PEPSI on time. Calibrations: LUCI cals (see Olga's log) Executed Programs: ND_origin/HE0233-0343 UVa_nirjets/OMC_2-3MM7 (bad variable seeing, 9 out of 11 exposures, aborted midway to switch for PEPSI) Details (All times UT): ---------------------------------- 00:00 - PEPSI ToO until ~3:30 03:45 - starting with LUCI pointing + collimating 04:02 - began acquiring for ND_origin/HE0233-0343 target seeing around 3" (not good) 04:20 - began exposures for ND_origin/HE0233-0343 target had to rerun for luci1 due to GUI issue, but luci2 running fine 04:29 - both luci's now in sync seeing around 1.2" 04:38 - seeing around 0.8" 05:01 - seeing still around 0.8" 05:31 - seeing around 1" 05:39 - began acquiring for ND_origin/HE0233-0343 telluric 05:49 - began exposures for ND_origin/HE0233-0343 telluric 05:57 - GSC left error - not guiding for some of the exposures guide star might have been out of range for some exposures due to dithering up and down issue could've been avoided by choosing different guide star this was *probably* not an issue, as the counts in the spectra seem fine 05:58 - began acquiring for UVa_nirjets/OMC_2-3MM7 06:02 - began exposures for UVa_nirjets/OMC_2-3MM7 seeing degrading, hovering between 1.4-1.7", airmass 1.6" PSFs look elongated, collimation is bad seeing is 1.2" x 1.1" Star in GCS gui looking cut off at edge (from offsetting maybe?) 06:19 - luci2 got stuck due to filter wheel issue solved by reinitializing 06:24 - restarting sequence of Brgamma + H2 images 06:34 - seeing around 1.2", but PSFs are still elongated seeing blowing up to 2" 06:43 - ended sequence early (2 exposures remaining) switching over to PEPSI Tentative Schedule: ND_origin/HE0233-0343_acq_sci 03:45 - 05:15 UVa_nirjets/OMC_2-3MM7 05:20 - 06:05