INAF queue observing, 2016 Jan 26-27

Observer: F. Cusano, A. Rossi
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Support Astronomer: Olga Kuhn
Instrument: LUCI/MODS

Summary

At the sunset the sky is clear.

Night duration (12\xB0 el twilight) 19:20-6:10 ( 02:20-13:10 UT) = 10 h 50m

Observing time: 8 h 50m (81%)

Weather time loss: 0 h (0%)

technical time loss 2 h 0m (19%)

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Darks			150,3ditx2ndit,3ditx4ndit,5ditx6ndit,6ditx4ndit	good for Antoniucci spec and ima
Sarracco	M004XLSms2	red-grating	1h	high seeing, check if ok on image
Guaita	M0717	H2	0.5h	completed
Guaita	M0717	Br_gam	0.5h	completed
Standard	P-161D	H2, Br_gam, Ks
Antoniucci	XZTau	zjspec,HKspec	1m	no telluric, useless!
Antoniucci	iptf15afq	redgrating	0.5h	MODS
Raimondo	UMaII _f1	r_sdss,U	0.5h
Marconi	IZw18	V, I	0.3h
Rossi	GRB151027A	r_sdss,z_sdss	1.15h
skyflats		V,I,r,z		for Marconi and Rossi, r,z only one PA angle

Details

00:26 starting with LUCI dark

• Antoniucci (150s) luci2.20160127.0001-005
• Antoniucci (imaging for EZTau,V1118,V1647,V2775) luci2.20160127.0006-025

1:53 we slew to Saracco

• the seeing at moment is 1.6" we try to acquire the field
• acqMods mods1r.20160127.0002-0004, seeing 1.5"
• execMods mods.4.XLSms2_5.obs mods1r.20160127.0005-0008
• seeing 1.5" at 2:10
• seeing 1.4" at 2:35
• seeing 1.2" at 2:40
• seeing 1.1" at 3:00

03:21 we swith to LUCI

3:40 we slew to Guaita H2 imaging

• seeing 0.9" on the guider at 3:40
• luci2.20160127.0026-55,
• seeing 0.8" on the guider at 3:42, 0.6" on image at 3:47
• seeing 0.6 on image at 4:10

4:26 we slew to P161-D standard for Guaita

• check guiding, problem scheduler restart, lost 10 min
• luci2.20160127.0056-0085
• seeing 0.7" on the guider at 4:34

05:00 we slew to Guaita Br_gam

• seeing 0.6" on the guider
• luci2.20160127.0086-115
• seeing 0.5" on image at 5:34

05:50 we slew to Antoniucci XZTau

• seeing 0.6" on the guider
• luci2.20160127.0116-0121

05:55 XZTau spectra

• acq luci2.20160127.0122-0125
• spec luci2.20160127.0126-129
• 130-132 not good
• 133-134 other two with zJspec
• spec luci2.20160127.0135-138 for HKspec with the right central wavelength (script is wrong! corrected manually)
• seeing 0.7" on guider at 06:15

06:20 XZTau telluric; script has wrong central wavelength, corrected manually

• problem with mask: mask position unknown!

*06:45 switch to Antoniucci MODS, target iptf15afq

• acqMods mods1r.20160127.0009-0012, seeing 1.5"
• seeing 1.3" at 07:05
• execMods iptf15afq.obs mods1r.20160127.0013-0016
• execMods iptf15afq.img mods1r.20160127.0017-0019 lost 5 min, problem wrong guiding star in the script
• seeing 1.2" at 07:50

07:55 we switch to LBC Raimondo

• dofpia
• we had problem with focus of LBC-R we corrected manually

09:05 we launch UMaII _f1_UBr.ob of Raimondo program

• moon at 61 deg
• seeing 1" on LBC-R at 9:12 on image
• seeing 0.7" on LBC-R at 9:20

09:54 slew to Marconi program

• dofpia
• lbcrangebal, problem with lbcrangebal and ds9, 15 min lost

10:19 starting IZw18_3.ob

• seeing 0.8"

10:34 starting IZw18_4.ob

• seeing 0.7"

11:00 slewing to Rossi GRB151027A

• dofpia
• copointing
• 11:10 start scientific ob, GRB151027A _rz_30m.ob
• seeing 1.2" LBC-r on image
• seeing 1.0 LBC-r at 11:30
• dofpia at 11:58
• 12:02 start again same ob
• seeing 1.1 LBC-r at 12:05
• seeing 1.2 LBC-r at 12:52
• star still round, run again same OB without dofpia
• seeing 1.4 LBC-r at 13:10 on image

13:31 starting sky flat

• V, I, r, z