26 March 2011 LBC: continued testing with BP10 and checkout for science run ~1:30 John editing LBC header templates to match the latest master slave ones. CRPIX1,...
Testing LBC with BP10 Plan is to run some science observations to test LBC guiding under BP10. Two fields: LQG, SN09. OBs in home/LBTO/Calib_OBs/ASTRONtests * ...
March 14, 2011 Observers: J. Bechtold, D. Thompson, F. Bian, L. Jiang 2:25pm. Lights off in the dome. Started series of 900s darks for Linhua's observations ton...
Meeting Web Site http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/LBT%20Conference/index.html Organization * SOC: Fan (Chair), Green/Wagner, one STC rep from each partner...
Check your scripts with Steven's perl script. Download the latest version of the script checker, e.g. lucichk3.2.pl (version 3.2) from the Partner Observing Page....
How to put a star in the Lucifer Long Slits Here's the idea: * Your script takes two direct images offset from each other and you difference them, to either ...
To abort a Lucifer Script Type exit in the window you started the script in. or click on the big red ABORT! button on the ReadoutManagerGui to stop the curren...
To execute a Lucifer script 1. To start If your script is called myscript.txt Check the lower right corner of the Telescope Control window and select Wait for ...
Flush the Lucifer Detector If you went to bed and forgot to close up, or you observed a bright star, you may have to flush out the charge from the detector. * ...
Hopefully you checked your scripts at home with Steven's perl script, lucichk3.2.pl (or whatever the latest version is). You may also check your scripts on lucife...
March 13, 2011 Observers: J. Bechtold, D. Thompson, F. Bian, L. Jiang Cloudy all afternoon 6:50pm. Sun has set. Completely overcast. 7:05pm Started two 15 min...
How to set up scripts for direct imaging with LUCIFER 1. Find a guide star for your target. 2. Create a script for acquiring your target and running a dither...
Starting Up 1. Log on to obs2 as AZ, Click on Red LUCIFER icon to start guis if they aren't up from last night. password is written underneath the keyboard of ob...
Find a good guide star for your target. Read the Lucifer Observation Preparation Suggestions page. Pick a guide star for your target Use Olga's perl script, lucig...
January 5, 2011 Observers: Jill Bechtold, Dave Thompson Completely overcast all afternoon and at sunset. Not looking good for tonight! LUCIFER's mask moving mec...
March 12, 2011 LUCIFER 1 Mask exchanger failed yesterday morning. Germans worked on it all day, but do not know what is wrong. We decided to do only imaging ton...
Observers: Marie Rex, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Dave Thompson Too cloudy for twilight sky flats. 0.6" seeing. Taking test images with Br gamma filter detector looks sa...
Observers: Marie Rex, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Dave Thompson Clear, seeing .4 .5" 7:30 pm (2:30 UT) start 2 hours of H band science observations of MACS 0717 (Rex) Stil...
Night Logs from 2010 28 30 Dec 2010 UT LUCIFER/LBC Science Prep (combined, mostly bad weather). 01 Nov 2010 UT LUCIFER/LBC Science Prep. 31 Oct 2010 UT LUCIFER/...
INAF LBC LUCIFER queue observing, 2011 February 03 04 Observer: K. Boutsia, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: S. Allanson Support Astronomer: O. Kuhn Instrume...
INAF LBC LUCIFER queue observing, 2011 February 02 03 Observer: K. Boutsia, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: S. Allanson Support Astronomer: O. Kuhn Instrume...
INAF LBC LUCIFER queue observing, 2011 January 31 February 01 Observer: K. Boutsia, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: S. Allanson Support Astronomer: D. Thomps...
INAF LBC LUCIFER queue observing, 2011 February 01 02 Observer: K. Boutsia, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: S. Allanson Support Astronomer: O. Kuhn Instrume...
INAF LBC LUCIFER queue observing, 2011 January 30 31 Observer: K. Boutsia, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: S. Allanson Support Astronomer: D. Thompson Instru...
LBT SW Testing and Range Balancing: UT 2011 Jan 28 Observer: DThompson Olga Kuhn and Andrew Rakich (Tucson) Telescope Operator: DHuerta Instrument Support: JMor...
January 10, 2011 OBSERVERS: Jill Bechtold, David Sand, Marco Pedani, Michael Rutkowski, Russell Ryan OPERATOR: David Gonzales Huerta Afternoon: Some high clouds....
LBC Quick Reference Wiki Page AZ version, Jan 5, 2011 Start Up * Log into LBTO workstation (obs2) using your partner account (INAF, LBTB, OSURC, AZ). If yo...
January 9, 2011 OBSERVERS: Jill Bechtold, David Sand, Marco Pedani, Michael Rutkowski, Russell Ryan OPERATOR: David Gonzales Huerta Afternoon: Clouds. 3:43 pm....
Run Summary: Arizona Partners, January 5 10, 2011 The mask exchange mechanism of Lucifer 1 failed just before the start of the AZ run, and the decision was made...
January 8, 2011 OBSERVERS: Jill Bechtold, David Sand, Marco Pedani, Michael Rutkowski, Russell Ryan OPERATOR: David Gonzales Huerta Our worries seem insignifica...
January 7, 2011 OBSERVERS: Jill Bechtold, Dave Thompson VERY CLEAR all afternoon. Preparing Lucifer. Changed Save path to /data/luci/20110108/ 3:48pm Took dark...
Collimate the Telescope January 2011: Operator will do this, you don't have to. 1. Find a Persson Standard near your first object. LOAD CATALOGUE LOAD ...
Check Telescope Pointing by taking a Lucifer Science Image and running ptcorr Jan. 2011: At the beginning of the night, the Operator will go to a star near yo...
How to Look at your Lucifer Imaging during the night You can use the Skycat window to examine your data as it's being taken * Set up bias image in Skycat : C...
LUCIFER Script Examples This is a compilation of scripts that have been used to obtain LUCIFER data and illustrate its various modes. Jan. 2010: END_OSERVING_S...
How to Observe A Telluric Standard for a MOS mask We have written a perl script that allows placing the Telluric star in the leftmost and rightmost slits in an MO...
Generating an LBC Pointing Model from the LBC Red data taken on 20101215 The steps followed to generate a pointing model from these data taken on 20101215 are lis...
skyflats begin at 12:30 (frames 01 0132, filters are brgam, h2, ks, h,j) standard acquisition script producing error. error is: error committing instrument setu...
Night begins with Rex telluric and science (1:06) (1:30) Wiphu starts (3:50) and completes his program (5:30) seeing variable from 1.5 3" Back to Rex (5:45) see...
Program Progress in Oct * Willmer, 6 hours of useful data, needs 3 4 more hours, target at 02h05d * McLinden, 3.3 hours of useful data, needs 40 min more, t...
Observers: Marie, Emily, Wiphu, Greg Plan is to observe McLinden (~20 minutes), Rex (~4hrs), then Willmer for rest Observations begin with McLinden standard star...
LUCIFER/LBC Technical Observing, prep for Partner Science: UT 2010 Oct 31 Observer: DThompson, OKuhn in Tucson through 2:30am Telescope Operator: GBechetti, SAl...
Pointing problems to begin the night McLinden acquisition and telluric additional integrations needed to find ref stars, seeing bad 1.5" Begin shortened McLi...
AZ Oct Run Oct 11, 12, 13, LUCIFER, Observers: Emily McLinden, Marie Rex, Christopher Willmer Oct 11: First half: McLinden/Rieke, Second half: Willmer Oct 12: ...
Observers: Emily McLinden, Marie Rex, Christopher Willmer, Olga Kuhn, Steve Allanson, Gino Bechetti Mirror temperature about 4 degrees C warmer than yesterday. 12...
Summary : Clear night, Seeing ~ 0.5". A significant portion of time was lost because of several mishaps collimation failing, not finding objects, script errors...
Observers : McLinden? , Rex, Willmer, Kuhn, David Lucifer MOS SkyFlats? by accident some of the sky flats were given an incorrect date. Flats 20101011_Flat_00...
INAF LBC LUCIFER queue observing, 2010 October 06 07 Observer: V. Testa, K.Boutsia, M. Fumana Telescope Operator: D.Gonzales Huerta Support Astronomer: O. Kuhn ...
Lucifer Acquisition and Spectroscopic Script Generator (lmsscriptgen) * Steve Allanson, LBTO (05 October 2010) Thank you for volunteering to beta test this scr...
19 September 2010 Afternoon: * Assessed focal plane tilt. I suspect a small ~50 micron, tilt in Blue, such that chip 1 is closer to M1 than chip 3. But need t...
18 September 2010 2nd half LBC restart * Doug Geno plugged in the cable that was brought to Tucson and repaired by Dave Baxter. All four chips on LBC red are...
17 September 2010 2nd half * LBC Chip 2 still dead. See lbcr.20100917.071852.fits. It is not responding to starlight, but has only bias counts plus crosstalk f...
Masks are due by noon in Tucson on the following dates for 2010B: * 7 September Arizona (8), INAF (6), OSU/RC (9) * 10 October Arizona (11), LBTB (11); (the...
LUCIFER Training Preparations for Partner Science: UT 2010 July 02 Observer: DThompson, KRueff, PHibon Telescope Operator: SAllanson Instrument Support: TShi...
LUCIFER Training Preparations for Partner Science: UT 2010 July 01 Observer: DThompson, KRueff, PHibon Telescope Operator: SAllanson Instrument Support: TShi...
Issues which arose during the 7 18 June 2010 Science Run LBC: FPIA using incorrect configuration file Observers had a copy of the file lbcfpia.cfg in their ho...
How to check the duplicate pairs of masks in LUCIFER, June 2010 We are assessing the quality of cuts produced by the LBTO laser milling machine. This is done usi...
LBC Technical Nights 2010 02 January UT (January Tech Night 1) Collimation and pointing data 27 January UT LBC Blue Active Optics Tests in second half 30 Ja...
Summary: Too much cloud to do anything scientific (in fact, the dome was closed from 4:50 to 8:20). The night was however useful to practice various LUCIFER obse...
Summary: Heavy cloud cover at the beginning, but cleared up enough to start observing at 3:40 (but had some clouds most of the time). Dome again closed for 2.5 ...
Summary: Sky was clear initially, but clouds started to move in around 5:30 UT. Seeing was sub arcsecond at the beginning, but quickly deteriorated to 1.5" 2". ...
Summary: Some clouds at the beginning but cleared up later. Seeing was mediocre initially (~1") but improved to ~0.8". We have executed 2 OBs for E. Olszewski's...
AZ April run Apr 14, Apr 15 , LBC, Observers: Jiang, Egami Apr 16, Apr 17, LUCIFER, Observers: Egami, Rieke team On LBC nights: Before 2300 local time: Ol...
Notes to AZ Observers About the Queue * First two nights on LBC, last two nights on LUCIFER * In marginal conditions, use Milne program as backup * In c...
LBC Technical Observations 8 April 2010 UT 07:30 Starting LBC observing. LUCIFER technical observing was done during the first half 07:32 Focus/Collimate on ACT02...
7 April 2010 UT Technical Night 1 David Gonzalez Huerta, Dave Thompson, John Morris (LBTO) Marco Pedani, Olga Kuhn, Andrew Rakich (Tucson) Start with LBC 02:...
Attached is a tarball with example scripts for observing a target, including JHK imaging, acquiring an object in a long slit, observing a spectrum, and observing ...
LBC Collimation Models The table below will be used to store relevant facts about the recent collimation models for LBC SX and DX. * Column 1: the date on wh...
27 January 2010 LBC Blue Active Optics Tests during second half Operator/Observer: JHill, assisted by DMiller Summary The first half of this night is covered i...
Parallel Testing of LBC Red and DX Cell during LUCIFER observing 17 February 2010 UT Observer: JHill (Tucson) Summary JMH completed the first phase of the on sk...
01:00 The sky looks nice, and we are open. 01:30 check pointing. met a problem when running ptcorr, 'subsystem not running failed', ptcorr can not send to positio...
Almost clear, only some clouds around the horizon. 00:30 Dome is open to cool down the telescope. 00:50 The humidity is going up now is 60%. 01:10 The humidity ...
00:30 It is snowing. no open 09:00 It is getting clear, but the humidity is 100%. 13:00 No open in the whole night due to the snow and high humidity. Main.Fuyan...
AZ Feb run (UT Time) Feb 10, Feb 11: LUCIFER, Observers: Bian, McGreer, Hibon Feb 12, Feb 13: LBC, Observers: Bian, Just LUCIFER Time (weather looks pretty hopel...
31 January 2010 Technical Night 2 continued LBC Active Optics testing LUCI prep (20100131) Wayne Wack, Dave Thompson at LBT Andrew Rakich, Olga Kuhn at Stewar...
30 January 2010: Active Optics tests 05:10 Open. Cloudy skies, but humidity dropped below threshold 05:13 Slew to ACT0370, pointing star. Some bumps with observin...
INAF LBC LUCIFER queue observing, 2010 January 15 16 Observer: V. Testa, F. Mannucci, D. Thompson Telescope Operator: WWack Instrument: LUCIFER Data filename roo...
INAF LBC LUCIFER queue observing, 2010 January 14 15 Observer: V. Testa, F. Mannucci, D. Thompson Telescope Operator: WWack Instrument: LUCIFER Data filename roo...
Summary We have around 2 hours science data, most of them are useless due to the cloud. We also have 2 hours fun data, e.g. abell cluster, globular cluster, inter...
Summary It is very cloudy tonight, we lost 5 hours due to the bad weather, 2.5 hours due to the telescope, which is the pointing, we can not find the guide star f...
LBC on 11 September 2009 UT Nautical Twilight at 02:26 UT We are closed due to threatening clouds. The LBC team tried to put some new software on CMU without succ...
Summary It is cloudy tonight. Totally, 2~hours scientific data taken. J0203 0012 H K spectra 40min SN 2008hy J H imaging 34.5min 50.0min J104226 H K spectra...
This page is for notes on user experiences with Lucifer. * Selection of guide stars is a consistent problem. The sky area available for guide stars is quite s...
The sky is clear. Summary There are total ~2.8 hours scientific exposure. 32 min J0900 2234 J H K image 25 min J0900 2234 H K spectra (bad seeing) 30 min 3C220 ...
All times UTC. Flats 12:14 Started continuous images in manual mode with Br_gam and 1.98s integration. Level ~5000. 12:17 Set to Ks and 1.98s. Level ~30,000. ...
Notes to AZ Observers About the Queue * Do priority A objects first * J2227 is probably too low, so for the program, please observe one or two of the backu...
17 December 2009. Last night of SDT LUCIFER observing. At sunset there is light cirrus. This will affect our flats, but we will take some at J and K anyway. Note,...
16 December 2009 (UT=LST 1:40) Queue Observers Chick W.,Olga K., Andrea Q., Roberto S. Some high cirrus. But we are able to open after being shut. FLATS 16...
Telescope closed due to ice blocks on the roof. The new obs team performed some practice simulating observations and testing scripts with the dome closed.
Main.GiovanniCresci 11 Dec 2009 Observers: Manolis, Giovanni, Dave, Nancy, Walter, Marco, Olga 00:20 UT sky partly cloudy at sunset, with clouds moving towards...
UT 03:07 Sky is almost clear, but 100% humidity. Not open due to high humidity. Closed all night due to high humidity. Fuyan Bian/Paul Martini 13 Dec 2009
Sunset: The humidity is 85% and the trend is not favorable, we are therefore are not opening. UT 02:00 The humidity is 100%, although the sky is fairly clear. S...
The following objects are relatively bright targets among approved programs. Observers should consult proposal and observing files to decide if they need good ima...
Preparing LUCIFER Scripts While reviewing some of the LUCIFER SDT scripts, we (Ian Jochen) found a couple of common mistakes: Absolute offsets are based on a ...
LUCIFER Science Demonstration Time: UT 2009 December 08 Observer: D. Thompson (@LBT), I. McGreer, J.Heidt (both went back to Tucson after a Blizzard warning for ...
As in the last night, mostly cloudy at beginning of night, strong winds close to 20m/s not clear if and when we can open = No detailed observing plan made. If it...
LUCIFER Science Demonstration Time: UT 2009 December 07 Observer: D. Thompson, J. Heidt, I. McGreer (all@LBT) Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Support: N. Ageorg...
LUCIFER Science Demonstration Time: UT 2009 December 06 Observer: D. Thompson, J. Heidt, I. McGreer (all@LBT) Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Support: N. Ageorg...
Cloudy at beginning of night, not clear if and when we can open = No detailed observing plan made. If it clears up and observng conditions are good, we'll start ...
SDT Observers' Tasks A. Queue Planning * In the afternoon, draft tonight's observing plan, including back up targets, and calibration plan based on conditions...
24 October 2009 LBC Tech Night 2 We took a lot of data last night and much still needs to be analyzed, but we learned some things right away. 1) Red Z22 zero poi...
2009 October 23 LBC Tech Night (active optics work see PLAN) Times are UT: 00:00 Took a series of 25 biases with Blue/Red these appear in newdata and in Repos...
Archive work on 22 October 2009 UT The LBC data flow was changed (Riccardo Dave) so that the data go directly to /newdata which is mounted on the observer works...
OBSERVING LOGS for LBC SDT 2007 If you use WYSIWYG and "Formated" instead of "Normal" your logs will look ... well... "normal" jill January 12 24 SDT Run ...
Second LBC Tech Night Data on:/Repository/20091014_Tech Observers: Testa, V, Pedichini F. for LBC team, Pedani, M. for LBTO Cirrus clouds T_air = 5.0 RH~65% Wi...
First LBC tech Night. LBC team present. Nautical Twilights: 01:42 UT 12:28 UT 01:42 Closed due to strong winds and high RH 04:05 Weather still bad with RH~88% ...
Technical and Software Support for SDT Observations During the January SDT run, the following persons will be providing 24/7 telescope technical support. The des...
LBC on 14 September 2009 UT Clouds. 05:10 We open dome (still some thunderstorms south of Wilcox) T_air=9.4 RH=80% T_mirr=11.8 Right Shutter alarm! Left Opened...
At 21:32 Sept 12 UT we start cameras to check with 10 Biases LBCB Mean r.m.s = 5.21 ADU LBCR Mean r.m.s = 5.46 ADU Red channel a little more noisy with some pick ...
No Observing tonight. A hail storm in the afternoon produce half an inch of hail accumulated on the dome. We had serious water leaks that affected the LBC Tree Ho...
05 September 2009 LBC Checkout Observers: O. Kuhn, J. Hill (from Tucson) Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Huerta Summary Lost to weather. Preparations * TCS B...
4 September 2009 LBC Checkout Observer: O. Kuhn Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Huerta Test L2 position Check Focus (z SLOAN) Install and test new mcspu Runni...
02 September 2009 (First night of LBC post shutdown checkout) 02:17 MST LBCs up and running. Note that during the afternoon HK blue readings had dropped out. So I...
Sky Brightness * Sky Brightness and Seeing Measurements from data obtained at the VATT were published in Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope UBVR Sky Surfac...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 18/19 Observers: Rick Pogge, Eichii Egami Support Scientist: none TO: Aaron Ceranski Lots of high clouds around during the after...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Apr 19/20 Observers: A. Grazian, R. Gredel. Night Assistant: D. Thompson, J. Hill Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski 17:59 Turn on Hous...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 19/20 Observer1: Nicolas Bouche, Peter Buschkamp Observer2: Paul Smith Inst. Support: Olga Kuhn TO: Aaron Ceranski Closed for S...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 19 20 Observer: D. Thompson LBC Support: A. DiPaola, R. Speziali, R. Bertram Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez 02:56 Dome open, p...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 19/20 Observers: Rick Pogge, Eichii Egami Support Scientist: none TO: Aaron Ceranski Mostly clear during the afternoon, with hig...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Sep 15 16 Observers: J. Hill, O. Kuhn Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski LBTO Family night, but cloudy until midnight. Ray and Tim and ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 April 16/17 Observers: J. Harris, D. Sand Instrument Support: Telescope Operator: Instrument: LBC Blue $ 19:00: Camera shutter ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 16/17 Observer: Tom Herbst, Giacomo Beccari Inst. Support: Dave Thompson TOs: David Gonzalez, Aaron Ceranski 18:05 Mostly cle...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 16/17 Observers: V. Burwitz, J. Hill Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Instrument: LBC Blue Weather evening: thin clouds ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 16/17 Observers: Rick Pogge, Peter Garnavich Support: John Hill on site, Olga Kuhn on call TO: Aaron Ceranski Afternoon weather...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 16 17 Observers: D. Sand and M. Coleman Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Main.JohnHill 17 Oct 2007 Sand and Coleman here. ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 April 17/18 Observers: J. Harris, D. Sand Instrument Support: D. Thompson, R. Bertram Telescope Operator: Instrument: LBC Blue $...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 17/18 Observers: V. Burwitz, J. Hill Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Instrument: LBC Blue Weather evening: Clear Weat...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 17/18 Observers: Rick Pogge, Eichii Egami Support: John Hill on site, Olga Kuhn on call TO: Aaron Ceranski Afternoon weather is ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Apr 18/19 Observers: A. Grazian, R. Gredel. Night Assistant: D. Thompson, J. Hill Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski 18:01 Turn on Hous...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 18/19 Observer1, Nicolas Bouche, Peter Buschkamp Observer2, Paul Smith Inst. Support, Dave Thompson TO; Aaron Ceranski UT 03:0...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 18 19 Observer: D. Thompson Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez 02:42 Crew still cleaning up in the dome. Dewar warmed sign...
Preparing for your PartnerObserving Run Planning your PartnerObserving Program * Generation of PartnerObserving Blocks (LBC only) * MakingSlitmasks for LUCI...
21 October 2008 PartnerObserving Log Copied new version which Stefano sent of track_first.exe and track_next.exe to /images on CMU. Moved existing versions to tr...
SDT PartnerObserving Block Uploads Please email final OBs to okuhn,dthompson at as.arizona.edu so we can coordinate getting them up to the telescope in advance...
Afternoon * State of things: Spare controller which was swapped in earlier last night remains in place (ID #1). But we got the same error message about a bad ...
Procedures for taking Twilight Sky Flats 1.After the telescope operator opens the dome (just after sunset) and the telescope and instrument are ready, ask him...
Main.jill 12 Dec 2006 * NOTES on SKY VALUES IN ETC 12 Dec 2006* Jill Bechtold 11 December 2006 Revised, Dec. 22, 2006 SKY BRIGHTNESS OBSERVED V. THE LBT ETC Sum...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 12/13 Observers: Rick Pogge Inst. Support: John Hill TO: Ed Lundin UTC Mar 12 2100: Fired up the system, cryostat temperature ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 May 12/13 MST Technical Observers: J. Hill, (A. DiPaola, R. Speziali) Telescope Operator: E. Lundin Instrument: LBC Blue Waiting for...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 12/13 Observer: Tom Herbst, Giacomo Beccari Inst. Support: John Hill TOs: Ed Lundin David Gonzalez Fog blowing over the summit...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 13/14 Observers: V. Burwitz, D. Thompson Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Instrument: LBC Blue 23:50 initialized camera! same...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 13/14 Observers: Rick Pogge, Peter Garnavich Inst. Support: John Hill TO: Ed Lundin UTC Mar 13 2100: LBC shutter is still unrepo...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 13/14 Observer: Tom Herbst, Giacomo Beccari Inst. Support: John Hill TOs: Ed Lundin David Gonzalez Serious winter storm all af...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 14/15 Observer: Tom Herbst, Giacomo Beccari Inst. Support: John Hill TOs: Ed Lundin David Gonzalez Winter storm continues...Ac...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 14/15 Observers: V. Burwitz, D. Thompson Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Instrument: LBC Blue Weather evening: Very thin ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 14/15 Observers: Rick Pogge, Peter Garnavich Inst. Support: John Hill TO: Ed Lundin UTC Mar 14 1745: Clock board from the CCD co...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 15/16 Observer: Tom Herbst, Giacomo Beccari Inst. Support: John Hill, Dave Thompson TOs: Ed Lundin David Gonzalez Beautifully ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 15/16 Observers: V. Burwitz, J. Hill Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Instrument: LBC Blue Weather evening: Thin high clou...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 15/16 Observers: Rick Pogge, Peter Garnavich Inst. Support: John Hill TO: Ed Lundin UTC Mar 15 2200: Day crew is replacing the s...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 15 16 Observers: D. Sand and M. Coleman Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Huerta Beautiful Clear evening. Not a cloud in the sky....
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Jan 19/20 snowing whole day Main.fan 20 Jan 2007 Observers: Rick Pogge Xiaohui Fan Inst. Support Astronomer: Dave Thompson TOs...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Jan 20/21 Observers: Rick Pogge Xiaohui Fan Inst. Support: Dave Thompson TOs: Aaron Ceranski David Gonzalez 1800 UTC Jan 20: Abo...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Jan 21/22 Observer: Rick Pogge Inst. Support: none TOs: Aaron Ceranski David Gonzalez Winter storm started around noon. Wind, sno...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Jan 22/23 Observers: Rick Pogge Inst. Support: None TOs: Aaron Ceranski A winter storm dumped about a foot of fresh powdery snow on...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Jan 23/24 Observers: Rick Pogge Inst. Support: Olga Kuhn TOs: Aaron Ceranski John Hill is also present tonight. UTC Jan 23 2100: At...
SDT PartnerObserving Checklist This page is a checklist of basic tasks from afternoon through morning for a night of SDT observing. Afternoon (usually before 4:3...
Observer's Checklist/Information: Basic Safety Information (read all of this!) * WelcomeInfo * SafetyRules High Altitude Considerations * ConsentForm ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 11/12 Observers: V. Burwitz, D. Thompson Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Instrument: LBC Blue UT 00:33 so far bad weather thi...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 08 09 Observers: J. Hill, V. Testa Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Telescope and Instrument Support (alseep on site) 051 25 ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 09/10 Technical Observer: J. Hill Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Instrument: LBC Blue Technical observing with a bit of SDT M8...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 May 09/10 Technical Observers: J. Hill, E. Diolaiti, A. DiPaola, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: E. Lundin Technical Support: J. Lit...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 09 10 Observers: V. Testa, J. Hill, Stephane Herbert Fort Telescope Operator: David Gonzalez Huerta Telescope and Instrument S...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Apr 10/11 Observers: John Hill, Mark Wagner Telescope Operator: David Gonzales Instrument: LBC Blue Some more SDT related observin...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 10/11 Observers: V. Burwitz, J. Hill Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Instrument: LBC Blue Open after sunset. T=10.9degC, D= 3....
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 10/11 Observer: John Hill Telescope Operator: Ed Lundin Some more SDT related observing during engineering time. Note that I'...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 May 10/11 Technical Observers: J. Hill, A. DiPaola, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: E. Lundin Instrument: LBC Blue Some more SDT rel...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 11/12 Observer: Tom Herbst, Giacomo Beccari Inst. Support: John Hill TOs: Ed Lundin David Gonzalez Winter storm started around...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 11/12 Observer: John Hill TO: Ed Lundin Some more bonus SDT observations in engineering time. As with last night, I'm only usin...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 May 11/12 Technical Observers: J. Hill, A. DiPaola, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: E. Lundin Instrument: LBC Blue After waiting for...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 12/13 Observers: V. Burwitz, D. Thompson Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Instrument: LBC Blue 02:38 Sunset 02:47 Dome Opened...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 25/26 Observer: John Hill, Emiliano Diolaiti Inst. Support: John Hill TO: Ed Lundin Mixed in with some engineering activities,...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Feb 26/27 Observer: John Hill, Emiliano Diolaiti Inst. Support: John Hill TO: Ed Lundin Mixed in with some engineering activities, ...
LBT PartnerObserving Time Proposals Proposals for observing time are currently not being accepted. Proposal Submission * Next proposal due date: * Use thes...
20 December 2008 UT Summary The humidity dropped and skies cleared but there was too much ice on the enclosure to open. In any case, there was much closed dome t...
21 December 2008 UT PartnerObserving Log morning afternoon: * Fernando Vincenzo noticed this morning that the Blue Science controller fans, which they fo...
PartnerObserving Log morning Andrea, Fernando Vincenzo wrapping up. In the User Interface, Andrea changed the OB Progress to show number of images taken out of ...
23 December UT "PartnerObserving" Log Clouds, humidity, snow and high winds. The winter storm came earlier than expected and there was no chance to open today. ...
No PartnerObserving The second winter storm came in last night and there is snow and wind. No chance of opening. Based on the data taken 22 Dec (UT), shims were ...
Dither Patterns There are various dither patterns available to select in the LBC GUI: random, circular, rectangular, LBC 4 step and 10 step default and user defin...
0. Summary: Overall a productive run, and certainly way beyond my (modest) expectations. Weather was good; we observed all six nights; had good ( =0.5") seeing o...
#TopTop Image Gallery This page contains 'typical' images along with some examples of 'odd' images with a brief explanation of what is causing the problem and s...
Issues that LBC Observers Should Know About Last update: 7 February 2008 Data Analysis 1. Prior to the February 2007 SDT time, the exposure times in the head...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 03 04 Observers: J. Hill, V. Testa Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Never opened because of high humidity and eventually fog. T=...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 04 05 Observers: J. Hill, V. Testa Instrument Support: R. Bertram Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski This is scheduled SDT time whi...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 06 07 Observers: J. Hill, A. Rakich Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Huerta (all the technical images aren't included in this log...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 05 06 Observers: J. Hill, V. Testa Instrument Support: R. Bertram Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski First images in 2007106 are th...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 06 07 Observers: J. Hill, V. Testa Instrument Support: R. Bertram Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski 005954 010215 5 bias frame...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Oct 07 08 Observers: J. Hill, V. Testa Instrument Support: R. Bertram Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski 00:49 25 bias frames 01:05 ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 08/09 Technical Observer: J. Hill Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Instrument: LBC Blue Technical observing with a bit of SDT M8...
20 March 2009 UT LBC Technical PartnerObserving Observers: O. Kuhn (@LBT), J. Hill (Tucson) Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Huerta Thin cirrus over all sky at s...
21 March 2009 UT LBC Technical PartnerObserving Observers: O. Kuhn (@LBT), J. Hill (Tucson) Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Huerta Problems with the NFS disk at...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 20 21 Observer: D. Thompson LBC Support: A. DiPaola, R. Speziali, R. Bertram Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez 23:00 AdP RS fou...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Mar 20/21 Observers: Rick Pogge, Eichii Egami Support Scientist: none TO: Aaron Ceranski The Vernal Equinox is at 1707 MST today. ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Apr 21/22 Observers: A. Grazian, R. Gredel. Night Assistant: J. Hill Telescope Operator: D. Gonzales 17:12 Turn on House Keeping Tu...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 21 22 Observer: J. Hill LBC Support: A. DiPaola, R. Speziali, R. Bertram Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez More technical observi...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Apr 22/23 Observers: A. Grazian, R. Gredel. Night Assistant: Telescope Operator: D. Gonzales 18:06 Turn on Blue Channel 18:09 Came...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 22 23 Observer: J. Hill, A. Rakich LBC Support: A. DiPaola, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Open 02:50 UT without i...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 May 22/23 MST Observers: J. Hill Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski Instrument: LBC Blue Peter is gone. Moon is first quarter. John i...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 Apr 23/24 Observers: A. Grazian, R. Gredel. Night Assistant: Telescope Operator: D. Gonzales Snow storm. Then high wind blows away ...
PartnerObserving Log for 2007 June 23 24 Observer: J. Hill LBC Support: A. DiPaola, R. Speziali Telescope Operator: D. Gonzalez Last night of technical observing ...
2009 January 20 UT LBC PartnerObserving Log Observers are: Marco Pedani, Roberto Ragazzoni, Fernando Pedichini, John Hill, Mark Wagner, Wayne Wack (LBT) and Olg...
2009 January 21 UT LBC PartnerObserving Log Main.MarcoPedani 22 Jan 2009 Partly cloudy we start at 01:31 UT on sky Check Collimation Table EL= 84 lbcb.2009...
Parasitic LBC Red PartnerObserving in Parallel to IRTC LFBG for 12 June 2009 UT LBC Observer: J. Hill (Tucson) IRTC Observers: D. Thompson, M. Pedani (mtn) Telesc...
Parasitic LBC Red PartnerObserving in Parallel to IRTC LFBG for 13 June 2009 UT LBC Observer: J. Hill (Tucson) IRTC Observers: D. Thompson, M. Pedani (mtn) Telesc...
02:04 LBCB Trackers failure 02:26 Boot successful 02:00 Around this time, DX was not raising finally did at about 02:30 02:49 Test flats (took data but telescop...
2009 June 04 UT Technical Night after LBC maintenance engineering run Observers: O. Kuhn (Tucson), and J. Hill (at beginning) Telescope Operator: A. Ceranski S...
15 June 2009 UT Tech Night 1 Observers: O. Kuhn (mtn) Operator: W. Wack Instrument Support: J. Morris Weather: some clouds around, not photometric. RH low, ~30% b...
16 June 2009 UT LBC Tech Night 2 Observers: O. Kuhn (mtn), J. Hill (Tucson, 1st half) Operator: W. Wack Instrument Support: J. Morris Preparations afternoon ...
2009 May 24 UT 02:04 LBCB Trackers failure 02:26 Boot successful 02:00 Around this time, DX was not raising finally did at about 02:30 02:49 Test flats (took da...
Observers: Fuyon Bian and Peter Milne Operator: Aaron Ceranski Summary Did not open due to problem with building rotation. Details All Times UT Fifth Night of ...
Summary Did not open due to high winds. Details Observers: Fuyon Bian and Peter Milne Supporting Astronomer: Marco Pedani Operator: Wayne Wack All Times UT Fou...
Summary Weather was nice and clear except last hour before sunrise. Seeing was more stable around 1"some time below 1". We had hard time to focus at the beginning...
Summary Note that the pointing was off by ~5 arcmin, and we discovered this at 2am while tuning things up for the Yan program. Seeing was unstable the whole night...
Summary We were closed most of the night due to high winds and some snow. The right shutter was never able to open, and so we observed with the blue side only. ...
20090320 LBC Blue SX and Red DX Collimation plots. Temperature was about 4 5 C. Main.OlgaKuhn 21 Mar 2009 * SXCollimation20090320.plot: Fit to 20090320 SX...
List of images used to measure filter focus offsets Red on left and Blue on right. I used only chip2 (but images were with all 4 chips) and usually the region at ...
Summary Details Observers: Fuyan Bian Supporting Astronomer: Marco Pedani Operator: Wayne Wack All Times UT Fifth Night of the AZ queue. 2230 Sky looks pretty go...
Summary The seeing is bad. Most of The temperature of the telescope is unstable, making the focus change a lot and it is very hard to converge. The red channel ...
Summary Details Observers: David Sand, Fuyan Bian, Zoltan Bolag Supporting Astronomer: Marco Pedani Operator: Wayne Wack All Times UT Third night of the AZ queue...
Summary Details Observers: David Sand Supporting Astronomer: Marco Pedani Operator: Wayne Wack All Times UT First Night of the AZ queue. 2250 Sky looks pretty ba...
Summary Details Observers: David Sand, Fuyan Bian, Zoltan Bolag Supporting Astronomer: Marco Pedani Operator: Wayne Wack All Times UT Second night of the AZ queu...
Object list IC 348: 03:44 32:09 Barlog Segue 1: 10:07 16:04 EdO Aries: 02:19 20:10 EdO M3: 13:42 27:22 EdO M92: 17:17 43:08 EdO Bootes: 14:31 32:28 Fan...
19 December 2008 UT morning Doug Mark brought the new F972N20 filter back to Tucson to get a better scan of it. afternoon reviewing logs from last night. Suspi...
18 December 2008 times are MST, UT = MST 7h morning The new F972N20 filter in the ring does not fit into the hole in the filter wheel 2. For clarification, the...
20 October UT 18:20 IIF problems LBCstart had to be done since LBC code had been recompiled 18:30 problems with sending a RB ob when red is unticked Z11...
25 September UT Afternoon * Andrea changed the software to fix the problem of single chip observations leaving the detector in a bad bias state. Now integrat...
Below is a brief summary of the April Arizona LBC run. We observed with the LBCs on the LBT for six nights from Apr 6 to Apr 11, 2008. The Arizona observing team...
01:30 some thin clouds on the horizon. night might not be photometric. 02:18 attempted to move telescope to zenith, but encountered HBS problem. 02:28 moving to S...
00:25 telescope at zenith. We were able to turn the camera off and on to revive LBC red. taking test bias frames. looks normal, no pattern visible in red chip!! 0...
Summary The observation is smooth tonight. The sky was clear after the observation began. Some of trailed images (due to the guide star is galaxy or telescope jum...
sky calendar Sunset: 1921, twiend: 2102/LST1322, midnightLST: 1620, twibegin: 0333/LST1955, sunrise 0512; note this 18 deg twilight, we can start/end at least 15 ...
Summary The observation was more smooth than yesterday, almost no time wasted tonight. Seeing is good during the first half night (0.7 0.9 for red channel), and b...
Summary Several camera problems (rotator, temperature ...)were meet. Two hours observation time lost. The seeing is 0.8 1.0" for red channel and 1 1.6" for the ...
Basics We need four kinds of calibration data for this run. * biases (in the afternoon) * twilight flat fields (both evening and morning twilights): in filt...
Summary Overall a productive night. Seeing 0.7" 1.3". Observed one OB in UMaII, one OB in Herc, six OBs in Bootes and three OBs in EGS. Lost the last hour of the ...
Summary High wind; almost no useful data taken Details Observers: Linhua Jiang, David Sand Supporting Astronomer: Marco Pedani Operator: David Gonzalez Huerta Al...
Summary Not open due to wind and humidty Details Observers: Linhua Jiang, David Sand Supporting Astronomer: Marco Pedani Operator: David Gonzalez Huerta All Time...
Summary High wind, mediocre seeing. Only tried three OBs, the rest of time closed due to wind. Details Observers: Linhua Jiang, David Sand Supporting Astronomer:...
For the rest of this run, our fields are: beginning of the night (1) If Sand feels needs to re do some UMa OBs; (2) otherwise, we will start on Q1137 project, whi...
Summary Another smooth night. Almost no time lost to telescope/camera. Lost two hours due to high wind. Sky remained to be photometric. Seeing is around 1.0" in t...
Summary 080406 Overall a smooth and productive night. After an initial rebooting around sunset, LBC didn't fail the entire night. There were several small telesco...
Summary: Band of high clouds at beginning of the night. Details Observers: Dave Sand, St\xE9phane Herbert Fort, Eric Nielson Supporting Astronomer: None :( Ope...
Summary: Another productive night. We struggled early again, due the recovery from a power outage. Otherwise, telescope and camera did well. We did spend fair amo...
Summary: There were light clouds at the beginning of the night, so no standard stars were taken. Overall a pretty good night, with long stretches with few proble...
Summary: Overall a productive night. Photometric with OK seeing (0.9 1.5"). Part of first half lost to telescope and LBC troubles; the last 1.5 hours lost to wind...
Summary Bad seeing, lot of instrument troubles. Little useful data on SN and GRB. Observers: Xiaohui Fan, Linhua Jiang Support: Marco Pedani, Olga Kuhn Operator D...
Considerations for OB Preparation Correct Filter List in LBC OB generating GUI The latest release of the OB GUI (21 November 2007, available at http://lbc.oa roma...
modified I Bessel transmission The plot and text represent only a nominal modified I Bessel filter. * I_Bessell_mod.txt: Nominal modified I Bessel transmissio...
Y filter transmission Note that the Y filter is a PI filter. Please contact Xiaohui Fan (fan #64;as.arizona.edu) for availability. Transmission is measured in a ...
Sloan z' transmission Measured in a collimated beam at 4 corner points (dotted curves) and through the center (solid curve). In the f/1.45 beam, the wavelengths w...
Sloan i' transmission Measured in a collimated beam at 4 corner points (dotted curves) and through the center (solid curve). In the f/1.45 beam, the wavelengths w...
Sloan r' transmission Measured in a collimated beam at 4 corner points (dotted curves) and through the center (solid curve). In the f/1.45 beam, the wavelengths w...
Main.JohnHill 18 Oct 2007 Sand and Coleman here. Beautiful sunset. Candidate Photometric night. Good way to start the last night of SDT EVER. 0110 Taking 5 b...
Main.JohnHill 15 Oct 2007 Hi Matt Coleman and Dave Sand are at the LBT. Olga is helping and it is great. 0110 UT Opening Dome. Having some trouble retracting....
Observers: C.S. Kochanek, V. Testa, D. Gonzales Huerta Clouds all around. Humidity 80% at sunset (00:56) 00:54 5bias 005405 005625 01:00 Slew to 1hr E, 2...
Observers: C.S. Kochanek, V. Testa, D. Gonzales HuertaClear sky but with a few thin clouds at horizon toward East. Opened at 01:00 01:10 Azimut encoders can't b...
Observers: V. Testa, S. Herbert Fort, D. Gonzales Huerta Quite nice and sunny in the afternoon. Sky looks very clear.At the moment it is candidate photometric. 06...
Observers are: V. Testa, S. Herbert Fort, D. Gonzales Huerta Mostly sunny with few thin clouds in the afternoon 00:35 25 bias 003632 005038 01:00 Sunset Stil...
19:45 Stop and restart firefox on lbtmu03, since it was taking up to 62% memory and was slow to respond. In new firefox, start LBC and run up. 19:50 Start series ...
The LBC focal plane consists of four edge butted CCDs with gaps of ~18 arcseconds between the arrays. You can find more details about LBC on its instrument page:...
17May2007 Observer: Peter Buschkamp, Nicolas Bouche TO: David Gonzalez 20:00 we are ready, LBC is ready, the telescope seems ready, but rain is coming our way 21:...
Last night of the May SDT run. In short: Lots of moonlight and bad seeing after a while. High wind speed with gusts 16m/s. Humidity too high after 2am. closed ...
Observer: Peter Buschkamp Telescope Operator: David Gonzalez What got observed: 1. Flats in U spec (0 and 180deg) 2. Flats in R sloan (0 and 180deg) 3. Flats in B...
20:09 last threatening cloud has moved away and we are opening. 21:05 standard ; sky clear; seeing 0.8" 21:25 going to GRB 070419 seeing 0.8"; sky clear 22:25 M81...
20:00 Cloud overhead dropped rain drops. Otherwise, horizon clearing up. 20:40 we are open! Not photometric. 20:55 LBC archive stuck. No data being put in /Repo...
An updated set of standards for May is at /home/sdtobs/1SDTOBs/Standards_May. Following is an airmass table for all of these fields: field air eve twi...
LBTO Instrumentation Home Page General Acknowledgements: The LBTO requests that publications based on data obtained at the LBT include the following statement as...
Observers: Jason Harris, Paul Martini, Jose Prieto TO: David Gonzalez Instrument Support: John Hill Almanac: Sunset ( 3000 m horizon): 18 55 MST; Sunrise: 5 45 ...
$ 16:15: 25 Bias frames and 900 sec Dark $ 18:45: Sky is mostly clear. Some wispy clouds in the northwest, so it's not photometric. $ 19:00: Doing Twilig...
Planning Tools * airmass vs time plot tool from ING LBT coordinates: E longitude deg and latitude deg and altitude m are 250.111 32.7013 3221 Note that this...
$ 16:45: Biases and 900 sec Dark $ 18:30: The fog has lifted, but it's still mostly couldy, and humidity is 98%. The satellite images look promising, though. ...
Tracking OB execution During the night, one of the SDT observers should be monitoring the incoming data, checking that the image quality is good and the seeing ...
Standard Star Fields for March 2007 Prepared by Ed Olszewski, David Sand, and Jill Bechtold 2007 March 12 This is the list of photometric standard fields for th...
CALIBRATION OBSERVATIONS DURING SDT I: Background By: Edward Olszewski, David Sand, Jill Bechtold, Dave TrillingLast update: Jan. 12, 2007 Summary: This p...
Mapping from queue listing to OB name Under construction... some notes follow. Mapping from 'queue scheduler' listing to name of OB in /home/sdtobs/1SDTOBs/ qu...
PaulSmith? 24 Feb 2007 SDT? Observer1: Nicolas Bouche, Peter Buschkamp Observer2: Paul Smith Inst. Support: TOs: Ed Lundin and David Gonzalez 1730 1800: biases ...
Main.PaulSmith 23 Feb 2007 SDT Observer1: Nicolas Bouche, Peter Buschkamp Observer2: Paul Smith Inst. Support: TO: Ed Lundin Blizzard during the afternoon and ea...
Main.PaulSmith 20 Feb 2007 SDT Observer1: Nicolas Bouche, Peter Buschkamp Observer2: Paul Smith Inst. Support: Olga Kuhn TO: Aaron Ceranski 1820: Start biases. ...
Main.PaulSmith 21 Feb 2007 SDT Observer1: Nicolas Bouche, Peter Buschkamp Observer2: Paul Smith Inst. Support: Olga Kuhn TO: Aaron Ceranski Some cirrus to W and ...
Main.PaulSmith 22 Feb 2007 SDT Observer1: Nicolas Bouche, Peter Buschkamp Observer2: Paul Smith Inst. Support: Olga Kuhn TO: Ed Lundin 1835: Flats UBVgr (0 deg PA...
Observer1, Nicolas Bouche, Peter Buschkamp Observer2, Giacomo Beccari Inst. Support, Dave Thompson TOs; David Gonzalez, Aaron Ceranski Nice sunset (means lots of ...
Printing at the LBT from your Laptops. There is a standard 600dpi black and white HP Laser Jet printer in the control room for use by visiting astronomers. Once ...
SDT Data Transfer to Tucson for Dissemination: In the spirit of the SDT observations, the observing team members are requested to NOT copy the data to their lap...
Basic Safety Rules Elevation Altitude Whether you are an experienced trekker, a visitor or an observer, altitude does not discriminate. Altitude effects the you...
LBTO Instrumentation Support Group Personnel Contact any of the following persons for questions or problems with LBT instrumentation or concerning science observa...
Information on Mountain Road Conditions. Recently, two LBTO staff members got into difficulties driving down the snowy mountain road at night. They were unable...
Quick Look Data Inspection Tools Once data have been acquired, there are some simple image inspection tasks you can perform to quickly assess the image quality. ...
To insure smooth access to the observatories and to insure your safety during your LBTO visit, all personnel must check in at the Base Camp to: * Log their pre...
Dealing with LBC data using IRAF and ds9 (for Dummies) You must have a current version of ds9 and IRAF. At the moment, at least at Steward, not everybody ha...
Main.jill 16 Jan 2007 Main.gredel 19 Jan 2007 covered all day, getting a bit better towards sunset; low wind 3 4 m/s; humidity 50 60% Ambient temperature ...
Main.jill 16 Jan 2007 Main.gredel 18 Jan 2007 cirrus, high clouds moving in, low humidity 18%, how wind pointer has been changed again to /Repository, let's s...
The only data taken so far where sky is easily measured are the Ryan exposures on 15Jan2007, where the exposure time is 240 sec andthe V filter was used. Note tha...
Main.jill 15 Jan 2007 Main.gredel 17 Jan 2007 work on rotator all day, possible cause identified, command rotator spinning motor shaft found, but gear not...
Main.jill 13 Jan 2007 Main.gredel 15 Jan 2007 afternoon, no wind no clouds no ice sorry, lots of ice on the roof. Snow melting heaters not very efficient, ...
Main.jill 13 Jan 2007 Main.gredel 14 Jan 2007 clear sky, low wind, strong ice accumulation on enclosure, trying to de ice by exposing walls to sun Mirror at ...
Main.jill 13 Jan 2007 Main.gredel 13 Jan 2007 20:00 in the fog, enclosure covered with ice (except of roof, de iced) 22:00 fibre replacement wraps etc. 22:...
Here is one of numerous jobs that we expect LBT observers to do on the mountain. Fortunately, Roland Gredel the first SDT observer is experienced at both obs...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION The LBTO will be carrying out engineering until 4:30 pm every day. At 4:30 pm, have the staff darken the dome, and carry out the following ...
Mountain Workstations Currently the control room has five workstations available, one of which is primarily used by the telescope operator (on the far right as yo...
Project lead is responsible for OB preparation. Hard copies of the proposals are available on the mountain, and in Tucson. These are not for public distributio...
MT. GRAHAM RED SQUIRREL BRIEFING: The endangered Mt. Graham red squirrel is protected by the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. It is illegal to ...
Emergency Information In Case of Emergency on the Mountain: * 24 hour Emergency Number: 911 * Univ of Arizona Police Department Dispatch: 1 520 621 8273 ...
Driving to the LBT. LBTO is located on top of Mt. Graham, Arizona, approximately 150 highway miles from The University of Arizona in Tucson (see map).link here. ...
Phone Usage at the LBTO Cell phone coverage at the observatory is spotty at best, do not count on that as a reliable phone connection. LBTO Phone list (both of ...
Meals at the Observatory Food is always an important topic and here we have good and bad news. The good news is that you may have any food that you would like wh...
Lodging Reservations in Tucson. Hotels in the Tucson area: ADOBE ROSE INN 940 N. Olsen Ave. Tucson, AZ 85719 1 800 328 4122 / (520) 318 4644 SHERATON TUCSON HO...
Arriving at Tucson International Airport You will arrive at Tucson International Airport. You must have a valid passport and a U.S. Visa in order to be allowed t...
Welcome Message from our Program Manager This information should be distributed where appropriate We are very happy that you will soon be coming to the Large Bino...
SDT Data Transfer to Tucson for Dissemination: In the spirit of the SDT observations, the observing team members are requested to NOT copy the data to their lapto...
Connecting Laptops to the LBT Astronomer's Net. The LBT operates under the paradigm that every Astronomer visiting the observatory will arrive with a laptop compu...
LBT IRAF Packages Some tasks which are useful to list, display and run a basic reduction while at the telescope have been incorporated into the packages LBTtools...
* Transmission curves for UBVg'r': Solid curves are nominal transmission curves. For the Sloan filters these correctly show the blueshift that results when these ...
V Bessel transmission Nominal transmission data and plot; not measured for actual filter in LBC Blue. * LBCB_Bessel_V.txt: V Bessel transmission table: lambda ...
B Bessel transmission Nominal transmission data and plot; not measured for actual filter in LBC Blue. * LBCB_Bessel_B.txt: B Bessel transmission table: lambda ...
U Bessel transmission Nominal transmission data and plot; not measured for actual filter in LBC Blue. * LBCB_Bessel_U.txt: U Bessel transmission table: lambda ...
Sloan g' transmission There are three tables: one is for the nominal filter, computed assuming a convergent f/1.45 beam as in LBC Blue and the other two (labelled...
Sloan r' transmission There are three tables: one is for the nominal filter, computed assuming a convergent f/1.45 beam as in LBC Blue and the other two (labelled...