Director's Time/E-Time (0.25/0.75)

Observers: B.Rothberg, O. Kuhn (Tucson)

ISA: B.Rothberg (Tucson)
Telescope Operator: G.Bechetti (LBTO)
AO Support: J.Christou
Telescope Support: J.Urban (LBTO)
Software Support: C.Baddick
Instrument Support: E.Solheid (LBTO)
Engineering Support: M.Gusick

Summary

Split night.

D-time UT 03:30-04:30; 07:00-10:00

Details

UT 02:13 - PEPSI testing

UT 02:20 - Taking test dark exposures (4sec #1-5)

UT 02:27 - Darks (30sec #6-10)

UT 02:33 - Dark (300sec #11)

UT 02:40 - Darks (10x5sec #12)

UT 02:43 - Darks (10sec #13-17)

UT 03:34 - Switching to LUCI-1 on SX

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UT 03:36 - Rothberg_2015A_2 Target SDSSJ1045+3519 - Double AGN

UT 03:48 - Slewing to target

UT 03:51 - 0.7"-0.8" WFS/GCS Airmass 1.04

UT 04:03 - Sciencing started GCS 0.64" (#22-25)

UT 04:26 - Seeing 0.8"-0.9" - switching to imaging - 30" dice-5 dither (#26-30)

UT 04:38 - Standard Photometric Star S9142 (Ks) - Airmass 1.011 (#31-35)

UT 04:54 - Telluric Star HIP_55627 - Airmass 1.029

UT 05:07 - integrating on telluric (#43-44)

UT 05:13 - Completed Dual-AGN target

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UT 07:17 - LUCI-1 SW was restarted after brief test with LUCI-2SW - running test darks (#45-47)

UT 07:56 - Switching to Science w/parallel engineering tests. Rothberg_2015A_1 - FF1542+3242

UT 08:06 - #50-51 acq images

UT 08:16 - sciencing started 0.6" GCS

UT 08:34 - High winds

UT 08:42 - Only got two exposures (#58-59) - closed due to annoyingly high winds (BOOOOO!)

UT 08:51 - blind filters in, mirror and N3.75 - leaving 0.75" slit in FPU (to avoid extraneous MOS moves)

UT 09:36 - LUCI Cals - 1.5" flats and arcs (#60-83)

UT 09:57 - Blind filters in, mirror grating and N3.75 camera, 1.5" slit in FPU (to avoid extraneous MOS moves)

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