Observer: E. Sani, M. Fumana
Telescope Operator: S. Anderson, D. Gonzales-Huerta
Support Astronomer: D. Thompson
Instrument: LBC+LUCI

February 14-15

Cirrus above the orizon (SW) at beginning of the night, with low wind and humidity. The initial seeing is 1.1 on the GCS.
During the first 4hrs both humidity and temperature go up and down, with some difficulties of the primary mirrors to thermalize.
Very thin cirrus passing.
During the night the average seeing is highly variable. See the attached plot as an example.
Good sky flats for the LBc Bin are taken during night 20130217.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Standard	SA98	B-Bessel, R-Bessel, U-Bessel, V-Bessel		airmass 1.46
Saracco DDT	Linx	B-Bessel, R-Bessel	2h	the seeing is out of the given specs
Saracco DDT	Linx	U-Bessel, V-Bessel	2h	20% of the images are expected with seeing close to the specs
Standard	SA101	B-Bessel, R-Bessel, U-Bessel, V-Bessel, U-special, r-Sloan		airmass 1.2
Grazian 30	GOODS-N	U-special, r-Sloan	2h30m	some frames are out of specs for the seeing
Standard	SA104	U-special, r-Sloan		airmass 1.5

February 15-16

At the beginning of night operations there are cirrus scattered over the South sky, with wind gusts at 12 m/s and low humidity.
At the end of the twilight there remain cirrus above the SW orizon, but the rest of the sky is almost clear. The wind is increasing with gusts at 20 m/s.
After 3h from the beginning of the observation the sky is clear.
During the night the average seeing experience huge variations, ranging between 0.8 and 2.
With LUCI we have defocusing during the MOS acquisition. Its origin is currently unknown, but, considering that the effect is small and appears only in the upper part of the mask combined with the bad seeing, it should not affect seriously the scientific frames.
Good sky flats for the LBC Bin are taken during night 20130217.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Standard	SA98	B-Bessel, R-Bessel, U-Bessel, V-Bessel		airmass 1.4
Saracco DDT	Linx	B-Bessel, R-Bessel	1h
Saracco DDT	Linx	U-Bessel, V-Bessel	1h
Standard	SA101	B-Bessel, R-Bessel, U-Bessel, V-Bessel
Standard	Hip 33836	HKspec,200_H+K
Zamorani_11	zCgr32	HKspec,200_H+K	3h 30m	50% of the frames are within the seeing specs
Standard	SA101	U-special, r-Sloan		airmass 1.2
Grazian 30	GOODS-N	U-special, r-Sloan	1h in both channels	sky and seeing conditions are within the specs

February 16-17

The sky is CLEAR at the beginning of the night, with very low humidity and low wind.
At the beginning of scientific integration the seeing on the DIMM is around 1.0.
The sky remains clear all night long.
During the night the seeing is around 1.0 or better.
LBC Bin sky flats taken during this night are good.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Nascimbeni_DDT	GJ3470b	U-special, FN971N20	3h35m	COMPLETE
Standard	SA101	B-Bessel, R-Bessel, U-Bessel, V-Bessel		airmas 1.2
Saracco_DDT	Lynx	U-Bessel, V-Bessel	1h
Standard	SA104	U-special, r-Sloan
Grazian_30A	GOODS-N	U-special, r-Sloan	2h	sky conditions and seeing within the specs

February 17-18

Thin cirrus above the South orizion at the beginning of the night, with low humidity and quite strong wing gusts ~15m/s.
Due to the high wind gusts at 4.00UT we have to close the dome.
The sky is clear when we open again the dome.
During the execution of the Grazian program we had an trackers error from the red side. The TO fixed it and the SA re-initialized the software.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Standard	SA101	B-Bessel, R-Bessel, U-Bessel, V-Bessel		airmas 1.2
Saracco_DDT	Lynx	B-Bessel, R-Bessel	1h	COMPLETE
Standard	SA104	U-special, r-Sloan		airmass 1.6
Grazian_30A	GOODS-N	U-special, r-Sloan	2h	sky conditions and seeing within the specs
Standard	SA101	U-special, r-Sloan		airmass 1.6
Standard	SA109	U-special, r-Sloan		airmass 1.4

February 18-19

During the late evening the sky is covered by very thick clouds. We execute LUCI calibrations
Problem with the red side door of the dome. Mike tries to open it manually from level 10
It is not possible to fix the problem, we observe with the blue-side alone

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Antoniucci_DDT	HH34	FeII	~24min	Interrupted: target close to wind dir
Zamorani_A1	Hip33836	HKspec
Zamorani_A1	zCgr32	HKspec	2.5h	Interrupted: guide star lost
LaFranca_A9	Hip061493	200HK/zJspec
LaFranca_A9	NGC4338	200HK/zJspec	45min	COMPLETE
Grazian_30A	GOODS-N	U-special	1h12min	Only blue channel
Standard	SA109	U-special

February 19-20

Dome closed at the begining of the night because of strong wind and dewpoint limit.
At 02:00UT it is snowing.
We have problems to insert the calibration unit in LUCI. We call the SA: a power lost during the day caused the lack of energy to the calibration unit. The SA fix it.
Error setting the MOS instrument. We call Dave. A slit mask got stuck, and the SA fix the problem.
The Dome remains closed all night long.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes

February 20-21

We stay close due to the snow.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes

-- EleanoraSani - 20 Feb 2013