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

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