INAF queue observing, 2017 Nov 24-25

Observer: F. Cusano, A. Gargiulo
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Support Astronomer: B. Rothberg
Instrument: LUCI, MODS, LBC

Summary

At the sunset the sky is clear.
We started with LUCI, but we had immediately a problem in the mask exchange of LUCI1, LUCI1 will be offline for the rest of the night. At 1:42 we switched to MODS.

Night duration (12\xB0 el twilight) 1:40am- 12:40pm UT = 11 h

Observing time: * *10h (89%)

Weather time loss: * *h (%)

technical time loss * *1h 10min*(11%)*

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
standard	Feige 110	MODS	dualgrating, red grating
Caccianiga	GB6J223554 +341737	MODS	red grating	1.17h x 2 (bino)	completed
Caccianiga	GB6J012126 +034646	MODS	red grating	0.3h x 2 (bino)	completed
Caccianiga	GB6J030251 +215510	MODS	red grating	0.33h x 2 (bino)	1 of 3
Antoniucci	RY Tau	LUCI AO	FeII, H, K	1.2h	completed
Psf Ao star	HD283634	LUCI AO	Fe II, H2 etc	6min	for RY Tau
Vanzella	jdz11	LUCI AO	Ks	1h
Vanzella SL	cal	LUCI	Ks	5min
Annibali R17	CGCG087	LBC	g; r	0.66h	2 of 3 obs
Flat		LUCI AO	FeII, H2, Ks, K, H, OH1060		N30 camera
MODS calib		MODS	dual and red grating

Details

1.05 slew to standard HD 228448

• LUCI1 mask exchange does not work, error message on the mask of LUCI1
• the SA and D. Thompson are trying to solve the problem

01:42 Switch to MODS, problem with LUCI is persisting

02:02 slewing to Feige 110

• acqBinoMODs mods1r.20171125.0002-3 ; mods2r.20171125.0002-3
• 02:09 execBinoMODS, dual grating mods1r.20171125.0004-6, mods1b.20171125.0002-4 ; mods2r.20171125.0004-6,mods2b.20171125.0002-4
• red grating mods1r.20171125.0007-9 ; mods2r.20171125.0007-9
• seeing 0.6" on guider at 02:29

02:31 slewing to Caccianiga GB6J223554 +341737

• acqBinoMODS
• 02:35 problem in pointing, cancelling the preset, the TO is checking the pointing
• 02:37 again acqBinoMODS mods1r.20171125.0010-13 ; mods2r.20171125.0010-13

02:52 execBinoMODS GB6J223554 +341737.obs

• seeing on guider 0.6" at 2:53
• mods1r.20171125.0014-16 ; mods2r.20171125.0014-16
• seeing 0.6" on guider at 4:00

04:10 slewing to Caccianiga GB6J012126 +034646

• acqBinoMODS mods1r.20171125.0017-19 ; mods2r.20171125.0017-19

04:22 execBinoMODS GB6J012126 +034646.obs

• mods1r.20171125.0020-22 ; mods2r.20171125.0020-22
• seeing 0.7" on guider at 04:22

04:46 slewing to Caccianiga GB6J030251 +215510

• acqBinoMODS GB6J030251 +215510.acq mods1r.20171125.0023-25 ; mods2r.20171125.0023-25

04:58 execBinoMODS GB6J030251 +215510.obs

• mods1r.20171125.0026 ; mods2r.20171125.0026
• seeing 0.6" on guider at 05:00

05:22 the seeing is stable and very good (0.6-0.7"), we decided to performe LUCI-AO observations using LUCI2, we switch to LUCI2

05:40 executing Antoniucci LUCI-AO target RY Tau, ob ry_luci2.xml

• seeing 0.6 on guider" at 05:43
• 5:49 problem with the optical gain; problem solved at 5:56
• 6:05 the loop is open, problem solved at 06:16
• 6:24 loop opens, 6:25 started again
• estimated mag by AO system 9.9 mag, 2x2 Binning, freq 990.98 Hz

07:52 psf standard Antoniucci, HD283634

• binning 2x2,

08:14 slewing to Vanzella program LUCI-AO, ob VanzellaOBLuci2.xml

• ref AO stars 13.3 mag, binning 3x3
• 8:15 pointing problem, checking
• 8:20 started again
• 8:41 loop opens, pausing the script. Started again at 8:43
• 8:51 loop opens, pausing the script
• 8.55 problem with optical gain and NCPA. Test acquisitions with NCPA OFF for the 191.fits. The image quality is comparable to the previous images, so we continue with NCPA OFF to have the loop stable.
• fwhm on ref star 0.12"

09:08 sending the script again VanzellaOBLuci2.xml

09:43 sending the script again VanzellaOBLuci2.xml

• fwhm on of a field star star 0.15"

10:13 seeing limited script of Vanzella, obs VanzellaOBLuci2.xml

10:24 switch to MODS, Grazian I

10:35 problem in the reconfiguration of MODS, secondary probelm, D. Miller is working on it, problem persisting we can not use MODS2, 11:22 switching to LBC

11:22 switching to LBC

11:36 slewing to Annibali 17, CGCG087

• dohybrid
• lbcrangebal

11:49 exec CGCG087_1.ob

• dimm seeing 0.75" at 11:50
• seeing 0.78" on images at 11:58

12:17 exec CGCG087_2.ob

• seeing 0.8" on images at 12:29

12:47 end of the night

13:03 starting LUCI2 calibrations (lamp on lamp off sequence)

• N30 Flat, FeII, luci2.20171125.0260-269
• N30 Flat, H2, luci2.20171125.0270-279
• N30 Flat, H, luci2.20171125.0280-289
• N30 Flat K, luci2.20171125.0290-299
• N30, Flat Ks, luci2.20171125.0300-309
• N30, OH_1060 luci2.20171125.0313-322

13:04 starting calibration for MODS

• flat for standard star - red garting: execMODS --mods1(2) slitflats_5as_r(_mods2).cal mods1r.0027-29 ; mods2r.0036-38
• arc for standard star/science - dual grating: execMODS --mods1(2) grlamps(_mods2).cal mods1r.0030-32, mods1b.005-7 ; mods2r.0039-41, mods2b.0008-10
• arc for standard star/science - red grating: execMODS --mods1(2) grlamps_r(_mods2).cal mods1r.0033-35 ; mods2r.0042-44
• flat for science - dual grating: execMODS --mods1(2) slitflats_1as(_mods2).cal mods1r.0036-41, mods1b.008-13 ; mods2r.0045-50, mods2b.0011-16
• flat for science - red grating: execMODS --mods1(2) slitflats_1as_r(_mods2).cal mods1r.0042-44 ; mods2r.0051-53