INAF queue observing, 2018 June 25-26

Observer: A. Rossi
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Support Astronomer: O. Kuhn (on call)
Instrument: LUCI

Summary

We gave 2 hrs at the beginning of the night to LBTO to solve AGW problems: loosing on large offsets, some software problem At the sunset the sky is clear
instruments: MODS2 red grating is not working well
Night duration (12\xB0 el twilight) 3:35- 11:10 UT = 7 h 35m

Important : guiding with LUCI1 needs to abort the pause for collimation when the TiO says collimation is ok.

• This happens for every active preset, i.e. beginning of a script. You do this on telsvc gui

Observing time: h m (%)

Weather time loss: h m (%)

technical time loss * *(9%) but if we count for 50% LUCI1 images useless, it is another 10%

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes
STD	BRI2202	LUCI1+2	ima,H2,Ks			per Moscadelli
STD	Feige110	MODS1	red grating		mods1r.20180626.0014-0016	per Caccianiga
Moscadelli	G01268	LUCI1+2	ima,H2,Ks			we toke more images, because 50% of LUCI1 and 10% on LUCI2 look not well collimated, show elongated or double stars, check but should be completed
CALIBRATIONS		MODS1	red grating			Caccianiga
CALIBRATIONS		MODS1	dualgrating			imaging flats, maybe useful
CALIBRATIONS	Dome Flats	LUCI1+2	H2, Ks			Per Moscadelli
Caccianiga	GB6J001307 +205335	MODS1	red grating	2400/3600	mods1r.20180626.0005-0008	completed PI confirmed

Details

3:00-5:00 UT LBTO work on AGW3

5:00 UT Configure LUCI1+2 We start with Moscadelli program

5:10 UT Slew to standard for Msocadelli. FS140 is too close to the Moon (6 deg, saturates). Use FS149. TO does collimation.

5:17 UT send FS149_H2_bino DO NOT USE THIS STANDARD BUT THEONE AT THE END!

• seeing 0.7" on guider
• even without tracking looks not always fine, especially in LUCI1. Shows elongations. enough for calibration.
• luci1.0014-18 , luci2.0013-17
• 5:28 UT send FS149_K_bino
• same as above
• but I plan to take another one at end of the night.
• luci1.0019-23 , luci2.0018-22

5:32 UT slew to G01268 Moscadelli program

• first H2 filter
• luci1.0024-28 , luci2.0023-27
• seeing 0.7" on guider
• on luci 1 stars look elongated, a bit on luci2 too. STart a script with half NDIT, double offsets.
• luci1.0029 , luci2.0028 aborted wrong preset
• luci1.0030-42 , luci2.0029-43
• seeing 0.8" on guider
• luci2 ok, luci1 still shows nord-sud elongation, or double stars sometimes
• seeing 0.6" on guider
• last 2 luci1 images much better luci1.0040-42
• 7:01 lost preset * 5 min loss*
• sent again from where we stopped
• luci1.0043-48 , luci2.0044-47
• luci1.0046 and so on is better, maybe useful? check with PI
• 7:21 lost preset * 20 min loss*
• 7:40 send again from where we stop
• luci1.0049-54 , luci2.0048-53
• LUCI1 ok from luci1.0050
• seeing 1.0" on guider at 7:46

* Ks filter

• 8:01
• luci1.0055-64 , luci2.0054-63 luci1.55 triangle stars, after 56 are ok, 63 64 are bad
• LUCI2 59-63 ecc are bad
• send again need 4 offsets more with good images
• luci1.0065-71 , luci2.0064-70 nothing good on boths sides!
• send again but with fainter guiding star
• picked diffenrent guiding stars due to crowded field, luci1 may be few arcsec offset
• luci1.0072-81 , luci2.0071-80
• seeing 1.1" on guider at 8:30
• luci2 is ok now, maybe fainter guider helped, maybe reset collimaiton , who knows
• just luci2 74 and 75 are bad, luci 1 always elongated maybe ok
• 8:35 * 5 min loss* tried to reset optics, then continue from where we stop
• seeing 1.2" on guider at 8:40
• now they look fine.finished with Ks filter

8:48 send H2 filter again

• need other 10 H2 filter at least to get good enough exposures (48 offsets summing both sides to get 2 hrs recquested, with this NDIT halved )
• luci1.0082-88 , luci2.0080-87
• seeing 0.9" on guider at 8:53
• we are very low, seeing jumps between 1.1 and1.4 after image luci1.85 and luci2.84
• got enough good images, in total we should have 2 hours on H2filter

9:15 UT slew to standard BRI2202

• pointing problem, restart GCS on luci1 5 min loss
• first H2 filter
• luci1.0089-93 , luci2.0088-92
• 9:30 Ks filter
• luci1.0094- , luci2.0093-

9:36 switch to MODS

9:56 UT slew to Caccianiga GB6J001307 +205335

• seeing 1.1" on guider
• acq mods1r.20180626.0002-0004
• 10:08 spec mods1r.20180626.0005-0008
• seeing 0.9" on guider, clear continuum in the spectra
• run again script at 10:46, took 1 exposure, we move to std
• seeing 0.8" on guider at 10:50

10:59 Slew to STD Feige110

• acq mods1r.20180626.0009-0013
• 11:13 spec mods1r.20180626.0014-0016

MODS1 CALIBRATIONS for Caccianiga

• ==mods1r.20180626.0017-0022==slitflats 1.2 red grating
• mods1r.20180626.0023-0027 grpixflats red grating
• mods1r.20180626.0029-0031 slitflats 5 red grating
• mods1r.20180626.0032-0046 imflats dual grating, you never know

*LUCI1+2 CALIBRATIONS

• luci1.0112-122 , luci2.0111-121 H2 flats, first 5 are darks to discharge
• luci1.0123-131 , luci2.0122-130 Ks flats , first 5 are darks to discharge

-- %USERSIG{AndreaRossi - 2018-06-26}%

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