INAF LBC+LUCIFER queue observing, 2010 April08-09

Observer: A. Fontana, K.Boutsia, R. Speziali
Telescope Operator: D.Gonzales Huerta
Support Astronomer: D. Thompson
Instrument: LUCIFER1

Summary

No clouds at the beginning of the night. Photometric night with good seeing (0.7-1.0)
Almost 2 hrs lost because of flipped MOS masks and unsuitable guiding stars.

Data Summary

Project	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Grazian	GOODS-N	200H+K OrderSep	2hrs	arc - flat - tell
Mannucci	Q1422	210zJHK K	3hrs	arc - flat - tell
Hipp69490	Telluric	200H+K OrderSep		with Grazian Mask
Hipp69490	Telluric	210zJHK K		with Grazian Mask

Details

01:30 - Sky Flat fields in the J band - imaging

• 2secs / 15000-10000counts 0001-0010
• 2secs / 9000-5000counts 0011-0020
• 2secs / <5000counts 0021-0030

02:10 - Pointing Star High Elevation (WT10_303) 0031

02:15 - Pointing Star Low Elevation (ACT0056) 0032-0034

02:21 - Point Star High Elevation (WT10_303) 0035

02:25 - Point Star near the first observing field of the night (WT10_220) - image not saved

02:28 - Persson standard BS9138 for collimation (POSITION,ACTIVE)

02:30 - Collimation - preset to Zamorani (COSMOS-cla1) acquisition script

02:37 - SCI script for Zamorani

• Increase exposure time to 60 sec because sources too faint to see. 0036-0040
• Cla1 field aborted because slit-mask is flipped

03:04 - preset to Zamorani (COSMOS-cla2) acquisition script 0041-0042

• Cla2 field aborted because slit-mask is flipped

03:25 - preset to Zamorani (COSMOS-cla4) acquisition script 0043-0044

• Cla4 field aborted because slit-mask is flipped

03:40 - preset to Mannucci (HDF) acquisition script

• script aborted because the guide star is too far away. We did not manage to find suitable guide stars manually.

04:14 - preset to Grazian (POINT1) acquisition script 0045-0048

04:46 - starting Grazian SCI script and begin with the MOS spectroscopy 0049-0060

05:55 - repeat Grazian SCI script on the same field for the acquisition of the 2nd hour 0061-0072

07:01 - Calibration Unit on - Flat acquisition script for Grazian

• we changed lamp from halo1 to halo2
• halo2 OFF 0073-0075
• halo2 ON 0076-0078

07:07 - Arc acquisition script

• Dark Ar 0079
• ARC Ar 0080
• Dark Ne 0081
• ARC Ne 0082

07:15 - Telluric star (Hipp69490) from Manucci-HDF script

• guide star too far - abort

07:25 - Telluric star (Hipp69490) from Manucci-Q1422 script with the Grazian Slit Mask in

• guide star not found

07:32 - Correct pointing with pointing star WT10_297 0083

07:35 - Telluric star from manucci-Q1422 (Hipp69490) script with the Grazian Slit Mask in

• since no guide star available we pass to track and we calculate slit offsets manually because the shift-image function did not work
• tests to put telluric in the slit 0084-0087
• telluric in far right slit with Grazian filter setup (clear-Ordersep) 0088-0089
• telluric in the same slit with Mannucci filter setup (clear-K) 0090-0091
• put telluric in far left slit (Br-gam filter) 0092
• telluric in the same slit with Mannucci filter setup 0093
• telluric in far left slit with Grazian filter setup 0094

08:18 - Preset to Mannucci Q1422 ACQ_script

• the guide star was not reachable and we changed, putting the one used for pre-imaging in February 0095-0098
• MOS Aquisition application to place the sources in the slits crashes. We have to repeat.

08:55 - Starting Mannucci SCI_script for the Q1422 filed 0099-0110

• K band - spectroscopy - script K_1
• N1.8 / 210zJHK / clear+K/ 300secx1x12offset

10:13 - Starting Mannucci SCI_script for the Q1422 filed 0113-0124

• K band - spectroscopy - script K_2
• Before starting we took a through slit image to see if sources still centered 0111-0112

11:20 - Starting Mannucci SCI_script for the Q1422 filed 0125-0136

• K band - spectroscopy - script K_3
• skycat got stuck saving 2nd integration and before starting with the 3rd.
• error connection to GEIRS server timed out while waiting for answer
• it resumed on its own after a while... should be OK

12:40 - Calibration Unit on - Arc acquisition script for Mannucci Q1422

• Dark Ar 0137
• ARC Ar 0138
• Dark Xe 0139
• ARC Xe 0140

12:50 - Flat field and Darks aquisition through script DoFlats.txt

• Series of flats with different exposure times for both Mannucci 0141-0180
• and Grazian Masks 0181-0220

13:30 - DoDarks.txt script - End of night

• The Darks script was interrupted - only 5sec/30sec and 2 images with 300sec darks.

-- VincenzoTest - 09 Apr 2010