INAF queue observing April

Observer: E. Sani, M. Faccini, A. Bongiorno
Telescope Operator: S. Anderson, D. Gonzales-Huerta
Support Astronomer: M. Edwards, D. Thompson
Instrument: LBC - MODS - LUCI img

March 31 - April 1

Cirrus above the orizon (W) at beginning of the operations, with low wind. The initial seeing is 0.7 on the GCS.
During the night the average seeing is 1.0 and the sky does remain mostly clear.
After ~15min of the 8th exposure for the program Annibali_23A, we have a shell RIP of the secondary mirror. While the telescope is tracking, the WFS does not work, we thus pause the script. When the TO solves the problem, we are authorized to resume the script. We verify the shell RIP did not affect the scientific frame.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Antoniucci DDT	HH34	H	6min	COMPLETE
Antoniucci DDT	HH34	FeII	8min	COMPLETE
Standard	Feige56	dual	-	airmass 1.4
Standard	Feige34	dual - red	-	airmass 1.04
Annibali 23A	NGC4449	dualgrating	6h	-
Standard	HZ44	dual	-	airmass 1.3

April 1 - April 2

At the beginning of the night we have thin sky conditions with 50% humidity and wind average speed 10 m/s. Seeing is at 0.8/0.9
At the beginning of the scientific operations the average seeing on the GCS is 0.9.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Standard	PG0823	dual	-	airmass 1.08
Fritz_04D	GG190	dual	3h20min	COMPLETE
Annibali_23A	NGC4449	dual	1h30min	the last 45min are affected by bad seeing and thick clouds passing. To be repeated.
Covino_10	CXOJ1348+26	dual	2h	average seeing within the specs. Moon illumination 60% at 80deg from the target

April 2 - April 3

At the beginning of the twilight we have clear (close to photometric) sky, with 30% humidity and low wind.
Poor seeing, 1.5, at the beginning of the night operations.
The seeing gets better during the first scientific program, with an average value of 1.0 in both channel.
From 9.00UT the seeing is extremely variable, ranging from 1.0 to 1.5.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Standard	SA98	U-Special, B-Bessel, g-Sloan, V-Bessel, r-Sloan, I-Bessel	-	airmass 1.3
Giallongo_27E	CLJ1120	g-Sloan, r-Sloan	1h
Grazian_30A	GOODS-North	U-spec, r-Sloan	2h
Brocato_32D	Ursa Minor dwarf	B-Bessel, V-Bessel - U-special, I-Bessel	15 min - 45 min
Brocato_32C	Draco dwarf	B-Bessel, V-Bessel - U-special, I-Bessel	10 min - 32.5 min

April 3 - April 4

At the beginning of the twilight we have sky with cirrus on the horizon south-west, with 43% humidity and low wind (8-10 m/s).
Good seeing, 1.1, at the beginning of the night operations.
The seeing gets worse during the first scientific program, with an average value of 1.6 in both channels. We thus switch to MODS
Communication problems with M2. The TO needs to calls Doug Miller. After 25 min of efforts by Doug and Runa Briguglio, we are notified that there is no hope to fix the problem in a reasonable time. We thus decide to switch back to LBC.
The seeing gets better after the second switch and stabilizes around 1.0, decreasing till 0.6.
During the Brocato observation there was elongation in the blue channel. Some dofpia reduce the problem for the B images

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Giallongo_27E	CLJ1120	g-Sloan, r-Sloan	0.5h	Bad seeing. To redo
Grazian_30A	GOODS-North	U-spec, r-Sloan	3h	Seeing 1.0 or better
Brocato_DDT	Hercules	B-Bessel, r-Sloan - U-special, r-Sloan	17+12 min - 8 min	The first Br dataset has elongated images in the blue channel; we re-started it within the specs - to be completed

April 4 - April 5

At the beginning of the twilight we have a completely cloudy sky. The dome remains closed due to rain risk.
Forecasts for the night foreseen bad seeing and partly cloudy, we thus require to use MODS. The crew is using the dome-closed time to replace the BCU grating and run tests for M2.
At the beginning of scientific operations we have low wind, 20% humidity with thick stratified clouds.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Annibali_23A	NGC4449	dualgrating	45min	COMPLETE
Israel_DDT	CATS170113	dualgrating	2h	COMPLETE

April 5 - April 6

At sunset we have clear sky and wind gusts between 15 m/s and 20 m/s.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Nascimbeni_DDT	HAT-P-12	U-Special F972N20	2h43m30s blue 2h55m30s red	COMPLETED
Grazian30A	GOODS-North	U-scpec r-Sloan	30m

April 6 - April 7

At sunset we have thin clouds on the horizon, low wind and humidity at 37%.
During the first part of the night we have good seeing ~0.7 and thin cirrus, mostly on the horizon.
After 06.20 UT the sky is mostly clear, with thin cirrus remaining only at the SE horizon.
In the second part of the night we have completely clear sky and good seeing <1.0.

Project_RUN	Objects	Filter	ExpTime	Notes
Giallongo_27E	CLJ1120	g-Sloan r-Sloan	30min	within the seeing specs. thin cirrus passing
Standard	SA101	U-spec, B-Bessel, g-Sloan, I-, V-Bessel, r-Sloan		airmass 1.2
Grazian_30A	GOODS-North	U-spec r-Sloan	3h30min	within seeing specs
Standard	SA104	U-spec, B-Bessel, g-Sloan, I-, V-Bessel, r-Sloan		airmass 1.7
Brocato_32D	Ursa Minor Dwarf	U-spec I-Bessel; B-Bessel V-Bessel	45min; 15 min	COMPLETE

-- MarcoFaccini - 02 Apr 2013