-- FeliceCusano - 19 Apr 2022

INAF queue observing, 2022 Apr 18 - Apr 19

Observer: A. Cardwell
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Astronomers from Italy: Felice Cusano, Simona Paiano (Ester Marini)
Instrument: LUCI

Summary

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation these observations have been performed by LBTO personel
through the indications of LBT Italian observers (F. Cusano, A. Rossi, S. Paiano and E. Marini) connected from Italy.

At the sunset the sky is cover by clouds. We start with bino LUCI and backup programs. We can not use PEPSI for maintenance.
LBCB is offline due to some problems.

Night duration (12 degree - twilight) 02:55 - 11:55 UT = 9 h 00 m
Observing time: 5 h 18 min (59%)*
Weather time loss: 3 h 42 min (41%)*
Technical time loss: 0 h 00 min (0%)*

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes
Calibration
Palazzi	HIP42853	LUCI1-2	zj-HK			telluric Palazzi
Palazzi	SLSN2020abjc	LUCI1-2	zJ	1.2h+1.2h		4 exp more for clouds, seeing~1"
Palazzi	SLSN2020abjc	LUCI1-2	Hk	1.3h+1.3h	luci1.20220419.0050.fits-luci1.20220419.0091.fits /luci2.20220419.0050.fits-luci2.20220419.0091.fits	seeing has been slowly degrading (up to 1.5"), 4 exp more for clouds
Palazzi	SLSN2020abjc	LUCI1-2	J, H imaging		luci1.20220419.0092.fits-luci1.20220419.0119.fits / luci2.20220419.0092.fits-luci2.20220419.0119.fits	High cloudiness!!
Izzo	SN2022gnz	LUCI1-2	J, H imaging	0.35h+0.35h	luci1.20220419.0120.fits-luci1.20220419.0144.fits / luci2.20220419.0120.fits-luci2.20220419.0144.fits	(12 exp in J and 13 exp in H) seeing=1.5"-2"
Calibration		LUCI1-2	domeflat H+J fraternal
Calib-Palazzi		MODS1-2	dual-arcs
Calib-Palazzi		MODS1-2	dual-slitless
Calib-Palazzi		LUCI1-2	flats-arcs HK200-1"-fraternal
Calib-Palazzi		LUCI1-2	flats J H - fraternal
Calib-Palazzi		MODS1-2	dual-flat 1.2"
Calib-Piconcelli		LUCI1-2	flatarcs-zJ200-lambda1p17 fraternal
Calib-Piconcelli		LUCI1-2	flatarcs-HK200-lambda1p93 fraternal
Calib-Polletta		LUCI1-2	flatarcs- id963032 fraternal
Calib-Mannucci		MODS1-2	flats 0.6"

Detailed log by Andrew Cardwell at this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RpUVZNyZEMjSV9DEGCoaoz0-LwTJS2rG/view?usp=sharing

Notes

INAF queue observing, 2022 Apr 19 - Apr 20

Observer: A. Cardwell
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Astronomers from Italy: Andrea Rossi, Simona Paiano (Ester Marini)
Instrument: LUCI

Summary

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation these observations have been performed by LBTO personel
through the indications of LBT Italian observers (F. Cusano, A. Rossi, S. Paiano and E. Marini) connected from Italy.

At sunset the sky is clear but high wind guts keep us closed. We can not use PEPSI for maintenance.
LBCB is recovered.

Night duration (12 degree - twilight) 02:55 - 11:55 UT = 9 h 00 m
Observing time: 1 h 0 min (%)*
Weather time loss: 8 h 0 min (%)*
Technical time loss: 0 h 0 min (%)*

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes
Calibration	Darks	LUCI1-2				for Piconcelli, Polletta, Palazzi, Izzo
Izzo	SN2021ymj	LUCI1-2	J, H imaging	h+h	luci1.20220420.0206.fits-luci1.20220420.0218.fits / luci2.20220420.0071.fits-luci2.20220420.0083.fits	seeing=1.5" and improved during the observation - some clouds at the beginning of the observation

Detailed log by Andrew Cardwell at this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EauUmXR8M6G-zG5pjDQTTZXQO4Yl7cjU/view?usp=sharing

Notes

INAF queue observing, 2022 Apr 20 - Apr 21

Observer: A. Cardwell
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Astronomers from Italy: Simona Paiano - Ester Marini, Andrea Rossi
Instrument: LUCI

Summary

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation these observations have been performed by LBTO personel
through the indications of LBT Italian observers (F. Cusano, A. Rossi, S. Paiano and E. Marini) connected from Italy.

At the sunset the sky is clear. The wind is lower (with respect to the previous night) but we still have some wind gusts. We can open but we have limitation about the direction of pointing. We switched to LBCs at ~6:30UT.

Night duration (12 degree - twilight) 02:55 - 11:55 UT = 9 h 00 m
Observing time: 8h 40 min (96%)*
Weather time loss: 0h 5 min (1%)*
Technical time loss: 0h 15 min (3%)*

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes
Izzo	SN2022ewv	LUCI1-2	J, H imaging	1.2h/1.2h	luci1/2.20220421.0001-0036.fits	seeing ~ 0.8-0.7"
Izzo	SN2022gnz	LUCI1-2	J, H imaging	1.0h/1.0h	luci1/2.20220421.0037-0072.fits	seeing ~ 0.7"
Telluric	HIP68868	LUCI1-2	G200 HKspec 1"		luci1/2.20220421.0073-0075.fits	for Piconcelli
Piconcelli	A6 - J1433	LUCI1-2	HKspec	1.2/1h	luci1/2.20220421.0084-0093.fits	seeing ~0.7" completed
Vito	J1641+3755	LBC1-2	g+i	0.7+0.7/2+2h		1.5 times 3rd script, but seeing>1" for half script
Rossi	AT2022cmc	LBC1-2	ugriz	0.36h+0.30h		DIMM 1.5-2"
Rossi	GRB220403B	LBC1-2	r+z	0.3+0.3h		DIMM ~1.5-2"
Rossi	GRB220408A	LBC1-2	r+z	0.15+0.15h		DIMM ~1.2-1.5"
Vito	J1641+3755	LBC1-2	g+i	0.25+0.25h		seeing ~1"
Giunta	Twilight_Field	LBC1-2	griz	0.04h per filter

Detailed log by Andrew Cardwell at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TCMgVWKRk7g6scDKGFrd8tg6bigb1qhL/view?usp=sharing

Notes

INAF queue observing, 2022 Apr 21 - Apr 22

Observer: A. Cardwell
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Astronomers from Italy: Felice Cusano, Ester Marini
Instrument: LBC

Summary

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation these observations have been performed by LBTO personel
through the indications of LBT Italian observers (F. Cusano, A. Rossi, S. Paiano and E. Marini) connected from Italy.

At the sunset the sky is clear. The wind is at limit for opening (~18 m/s).
We can open, but we have limitation about the direction of pointing. We can not point to the south so we can not perform the LUCI1-AO program. We start with LBC.

Night duration (12 degree - twilight) 02:55 - 11:55 UT = 9 h 00 m
Observing time: 5h 10min (58%)*
Weather time loss: 3h 50min (42%)*
Technical time loss: 0h 0min (0%)*

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes
Calibration	sky flat	LBC-Bino				U,B-Bessel-V,I-Bessel
Nardiello - Cadelano	NGC5024	LBC-Bino	B-Bessel-I-Bessel	0.75h+0.75h		BI-1, 2, 3 done
Nardiello - Cadelano	NGC5024	LBC-Bino	U-Bessel-V-Bessel	1.12h+1.12h		UV-1,2 done; some thin clouds during UV-2
Vito	J1641	LBC-Bino	g-i sloan	0.33h/1h		seeing out of the requirement (1.2-1.4"), need to be redone
Rossi	grb220403B	LBC-Bino	r+z sloan	0.3h+0.3h		seeing~1.3"
Rossi	grb220408A	LBC-Bino	r+z sloan	0.16h+0.16h		seeing ~ 1.1"-1.4", 10 to 20 exposures done, we stopped due to wind

Detailed log by Andrew Cardwell at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BlOW9Ty08HJzceCtomKvUSkgpZQbu2cZ/view?usp=sharing

Notes

INAF queue observing, 2022 Apr 22 - Apr 23

Observer: A. Cardwell
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Astronomers from Italy: Andrea Rossi, Felice Cusano
Instrument: LBC

Summary

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation these observations have been performed by LBTO personel
through the indications of LBT Italian observers (F. Cusano, A. Rossi, S. Paiano and E. Marini) connected from Italy.

At the sunset the sky is clear. High wind with guts above 30 m/s prevent us to open.

Night duration (12 degree - twilight) 02:55 - 11:55 UT = 9 h 00 m
Observing time: 0h 0min (0%)*
Weather time loss: 9h 0min (100%)*
Technical time loss: 0h 0min (0%)*

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes

Detailed log by Andrew Cardwell at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QCX6RBmKIMHN1czCPb9cum6hMxy8efHa/view?usp=sharing

Notes

INAF queue observing, 2022 Apr 23 - Apr 24

Observer: A. Cardwell
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Astronomers from Italy: Felice Cusano, Ester Marini
Instrument: LBC

Summary

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation these observations have been performed by LBTO personel
through the indications of LBT Italian observers (F. Cusano, A. Rossi, S. Paiano and E. Marini) connected from Italy.

At sunset the sky is clear. We do not have internet connection to the mountain as the high wind of yesterday damaged the microwave antenna.
For this reason we can not do LUCI-AO observations as there is no AO support. The support astronomer A. Cardwell is driving to the mountain to perform regular observations with LBC. We start with LBC-bino.

Night duration (12 degree - twilight) 02:55 - 11:55 UT = 9 h 00 m
Observing time: 9h 00min (100%)*
Weather time loss: 0h 00min (0%)*
Technical time loss: 0h 00min (0%)*

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes
Calibration	flat fields	LBC-Bino				r+r
Palazzi	SLSN2020abjc	LBC-Bino	ug+ri			completed
Nardiello	NGC5024	LBC-Bino	U-Bessel + V-Bessel	1.68h+1.68h		UV-3,4,5 done, fwhm~1-1.2",~0.8-1" (UV-5), for UV-5 see notes b
Nardiello	NGC5024	LBC-Bino	B-Bessel + I-Bessel	0.5h+0.5h		BI-4,5 done, seeing~0.8"(BI-5),~1"(BI_4), for BI-5 see note a
vito	J1641	LBC-Bino	g+i sloan	0.5h+0.5h		seeing~0.8-1", 1.2" from 2/3 part of the observation to the last two exposures when it was ~1"
Nardiello	NGC6341	LBC-Bino	B-Bessel + I-Bessel	0.5h+0.5h		BI-1,2 done but in BI-1 seeing very unstable, from 1.1" to 1.5", ~0.8" in BI-2
Giunta	AO_I	LBC-Bino	g+i sloan	0.12h+0.12h		Slight jump in initial exposure, we repeated it
Giunta	AO_J	LBC-Bino	g+i sloan	0.09h+0.09h		excellent seeing
Nardiello	NGC6341	LBC-Bino	U-Bessel + V-Bessel	1.12h+1.12h		UV-1,2 done, seeing ~1" in UV-1 (satellite trail in lbcr.095806), ~0.8" in UV-2
Giunta	twilight field	LBC-Bino	g+i,r+z	0.13h+0.13h		we run the scrip twice and stopped at 50% of the second (20k background)
calibration	flat fields	LBC-Bino				r+z PA=0 PA=180

Detailed log by Andrew Cardwell at this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15GaSpu_ysCK2qjH-YKlDMhLlsLMe6GTJ/view?usp=sharing

Notes

a- Slight image jump in lbcb.20220424.060013 and lbcr.20220424.060011. Possibly due to TMS?

b- lbcb.063505 is trailed, Andrew and Steve believe it was a guiding (or more likely lack of guiding) issue, see the log for details.

INAF queue observing, 2022 Apr 24 - Apr 25

Observer: A. Cardwell
Telescope Operator: S. Allanson
Astronomers from Italy: Andrea Rossi, Ester Marini
Instrument: LUCI - LBC

Summary

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation these observations have been performed by LBTO personel
through the indications of LBT Italian observers (F. Cusano, A. Rossi, S. Paiano and E. Marini) connected from Italy.

At sunset the sky is clear.

Night duration (12 degree - twilight) 02:55 - 11:55 UT = 9 h 00 m
Observing time: 8h 40min (96.3%)*
Weather time loss: 0h 0min (0%)*
Technical time loss: 0h 20min (3.7%)*

Data Summary

Project_RUN	Objects	Instrument	Configuration	ExpTime /Time_tot	Images	Notes
Palazzi	SLSN2020abjc	LUCI1+2	J+H imaging	0.5hrs	luci1.0005-19,luci2.0005-19	FWHM<0.7" completed
Gilli	J1030 FRII	LUCI1+SOUL	Ks			FWHM on AOstar <~0.09"
Rossi	GRB211024B	LBC-Bino	r+z sloan	0.33h+0.33h		seeing~1" , a bit of trail in the first exp
Rossi	GRB211024B	LBC-Bino	g+i sloan	0.24h+0.24h		seeing~ we did 5/8 of the exp
Nardiello	NGC6341	LBC-Bino	B-Bessel + I-Bessel	0.75h+0.75h		BI-3,4,5 done seeing~1"; ~0.8" in BI-5
Nardiello	NGC6341	LBC-Bino	U-Bessel + V-Bessel	1.68h+1.68h		UV-3,4,5 done seeing~0.9", see note 3 (UV-3)
Giunta	twilight field - search morning_1-2-3	LBC-Bino	griz	0.09h+0.09h		seeing~1" in g, ~0.8" in i
Calibration	Flat fields	LBC-Bino	U_Spec+r			PA=0,
Calibration	Flat fields	LBC-Bino	r+r			PA=0,180

Detailed log by Andrew Cardwell at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zxtt9KKV2PHT_myRKyDAK3bk-uPoEOuR/view?usp=sharing

Notes

1-We keep seeing the BCG galaxy in all images except: Gilli LUCI1...67,75,85 should be discarded. Have a look also to images 20...23 maybe they are not good.

2-Rossi g+i: Jump in exposure lbcb.20220425.075210. No sign of a jump in the corresponding lbcr exposure.

3-Too few downloaded pixels error in lbcb.20220425.085441. The positions of chips 3 and 1 have been flipped in the readout, with the exception of the bottom few rows or each.