INAF queue observing, 2015 Feb 9-10

Observer: F. Cusano, R. Carini
Telescope Operator: D. Gonzales Huerta
Support Astronomer: Olga Kuhn
Instrument: LUCI/MODS-LBC

Summary

At the sunset the sky is clear.
Some problem with the LUCi rotator at the beginning of the night (solved at UT02:15).
Due to mask exchange problem with LUCI we had to swith to MODs at UT04:00.
The seeing was all night below 1 arcsec. No clouds.

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Antoniucci	sdssj0510ori	HK , zJ + img in H		COMPLETED
telluric	Hip23098	HK and zJ	12 s
skyflat	LUCI	H
Saracco B	RDCS-2	red graiting	3 h
standard	Feige 34	red graiting	6 m
Mignoli MOS22	SDSSJ1148	red graiting	1h 30 m	parallel mode
Mignoli LBC_MOS22_red	SDSSJ1148	filter Y-FAN	30m
Mignoli LBC_MOS22_red	SDSSJ1148	filter z	30m
Mignoli LBC_MOS22_red	SDSSJ1148	filter i-SLOAN	30m
Mignoli LBC_MOS22_red	SDSSJ1148	filter r-SLOAN	20m
skyflat	LBC	filter Y, i		i to be repeated

Details

01:03 The TO opens the dome

01:09 Begin the sky flat field

• sky flat field in the H filter for Antoniucci program luci.20150210.0011-0031

01.30 problems with the telescope

• the LUCI's rotator doesn't work, because the fans to cool down the rotator were switched off during the LBTI run.
  TO tries to solve the problem

02:14 problem solved, seeing 0.7

• We can start the Antoniucci's program sdssj0510ori, start with the imaging
• ExecuteLUCIscript.sh sdssj0510_H.img luci.20150210.0032-0033 are saturated, the seeing is too low
• we decrease the exposure time to 4 s, ExecuteLUCIscript.sh sdssj0510_H.img luci.20150210.0034-0039 are saturated
• the star is very bright, we are defocusing and try again ExecuteLUCIscript.sh sdssj0510_H.img luci.20150210.0040-0045 the images are good

02:29 seeing 0.9, we slew to the spectroscopic acquisition of the target

• ExecuteLUCIscript.sh sdssj0510_ls_zJ.acq, but there is a problem

02:34 try again the acquisition luci.20150210.0046-0049

02:46 ExecuteLUCIscript.sh sdssj0510_ls_HK.spec luci.20150210.0050-0053

• seeing is 0.6

03:10 ExecuteLUCIscript.sh sdssj0510_ls_zJ.spec luci.0054-57

03:34 We slew to telluric star Hip23098

• ExecuteLUCIscript.sh hip23098_ls_zJ.acq luci.0058-0060

03:42 ExecuteLUCIscript.sh hip23098_ls_HK.spec luci.0061-0062 S/N low

03:45 we increase the exposure time to increase the S/N

• ExecuteLUCIscript.sh hip23098_ls_HK.spec luci.0063-0064

03:47 ExecuteLUCIscript.sh hip23098_ls_zJ.spec luci.0065-0066

• also in this case the S/N is low, we increase the exposure time

03:50 ExecuteLUCIscript.sh hip23098_ls_zJ.spec luci.0067-0068

03:53 we slew to Piconcelli's A1 program

• seeing 0.53
• problem with the mask change

04:23 the problem is not solved by night assistents (also Dave Thompson at the phone), we switch to MODS and slew to the Saracco B program

04:45 Saracco B acqMODS mods.7.RDCSm1.acq mods1r.20150210.0002-0004

04:56 execMODS mods.7.RDCSm1_5.obs mods1r.20150210.0005-0008

• seeing 0.75

05:46 seeing increase up to 0.9

06:06 execMODS mods.7.RDCSm1_6.obs mods1r.20150210.0009-0012

• seeing between 0.65 and 0.75

06:43 seeing grows up to 0.85-0.9; we reach the limit of the rotator

07:16 the TO unwraps the rotator

• seeing 0.9

07:19 acqMODS mods7.recovery.acq

• mods1r.20150210.0013-0014

07:34 execMODS mods.7.RDCSm1_7.obs

• mods1r.20150210.0015-0018
• seeing 0.75

08:16 the sky counts are increasing due to moon.

• The problem with the LUCI mask graber was solved.

08:45 we slew to standard of Saracco B, feige34

• acqMODS feige34.acq, mods1r.20150210.0019-0020

08:54 execMODS feige34.obs mods1r.20150210.0021-0023

9:12 slew to Mignoli MOS22

• acqMODS mods.22.acq mods1r.20150210.0024-0027

09:30 configuration LBC red channel

09:48 run dofpia, /X2, /first, /redonly

09:52 execMODS mods22.4.obs mods1r.20150210.0028-0031

• the script stop during the offset: 'ERROR:RED go EXPOSURE ALREADY IN PROGRESS'
• we retry the acquisition but the problem persists
• problem resolved but we have lost time about 30 m

09:55 run 4_MOS22_Y.ob

10:39 run 5_MOS22_z.ob

10:47 we need to run dofpia

10:56 we run 5_MOS22_z.ob again

11:18 every mods spectra are not good due to initial error in the offset.

11:24 acqMODS mods22.acq mods1r.20150210.0032-0035

• execMODS mods22.4.obs mods1r.20150210.0036-0039
• run dofpia

11:29 run 5_MOS22_z.ob again

12:07 run dofpia

12:11 run 6_MOS22_i.ob

12:34 execMODS mods22.5.obs mods1r.20150210.0040-0041

12:50 run dofpia

• run 7_MOS22_r.ob last files in twilight

13:18 starting sky flat with LBC-R

• Y filter
• i filter mostly saturated

14:00 bias LBC

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