INAF LBC+LUCIFER queue observing, 2010 November 30 - December 01

Observer: K.Boutsia, M. Fumana,V. Testa
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Support Astronomer: D. Thompson
Instrument: LBC - LUCIFER

Summary

Clear Sky at the beginning, some cirrus at the horizon
20min lost due to software problems with dofpia - it could not find a library since it was pointing to an older build that had been deleted
Possible clouds during the night - but in general good seeing (0.8'' -1'' for LBC and less than 0.6'' for LUCIFER) ????CHECK
Attention - Imaging Flats taken with LUCIFER at dawn have been mistakenly called luci_20101011_FLat_... Difficult to find in archive. We copied them to external disk and renamed them

Data Summary

Project	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Clementini	AndXXI? - AndXIX?	B-bessel, V-bessel	105min + 105min	seeing <1.0' - some elongation problems at the beginning
Turatto	SN2009kr	J, H, Ks	640 s + 896 s + 896 s
Turatto	SN2010jl	J, H, Ks	12 s + 12 s + 24 s	guiding probe covers 1.4 of field during 3rd offset
Turatto	SN2010jl	200HK	2000sec	Tell+ARC+FLAT
Cresci	HDF	210zJHK+H	1hr	ARC+FLAT - NO Tell - use the one in Dec02

Details

Begin night with LBC

12:35 - Skyflat Test LBC - B(blue) - V(red) ok

12:41 - SkyFlat? B-V

• 1 sec B - V
• 2 sec B - V (increased to 4 during the OB)
• PA 180 1.5 sec B - 0.5 sec V
• PA 180 - 6sec B + 6sec V

12:53 - Slew to pointing star ACT0219

• Pointing correction OK + mirror adjust OK
• problems with setting the camera name - David fixed it...

01:10 - slew to PHOT_STD - SA113 dofpia,

• manually give Z11 = +1000
• problems with the dofpia - does not find the file libTCS.so -call Olga and call Norm -
• chris moved some files around - 01:31 we start dofpia again
• dofpia,
• Z7 = -2000 , Z8 =-1000, Z4=+10000 (only Red)
• keep trying to focus manually...

01:49 - slew to Clementini - AndXXI? -dofpia

• hit limits on the red mirror

02:04 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_1

• Blue images slightly elongated. Seeing good (0.8 V, 1.0 B)
• Sky clear, thin clouds at horizon SW
• Red Master

02:32 - M31_AndXIX_420s_1

• dofpia

02:38 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_1

• very high elevation - not co-pointing correctly because blue mirror is hitting limits
• images in both sides look elongated
• it crossed the meridian during the last exposure of the OB
• OB probably out of specs

03:02 - slew to AndXXI - dofpia

03:09 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_2

03:33 - slew to AndXIX - dofpia

03:39 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_2

04:03 - slew to AndXXI - dofpia

04:08 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_3

04:19 - slew to AndXIX - correct mirror - dofpia

04:46 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_3

05:10 - slew to AndXXI - dofpia

• after 5th iteration blue still did not converge but it was very close
• we send current values and start with science exposure

05:21 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_4

05:47 - slew to AndXIX - dofpia

05:53 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_4

06:18 - slew to AndXXI - dofpia

06:24 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_5

• airmass: reached 1.53

06:48 - slew to AndXIX - dofpia

06:52 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_5

• airmass: 1.5 to 1.6

07:15 - SWITCH TO LUCIFER

• Pointing Correction and collimation done by TO
• seeing is ~ 0.6 on the guider

08:07 - Slew to SN2009kr image acquisition (Turatto) 0003-0004

• we changed camera from N1.8 to N3.75
• also offset from relative to absolute ...
• sky reasonably clear, maybe thin cyrrhus here and there

08:15 - Science imaging scripts for SN2009kr

• Imaging H 0005-0020
• Imaging J 0021-0028
• Imaging Ks 0029-0044 (started at 08:56)

09:34 - Slew to SN2010jl image acquisition (Turatto) 0045-0046

• scripts had to be slightly modified

09:41 - Science imaging scripts for SN2010jl

• Imaging H 0047-0050
• Imaging J 0051-0054
• Imaging Ks 0055-0058
• in the 3rd offset the probe of the guiding star covers 1/4 of the field

09:50 - Spec acquisition script for SN2010jl 0059-0065

10:18 - Spec science scripts SN2010jl 0066-0073

10:55 - Calibration Unit IN

• ARC 0074-0075
• FLAT 0076-0111 check

11:15 - Slew to Telluric for SN2010jl spectra

• acquisition 0112-0117

11:27 - Science script for the Telluric 0118-0121

11:32 - Calibration Unit IN *FLAT 0122-0130

11:48 - Slew to HDF (Cresci)

• MOS aqcuisition script 0131-0135

12:08 - Science MOS script for HDF in the H band 0136 -0147

• NO TELLURIC because sky too bright

13:17 - Calibrationi Unit IN

• FLAT H 0148-0153
• ARC H 0154-0157

13:25 - Move to Flat position

• used script to make the flats and they were saved as luci_20101201_Flat_????
• Flats in J: 001-010 still dark, 011-020 low (1000), 031-040 ( 2500-3500), 051-060 high(7500-11000)
• Flats in H: 021-030 low (1000-1500), 041-050 ( 2800-4500), 61-70 high(9000-14000)
• Flats in Ks: 071-100 (2000-4800)

13:50 - END OF NIGHT

• Darks sciprt

-- VincenzoTesta - 01 Dec 2010---