Night Plan UT 02 Jan 2021

Tasks/Programs

• LUCI-1 OSCO
• UDS z~10 Target - LUCI-1/ESM with LUCI-2/SL - 3 hours - program begins at end of twilight - 18:53-21:53
  • Observe Telluric first
  • (DIMM ~1.2" or better, thin clouds at most)
• LBTI ALES target observations of HD33632 - 3 hours - 22:00:01:00
  • (DIMM ~1.2" or better, clear, dry)
• Reconfigure for MODS-1/MODS-2 Blue - 01:10
  • Script Locations: /home/lbto/Service_Observing/D_E_Time_UT_Dec28_Jan_02/MODS_Checkout
    • Check rotator ZP duirng a MODS MOS acquisition (Stone fields) - High Priority - 20min per field - 2 field 01:10-01:50
      • Fields (MMS files in mms/ sub-directory):
        • Stone A - sets 10pm (only if science cannot be done)
        • Stone D1f - sets 2am (only if science cannot be done)
        • Sone E1f - sets 5am
        • Stone I - 3am-twlight
    • Check NS dithers 01:55-02:30?
      
      • In /home/lbto/Service_Observing/D_E_Time_UT_Dec28_Jan_02/MODS_NSdithers, there are 3 scripts for end-of-night target, Semele (V<~15), available from 2am to morning:
        • async.txt - grid of small async dithers
        • sync+async - large sync dither followed by an updatepointing and a grid of detxy abs dithers
        • sync+async_rel large sync dither followed by a grid of detxy rel dithers.
• Reconfigure for LBCs
  • LBC Technical Work - Medium Priority 02:50? onwards
    - O.Kuhn running Technical Work
    • focus offset checks - stable seeing (1" or better on DIMM) - 1.5hr
      • scripts in lbto@robs:~/Service_Observing_D_E_Time_UT_Dec28_Jan02/LBC_R_focus
      • check LBCR R focus, mainly.
        • Focus/collimate, then run superfoc at V+r, followed by a superfoc at [Us,B,g]+R, followed again by superfoc at V+r. Repeat 3x.
    • Gain/Linearity checks - 1hr (photometric conditions, but poor seeing OK)
      • scripts in lbto@robs:~/Service_Observing_D_E_Time_UT_Dec28_Jan02/LBC_Linearity
      • observe a star field with successively longer exposure times, so that a set of stars will have counts that range from 1000 ADU to saturation.
      • several star fields will be chosen, with published photometry (SDSS or other) so we can not only examine the linearity but check the sensitivity.
    • TMS: Run TMS in active mode while collecting a series of pupil images (dfoc = -0.8, Z4/Z11 as sent by fpia) - 2hr any conditions (if above can't be done)
    • Collect LBC Skyflats in the morning if clear

Poor Weather Backups

• ESM data collection
  • Scripts: /home/lbto/Service_Observing/D_E_Time_UT_Dec28_Jan_02/ESM_Testing
  • M52 (3 filters with bright and faint AO Ref star)
  • M67 (3 filters with bright and faint AO Ref star)
• ICRF3 Spectroscopy (Rothberg)
  • Scripts: /home/lbto/Service_Observing/Nov_Dec_2020_E_D_Nights/Poor_Weather/ICRF3_Rothberg_2020B
  • ICR5 93.24-13.51 Highest Priority - cycles through G210 K,H,J, and z (fraternal or mono)
    • sets at 3am
    • Target can sustain 2mags of extinction or more - uses 0.25" slit - J=12, H=9.5, K=7.2
  • Observe telluric first
  • Double Check high Dec objects to make sure telluric/science are close spatially
• If clear but poor seeing, please observe standard stars, cycling through z,J,H,K,Ks
  • Scripts: /home/lbto/Service_Observing/Nov_Dec_2020_E_D_Nights/Poor_Weather/LUCI_Phot_ZP
  • Select stars to use based on visibility - OT file is in directory, export the scripts as needed
  • Please observe the same star at least two times at different airmasses
• LBC-Red TMS observing in poor conditions
  • TMS: Run TMS in active mode while collecting a series of pupil images (dfoc = -0.8, Z4/Z11 as sent by fpia) - 2hr any conditions

Closed Dome Morning Cals

• UDS z~10 LUCI-Bino

Problems

• SX M3 failure after switching from LUCI to LBTI
• AGW6 WFS (MODS-2) non-responsive - rebooted AzCam serer - IT 7003 for troubleshooting
• MODS-2 Red warm