INAF queue observing, 2018 Mar 20-21

Observer: R. Carini, A. Rossi
Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez-Huerta
Support Astronomer: B Rothberg on call
Instrument: MODS1+MODS2, LBC

Summary

At the sunset sky is mostly cloudy
instruments: all instruments work well, also MODS2 could works in MOS and imaging mode
Night duration (12\xB0 el twilight) 2:20am- 12:35pm UT = 10 h 15m

Observing time: *9h* (90%)

Weather time loss: h (0%)

technical time loss * *1.1h (11%)

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes
Calibrations	slitflat	MODS1+2	red only+blueonly			for Montalto
Calibrations	arc	MODS2	blue only			for Montalto
standard	feige34	MODS1+2	dual grating			for Antoniucci a Grazian
Antoniucci 8	XZtau	MODS1+2	dual grating	0.3/0.3h	mods1r.0019-0022, mods1b.0004-0007 ; mods2r.0010-0013, mods2b.0013-0016	spectroscopy completed
Grazian C	COSMOS5585	MODS1+2	dual grating ls1.2"	3/2h	mods1r.0027-0032, mods1b.0008-0013 ; mods2r.0018-0023, mods2b.0017-0022	completed took 1 hr more because of cirrus
Grazian J	COSMOS931	MODS1+2	dual grating MOS	2/8h	mods1r.0036-0039, mods1b.0014-0017 ; mods2r.0027-0030, mods2b.0023-0026	some cirrus during observations
standard	feige34	MODS1+2	dual grating,		mods1r.0042-0044, mods1b.0018-0020; mods2r.0033-0035, mods2b.0027-0029	for Antoniucci and Grazian
standard	feige34	MODS1+2	redonly(MODS1) +reonly+blueonly (MODS2)		mods1r.0045-0047; mods2b.0030-0032, mods2r.0036-0038	Prandoni e Caccianiga
Prandoni	USS1	MODS1+2	readonly (MODS1)+blueonly(MODS2)	40m/2h + 40m/2h	mods1r.0051-0052; mods2b.0036-0037	completed
Annibali R40	NGC5477	LBC-bin	red: r, blue:g	50 m		completed
Sky flats		LBC
Calibrations	arc and flats	MODS1+2	dual grating MOS and ls			Grazian J ,B,C
Calibration	slitless flats	MODS1+ MODS2	dual grating, red only, blue only

Details

Calibrations

Montalto

• flat mods2b.20180321.0001 QTH1+ND1.5 saturated
• mods2b.0002,0004,0007 ok texp=1 QTH1+UG5
• mods2b.0003,0005,0006 ok t exp=1s QTH1+ND1.5
• mods1r.0003-0006 QTH1+ND1.5

arc mods2b.0008-0009 Hg[Ar]

02:26 Slew to standard Feige34 for Antoniucci e Grazian

• acqBinoMODS feige34_ls.acq mods1r.20190321.0009-0011, mods2r.20190319.0002-0003
• DIMM seeing 1.5"
• execBinoMODS feige34_ls.obs mods1r.0013-0015, mods1b.0001-0003, mods2r.0004-0006, mods2b.0010-0012

02:52 Slew to XZtau for Antoniucci

• acqBinoMODS mods1r.20190321.0015-0018, mods2r.20190319.0007-0009
• execBinoMODS mods1r.0019-0022, mods1b.0004-0007, mods2r.0010-0013, mods2b.0013-0016
• seeing 0.6"-0.8", but partly cloudy

03:29 Slew to Grazian C mods 2r is working

• acqBinoMODS pointC_lsPA=-30.acq mods1r.20190321.0023-0026, mods2r.20190319.0014-0017
• 03:48 seeing 0.7-0.8" on guider, but passing clouds
• 03:52 execBinoMODS pointC_ls_1.obs mods1r.0027-0028, mods1b.0008-0009, mods2r.0018-0019, mods2b.0017-0018
• 04:28 execBinoMODS pointC_ls_2.obs mods1r.0029-0030, mods1b.0010-0011, mods2r.0020-0021, mods2b.0019-0020
• 04:32 seeing 0.9"-1.3" on guider, partly cloudy
• we estimate a0.5 mag extinction from the fact that we still see the Milky Way, thus we take another 50% of the total exposure
• 05:04 execBinoMODS pointC_ls_1.obs mods1r.0031-0032, mods1b.0012-0013, mods2r.0022-0023, mods2b.0021-0022
• 05:05 seeing 1" on guider, partly cloudy

05:41 Slew to Grazian J

• acqBinoMODS mods1r.20190321.0033-0035, mods2r.20190319.0024-0026
• 05:55 seeing 0.7-0.9" on guider, some cirrus
• 06:00 execBinoMODS pointJ_mos_1.obs mods1r.0036-0037, mods1b.0014-0015, mods2r.0027-0028, mods2b.0023-0024
• 06:36 execBinoMODS pointJ_mos_2obs mods1r.0038-0039, mods1b.0016-0017, mods2r.0029-0030, mods2b.0025-0026
• seeing 0.8" at 07:00, passing cirrus

07:10 Slew to standard Feige34 , dual grating, redonly MODS1+blueonly+redonly forMODS2

• acqBinoMODS mods1r.20190321.0040-0041, mods2r.20190319.0031-0032
• first dual grating for both (e.g. Grazian)
• seeing 1.2" at 07:20, passing cirrus
• 07:25 execBinoMODS feige34_ls mods1r.0042-0044, mods1b.0018-0020, mods2r.0033-0035, mods2b.0027-0029
• now redonly MODS1 ; blueonly+redonly for MODS2
• seeing 1.6" at 07:34, passing cirrus
• 07:39 execBinoMODS feige34_ls_red.obs feige34_ls_red_blue.obs mods1r.0045-0047, = mods2b.0030-0032, mods2r.0036-0038=

08:00 Slew to Prandoni USS1

• acq mods1r.0048-0050 mods2b.0033-0035
• sci mods1r.0051-0052 mods2b.0036-0037

09:20 switch to LBC, the sky is mostly clear and seeing about 0.8''-1.0''

09:40 Annibali program, target R26: NGC4162

• dohybrid, doesn't work., in the red image there are not stars.
• 09:50 TO starts again LBC control
• 09:54 dohybrid, but it doesn't work,
• we change target R27: UGCA276
• dohybrid
• try dofpia but does't work!!!! there are not stars in the images!!!!!!!
• 10:09 slew to R40
• dohybrid, the blue image is ok, the red one no, it is impossible to do the focus
• we send the copointg ob to understand if the red channel works
• there are problems in both channels, we turn off the LBC and turn on again
• SA send a quick test script, the blue image is ok, but the red one no
• SA try two more exposure with different filters but there is nothing in the red!!!

10:42 switch to LUCI, but the TO said us to wait because maybe he has found the error in LBC

• lbc red swing arm was off, the TO corrects it, and we stay on LBC

10:54 R40

• dohybrid
• 11:10 run copointing
• 11:14 run NGC5477_1.ob
• 11:20 seeing 0.9"
• 11:36 seeing jump to 1.2''-1.3''
• 11:40 seeing about 1.0''
• 11:41 dofpia
• 11:44 run NGC5477_2.ob
• 11:59 seeing about 0.8''
• 12:11 run NGC5477_3.ob; stars very round in all field
• 12:29 stop the integration, we have taken 4 images in blue and 4 in red, we consider the target completed together with yesterday observations
• 12:30 run NGC5477_calib.ob

Sky flats

MODS calib

• slit flat mods1r.0053-0054, mods1b.0021-0022, mods2r.0039-0040, mods2b.0038-0039 MOS flat for Grazian J
• arcs mods1r.0055-0060, mods1b.0041-0043, mods2r.0023-0025 mods2b.0040-0042 MOS arc dual grating for Grazian J
• slit flat mods1r.0060-0062, mods1b.0028-0030, mods2r.0046-0048, mods2b.0045-0047 slit 1.2" flat dual grating Grazian B,C
• arcs mods1r.00-00, mods1b.00-00, mods2r.00-00, mods2b.00-00 longslit arc dual grating Grazian B,C, Antoniucci
• slitless flat mods1r.0064-0067, mods1b.0031-0040, mods2r.0046-0053, mods2b.0048-0057 dual grating
• slitless flat mods1r.0068-0072 ==, ==mods2r.0054-0058 red grating
• slitless flat mods2.0058-0067 blue grating (MODS2)

-- %USERSIG{RobertaCarini - 2018-03-21}%

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