INAF LBC+LUCIFER queue observing, 2010 February13-14

Observer: V. Testa, K.Boutsia
Telescope Operator: WWack
Support Astronomer: D. THompson
Instrument: LBC

Summary

* Good weather, thin clouds at the horizon.
* El. axis problem soon after opening. Evening flat fields lost
* Time lost: 90 min telescope
* Done standard star middle and end of night, the last during civil twilight

Data Summary

Project	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Rigliaco	NGC 2264	B, U	0.8 h	aver. seeing 0.9"
Giallongo	Q0933	g	3.3h	aver. seeing 1.0"
Giallongo	Cosmos	g	0.5h
Mereghetti	LDTR	Uspec	0.5h
Giallongo	Q1623	Uspec	1.0h
Calibration	SA 107	Us,U,B,g,V,r	0.6h	two airmasses
Calibration	SA104	Us,U,B,g	0.4h	two airmasses

Details

01:05 - Open, try to point FF spot.

01:20 - El. axis fail to start

02:38 - Slew to Rigliaco field NGC 2264

02:39 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• -16752 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.33 6.60
• exited on the second iteration. Strong coma.
• clearly wrong. Put Z7=-2500, Z4=10000 and retry

02:46 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• Z4 still big but correctly fit. (+8900)
• error again. Still residual coma. Try Z7 -1000
• 1222 1234 -1837 -1891 -1393 -35 150 0.85 1.33
• -1084 -1012 555 1196 -367 31 150 1.65 0.79
• -701 454 139 -206 74 348 150 1.34 0.40
• -839 -116 496 177 -122 273 122 1.67 0.42
• -439 201 -161 48 -2 96 13 1.25 0.21

02:57 - Rigliaco_NGC2264_B1

• 025906 - 0.87" seeing, round.
• ~1.0 seeing at the end

03:37 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• -239 -153 535 689 7 -57 -150 0.94 0.37
• 629 -321 -453 -90 241 -131 -98 1.02 0.34
• -346 -196 -624 74 -10 184 -23 1.09 0.28
• 511 -47 409 -87 18 -345 -89 0.98 0.33
• 34 252 260 127 -73 -107 -5 0.99 0.16

03:45 - Rigliaco_NGC2264_U1

04:15 - Slew to Giallongo Q0933

04:17 - dopfia/BlueOnly

• -3622 -10 99 261 -86 210 -24 1.03 1.44
• 112 -117 -23 86 -75 -60 -71 1.09 0.12

04:22 - Q0933_g-SLOAN_giallongo_a

04:57 - dofpia/BlueOnly

• 660 -42 297 -103 125 -336 -110 1.03 0.36
• 277 37 -254 -415 -140 -86 -3 1.00 0.26
• went out of synchro, not finding the image, and hence no pupils found

05:04 - ctrl/C backout Z11 and restart dofpia,/BlueOnly

• no pupils found!!!!!

05:06 - dofpia,/BlueOnly,/X2

• 248 -457 68 186 4 -247 -9 1.04 0.26
• 97 186 -160 -36 -20 34 -50 0.95 0.12

05:10 - Q0933_g-SLOAN_giallongo_b

05:46 - dofpia,/BlueOnly,/X2

• 865 262 -494 379 4 -345 39 1.18 0.48
• -173 -377 865 6 -65 25 5 1.11 0.30
• -161 -151 -336 -53 -23 66 27 1.23 0.16

05:51 - Q0933_g-SLOAN_giallongo_c Lost focus at the last iterations

06:27 - dofpia/Blueonly/X2

• -411 216 3 -17 23 115 44 1.61 0.20

06:29 - Q0933_g-SLOAN_giallongo_d

• Looses focus as OB goes by. Probably related to high elevation and failure of collimation model at -2.5C.
• Quite strange because it did fine before.

07:04 - dofpia/BlueOnly/X2

• -1427 444 100 14 346 258 48 1.27 0.63
• 116 -523 79 151 326 14 4 1.35 0.24

07:09 - Q0933_g-SLOAN_giallongo_e

07:45 - dofpia,/BlueOnly,/X2

• -545 -335 -415 200 -204 396 -41 1.02 0.40
• 71 210 58 189 -10 -52 -79 1.01 0.14

07:49 - Q0933_g-SLOAN_giallongo_f

Always focus change during OB

08:25 - dofpia,/BlueOnly,/X2

• -1432 -175 15 176 71 -205 16 1.09 0.59
• -769 -171 -129 -196 -99 64 20 1.09 0.34
• -439 471 42 -26 -322 87 -13 1.19 0.28

08:30 - Q0933_g-SLOAN_giallongo_g

Probably photometric. Do two standard fields, at low and high elevation

09:07 - SA107 UBVUsgr 4pos

09:29 - SA104 UBgUs 4 pos

09:41 - Slew to Cosmos field

09:43 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• -2760 -95 -220 373 -93 75 78 1.54 1.11
• -1192 -247 130 75 7 251 -46 1.22 0.51
• -125 -24 262 -15 98 6 -48 1.09 0.13

09:48 - cosmosG1_b

10:20 - Slew to Q1623 and collimate

10:22 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• -1431 564 139 74 13 -28 96 1.35 0.60
• -323 70 239 -111 -163 48 38 1.32 0.19

10:26 - Q1623_Uspec_1

Low elevation yet. Seeing above 1.4", stop. Slew to Mereghetti

10:34 - slew to LDRT_Ui-1La

10:36 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• -831 -520 -568 159 143 131 16 1.25 0.43
• -212 -60 -232 -1 -40 102 -78 0.98 0.15

10:39 - LDRT_Ui-1La (Mereghetti)

• seeing ~1.2 , slightly above constraints improves during OB play
• guiding star sometimes moves around

11:11 - Slew to Q1623 and dofpia,/BlueOnly

• 2326 283 38 -63 -233 -83 14 1.12 0.93
• 407 279 52 -52 -32 -59 13 1.08 0.20

11:14 - Q1623_Uspec_1

11:49 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• 1079 -275 383 -372 37 -284 29 1.12 0.52
• -224 -188 425 145 100 167 4 1.08 0.22

11:53 - Q1623_Uspec_2

• seeing 1.15 to 1.35, slightly above constraints

12:30 Slew to SA107 UBVUsgr 4pos and dofpia,/BlueOnly

• -1997 11 -680 245 90 -7 83 0.96 0.82
• -309 89 -159 -110 91 69 27 1.01 0.17

12:35 - SA107_UsUBgVr

12:51 - SA104_UBgUs

13:07 - Slew to Flat Field spot and wait the sky brightening

13:16 - SkyFlat_g 5x5s PA=0

13:20 - SkyFlat g 5x5s PA=180

Redo g 3s (~20000 cts)

13:32 - SkyFlat B 5x4s PA=0 last one slightly saturated

13:36 - SkyFlat B 5x2s PA=180 slightly saturated too....

13:41 - SkyFlat Uspec 5x1s PA=180

13:44 - Sky Flat U 5x0.7s PA=180

13:48 - Sky Flat Uspec 5x0.5s PA=0, saturates quite soon, aborted.

13:51 - End of Night

-- VincenzoTesta - 14 Feb 2010

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Accidental overwrite with notes from Feb 14-15, can probably delete the following content (dthompson)

INAF LBC+LUCIFER queue observing, 2010 February14-15

Observer: V. Testa, K.Boutsia
Telescope Operator: WWack
Support Astronomer: D. Thompson
Instrument: LBC

Summary

* Fernando on the mountain. LBC Red pumped and LN2 filled. Temp. and pressure are decreasing regularly. * Good weather, very thin clouds at the horizon.

Data Summary

Project	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes

Details

00:58 - 5 Bias monoB

01:08 - 10Bias_Bino

01:13 - stopped bias 8/10. Slew to 04:50 , +27:00 for flats

01:15 - Sky Flat Test U 0.3s (~62000)

01:18 - Sky Flat U 5x0.5s PA=0

• 1st one slightly saturated

01:22 - Sky Flat Uspec 5x0.8s PA=0

01:25 - Sky Flat B 5x0.5s PA=0

01:29 - Sky Flat B 5x1.0s PA=180

01:33 - SkyFlat V 5x2.0s PA=0

01:38 - Sky Flat V 5x5.0s PA=180

01:43 - Sky Flat r 5x10.0s PA=180

• 800 counts. Strange behavior, looks like shutter got stuck. Test with V and r fast OBs.
• Shutter seems not to be working. Try shutdown and restarting the camera.

02:00 - No way. Shutter in strange position

• Try to move with testpower and minicom.
• Succeeded.

02:20 - Exposure ok. Restart (35 min downtime, although it does not affect science time, as it happened during twilight)

02:23 - Slew to NGC 2264

02:25 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• Usual Z7 -3000 Needed

02:28 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• Big pupils. Z7 not applied. Also need Z4 +10000

02:32 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• still not converging properly, sends crazy Z4=-13544
• Z4 +14000
• Z7 -2000

02:38 - try again....

• reached a reasonable fit
• 1785 -3111 -1172 1214 -970 -688 150 0.00 1.46
• 414 1075 -473 -1262 -248 -184 150 1.93 0.71
• 171 1201 -202 237 -224 41 150 0.89 0.40
• -439 144 277 51 102 0 0 2.14 0.22

02:45 - NGC 2264 V1

• Out of focus since the beginning.
• Stop and redo dofpia

• -154 278 281 308 81 448 103 1.07 0.35
• -756 226 96 168 -85 248 37 1.28 0.36
• -97 138 90 155 -7 45 -44 1.36 0.13

02:55 - NGC 2264 V1

03:35 - dofpia,/BlueOnly

• -935 -117 -522 1021 -134 327 -150 1.07 0.65
• 168 74 726 -93 114 -191 -141 0.99 0.28
• 275 46 261 78 21 -75 -59 0.93 0.17

03:42 - NGC 2264 R1

-- VincenzoTesta - 15 Feb 2010