INAF queue observing, 2016 December 4 - 5
Observer: R. Carini, A. Marchetti
Telescope Operator: G. Bechetti
Support Astronomer: O. Kuhn on call
Instrument:
Summary
LUCI2 is not available
At sunset the sky is clear. There is wind coming from the north-east. We need to choose targets towards the south.
Night duration (12\xB0 el twilight) 18:10-6:00 ( 01:10-13.00 UT) =
11h 50m
Observing time:
9h 30m (80%)
Weather time loss:
0h 0m (0%)
technical time loss
2h 20m (20%)
Data Summary
Project_RUN |
Objects |
Filter |
ExpTime |
Notes |
Marziani B |
SDSS J0008-1039 |
H |
18m |
seeing very variable. taken the last two images to complete the target, plus one due to bad seeing. |
telluric Marzini B |
HIP1378 |
H |
|
|
Antoniucci |
ZXtau |
zj |
0.2 h |
miss HK filter and ima |
telluric Iovino |
HIP11809 |
HKspec |
|
|
Iovino |
M004XXLrev |
HKspec |
1 h |
last frame with 1.4 < airmass <1.43 and 0.85'' < seeing< 1.00'' |
telluric Antoniucci |
HIP30393 |
zj |
|
|
Castellano ob. 17 |
MACJ0717 |
Uspec, V |
COMPLETED |
Castellano ob. 18 |
MACJ0717 |
Uspec, V |
COMPLETED |
Castellano ob. 19 |
MACJ0717 |
Uspec, V |
COMPLETED, but seeing oscillating. CHECK |
photometric star |
SA101 |
blue:Uspec, g, red:V,r |
|
|
Bellazzini I |
1437+12.9 |
blue:g,red:r |
0.2h |
COMPLETED |
Bellazzini J |
147.0+07.1 |
blue:g,red:r |
0.2h |
COMPLETED |
photometric star |
SA104 |
blue:Uspec, g, red:V,r |
DAlessandro |
Pal14 |
1 image in blue, 3 in red, during twiligth |
CALIBRATION |
sky flats for LBC |
blue U_spec, g, red V, r |
CALIBRATION |
bias for LBC |
Details
MARZIANI B
01:10 We send the TELLURIC script for Marziani B target
- seeing about 1"
- acquisition
luci1.20161205.0001-0008
BAD spectra (there was a problem in the telluric acquisition script like yesterday: wrong combination of filters, with OH and H no light passes!)
-
luci1.20161205.0009-0010
good telluric spectra
- 01:30 seeing oscillating between 1.2" and 1,5"
01:38 we send the SCIENCE script for Marziani B target (only last two frames are needed to complete the target observation)
- acquisition
luci1.20161205.0011-0014
- 01:54 seeing about 1.5"
- 01:56 seeing 1.3"
- 01:58 we cannot see the target inside the slit in the confirmatory image, and subtracting one frame from another to see it is incredibly slow. It looks like it crashed, we stop it and kill the window. We lose the observer panel. We open it again. The alignment information was not lost.
- 02:01 we try again to subtract the sky to the thru-slit image. Now we see the target in the slit.
02:05 we take the target spectra
luci1.20161205.0015-0017
- 02:10the seeing is now 1.5", but it keeps oscillating between 1.2" and 1.8" in the last 10 minutes
- 02:22 the seeing is still oscillating between 1.2" and 1.8"
- we take an extra image because the seeing is very variable.
02:38 the seeing is very variable. we decide to run a backup target of Antoniucci
- begin the acquisition of the telluric for V512Cep, but the star is direct into the wind, even if the target is good.
- 02:41 reset the shell
02:45 acquire the target
XZtAu
- seeing 1.7 airmass 1.8
- 02:50 the TO hast to fix the collimation
- 02:59 send again the preset for XZtau
luci1.20161205.0018-0021
- 03:01 seeing 1''
03:10 begin science
luci.0022-0025
zj filter is OK
- the PI made a mistake in the script, images in HK filter are not good (luci.0026-0029).
03:23 the seeing is good and stable, we slew to Iovino target
- acquisition of telluric
luci.0030-0031
- seeing 0.85''
03:36 engineering problem about the alingment
- to fix the problem we have token some images with the AS with and without mask
luci.0032-0075
04:13 problem resolved, we send the preset again for the telluric.
- 04:14 the pointing is off, the TO fixes it.
04:17 we send again the telluric script 2015_2016_5_HK_tell_LUCI1.xml
- 04:28 seeing 0.9''-1.00''
- acquisition frames
luci.0076-0078
- science frames
luci.0079-00786
04:47 send the science script 2015_2016_5_HK_LUCI1.xml
- 04:51 problem: the mask can not move from the focus plane to the turnout position
- 05:10: fix the problem. the name of the mask in the script was wrong
05:11 send again the script 2015_2016_5_HK_LUCI1.xml
- seeing 0.7'''
- frames of acquisition
luci.0087-0090
- frames os science
luci.0091-009
- 06:01 seeing 0.8''
- 06:18 seeing 0.8''-0.9''
- 06:32 last image of the script taken with 1.4 < airmass < 1.43 but seeing 0.85''-1.00''
06:38 run the telluric for Antoniucci XZTau
- acquisition
luci1.0103-0105
- science
luci1.0106-0107
zj filter
- seeing 0.9'&
06:58 switch to LBC
- 07:12 problem with the switch. the telescope have problem with the balance.LBC in the beam let balance the telescope
08:07 problem fixed
- begin collimations
- 08:09* error : do not authorize the cameras
- 08:17* fixed the problem
08:07 problem fixed
- begin collimations
- 08:09* error : do not authorize the cameras
- 08:17* fixed the problem
08:20 begin again the collimation: dohybrid
- 08:26 copointing
- 08:31 run science: Castellano_MACSJ0717_UV_17.ob
- seeing 1.0'';
- 08:58 seeing 0.7'';
09:14 copointing
09:19 run science Castellano_MACSJ0717_UV_18.ob. Seeing 0.8'';
- 09:45 seeing 0.8'';
- 09:56 seeing 1.0'';
10:01 dofpia
10:07 run science Castellano_MACSJ0717_UV_19.ob. Seeing begins to be very variable, with picks up to 1.2"
- 10:26 seeing between 0.8'';-0.9'';
- 10:39 the wind blows NW, the same direction of our target. We have to change target
- during this ob the seeing has been very variable, the images should be checked one by one. Probably the first 8 images are not good
- 10:46 seeing 1.1'';
10:49 we switch to photometric star SA101. Technical problem: lost communication between host and tracker in the blue channel. We try to solve the problem sending the preset again
- 11:03 LBC got stuck. After calling the SA, we have to turn it off.
- 11:14 we turn off LBC
- 11:17 we turn on LBC again
- 11:22 we run SA101_Sg_Vr
11:35 seeing is good, < 1''; we slew to Bellazzini I
- 11:47 dofpia
- 11:55 copointing
11:59 run science of Bellazzini I. Seeing is about 0.7';
12:13 we slew to Bellazzini target J
- 12:14 dofpia. Seeing 0.7'';-0.8'';
- 12:18* copointing
12:23 send science for Bellazzini target J. Seeing is 0.7'';
*12:30 seeing 0.8'';-0.9'';
12:39 we slew to SA104 photometric star
12:49 we slew to D'Alessandro Pal4
12:51 dofpia
12:57 copointing
13:01 we send science for Dalessandro.
*13:09 we are in twilight, we took 1 image for the blue and 3 for the red and then stopped the script
13:11 we start taking sky flats, first gr, then SV. There are clouds coming in. The flats are taken with clouds
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