INAF LBC+LUCIFER queue observing, 2010 December 01 - 02

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

Summary

Thin clouds but generally good conditions.
Seeing <0.8''
Attention: Flats have been named luci_20101011_Flats and are difficult to find in archive. We saved locally 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	SN2009kn	J, H, Ks	640 s + 896 s + 896 s	??????
Turatto	SN2010jl	J, H, Ks	12 s + 12 s + 24 s	repeated with different guide star
Turatto	SN2010gi	J, H, Ks	80 s + 160 s +240 s	low airmass
Cresci	HDF	210zJHK+H	1hr	ARC+FLAT - Tell
Cresci	HDF	210zJHK+K	1hr	ARC+FLAT - Tell

Details

Begin night with LBC

12:25 Turn on LBC

• 10Bias_Bino

12:34 - Skyflat Test LBC - B(blue) - V(red) ok

12:44 - SkyFlat B-V

• PA 180 2.5 sec B - 2.5sec V
• PA 90 - 6sec B + 6sec V
• PA 270 10sec B - 10sec V

12:53 - Slew to pointing star WT10_351

• Pointing correction OK + mirror adjust OK
• problems with setting the camera name - David fixed it again
• it does not read LBC or RedLBC as lbcr and it does not find the file

01:16 - slew to Clementini - AndXXI -dofpia

• manually give correction becuase of large come in the Red and some astigmatism in the Blue
• hit limits on red mirror

01:39 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_6

• Seeing good - 0.8'' from the dimm
• Ob aborted because focus was lost on the red mirror. *dofpia

01:56 - repeat OB - M31_AndXXI_420s_6

• seeing 0.8'' on both sides
• blue images slightly elongated

02:20 - slew to AndXIX - dofpia

02:26 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_6

• very high elevation - it can not keep focus

02:50 - slew to AndXXI - dofpia

03:00 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_7

03:24 - slew to AndXIX - dofpia

03:31 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_7

03:56 - Slew to AndXXI - dofpia

• after 5 iterations still not converging with 0.7 seeing.....
• stopped with small residual X astig on SX

04:08 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_8

• tonight left mirror is having big trouble in keeping itself collimated

04:31 - slew to AndXIX - dofpia

• since the seeing is very good, we change the limits for dofpia (Initialize)
• we have also put higher limits for the astigmatism since it doesn't seem to be able to correct it
• dofpia, RedInitialize=250,BlueInitialize=300,Redlimit=300,Bluelimit=300

04:40 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_8

05:05 - slew to AndXXI - dofpia

• the rotator is very slow
• 3 iterations but very good Zernikes

05:12 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_9

05:38 - slew to AndXIX - dofpia

• the rotator is very slow again
• TO adjusted the mirrors
• 3 iterations but very good Zernikes, bluie only two, expected better from the red
• sky look ok, probably photometric

05:43 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_9

06:08 - slew to AndXXI - dofpia

• always with dofpia, RedInitial=250,BlueInitial=300,RedLimit=300,BlueLimit=300
• blue converged during the 1st iteration - 2 iterations for the red

06:13 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXXI_420s_10 * ended at airmass=1.51

06:36 - slew to AndXIX - dofpia

• always with dofpia, RedInitial=250,BlueInitial=300,RedLimit=300,BlueLimit=300
• RED converged during the 1st iteration - 2 iterations for the BLUE

06:41 - observing target Clementini - M31_AndXIX_420s_10

• ended at airmass 1.58, seeing around 0.8 both filters

07:04 - Do standard SA92_BV (airmass~2.0)

07:09 - Do standard SA95_BV (airmass~1.2)

07:14 - Do standard SA98_BV (airmass~1.4)

07:18 - SWITCH TO LUCIFER

07:42 - Slew to SN2010gi for pointing correction and collimation

07:46 - acquisition imaging SN2010gi 0001-0002

07:53 - Imaging Science SN2010gi

• H 0003-0006
• J 0007-0010
• Ks 0011-0014

08:09 - repeat imaging on SN2010jl: acquisition 0015-0016

08:16 - Imaging Science SN2010jl

• H 17-0020
• J 0021-0024
• Ks 0025-0028

08:25 - Slew to SN2009kn Image Acquisition 0029-0030

08:29 - Imaging Science SN2009kn

• H 0031-0046
• J 0047-0054
• Ks 0055-0070

09:35 - Acquisition Cresci HDF-N MOS

• needed to change guide star, 10 minutes lost
• mask turnout 0071-0072
• through-slit 0073-0074

10:03 - MOS Science HDFN H_2 0075-0086

11:10 - Calibration Unit IN

• ARC H 0087-0090
• FLAT H 0091-0096

11:20 - Slew to Tell for HDF

• repeat acquisition because guide star had to be changed
• 0097-0103

11:34 - Sci Int for Tell in H (HDF)

• too bright
• the read mode is mer so even if DIT is 2sec it actually exposes for 10sec 0104-0111
• image of Tell in the left most position without the grism to see if it is well centered 0112-0113

11:43 - Mirror adjustment and pointing correction

11:52 - Tell acq again for K band 0114-0115

11:57 - Sci Int for Tell in K (HDF) 0116-0123 * Telluric has no archive info in the header - just INAF

12:00 - Acquisition script for MOS spectrooscopy for Cresci (HDF) 0124-0128

12:15 - MOS science script for HDF in K band 0129-0140

13:21 - Calibration Unit IN

• ARC K 0141-0144
• FLAT K with Halo1 0145-0152
• FLAT K with Halo2 0153-0158

13:34 - Calib Unit OFF - moving to flat position

• Flats in J: 001-010 low (5000counts), 021-030 high (15000counts)
• Flats in H:==011-020== low (5000counts), 031-040 high (15000-20000counts)
• Flats in K: 041-070 (4000 - 8000counts)

13:53 - CLOSE DOME

• darks script

-- VincenzoTesta - 02 Dec 2010