WIYN 3.5m WHIRC Observing Report for 2012/11/2

Summary:
A successful night observing 11 supernovae, one comet, and the Persson
Standard P161D

Observer: Anja Weyant
Telescope Operator: David Summers
Conditions:
  Mostly Clear, cloudless sky
  Moon at 83% illumination
  15 deg C.  55% humidity.  Wind speed 5-10 mph.

Summary of observations on 2012/10/28:
Name                           |  J,H
---------------------------------
SN2012et                     |  25,19
CSS121006:2325854...|   x,41
LSQ12fhs                      |  28,16
CSS121009:011101...  |  34,50
2012fr                          |   3,3
2012fk                         |  16,16
LSQ12fuk                     |   9,9
LSQ12fmx                    |  32,50
PSNJ07250042...         |   9,10
PS1-12bwh                   |   9,16
SN2012fm                   |   9,10
Comet168P                  |  5,5,4
P161D                          |   3,3

Took J,H,Ks flats on/off.  Kept _every_ exposure taken.  Forgot to take
out WTTM slide
so the first set of flats in H with the lamp on are not good.

Notes:
 * 0.5 hours of time spent on DD/ToO observations of Comet 168P on behalf
of Rachel
Stevenson.
 * Target was offset E by 50".  Exposure times were 60s in J and H and 40s
in K.
 * Used 2x2_30arcsec dither script in each filter.
* I had 15 minutes left at the end of the night so I decided to observe
the nearby Persson Standard P161D
 *I tested and used Michael's dither scripts 4x4grid_20arcsec.obs and
5x5grid_15arcsec.obs.  The other dither pattern used during the night was
the 3x3_30arcsec.  If the exposure was longer than 25 minutes I used a
different dither script so I did not have to perform an offset.  The
exceptions are CSS121009:... and LSQ12fmx for which I ran two 5x5_15" in
a row in H
 *A few times there was a mechanical problem with the dither move and
guide star and we lost guiding.  It only happened in a few images.
* Seeing ranged from 0.4-0.9" in J,H.
* 573 images taken
* I always leave the imgtype as "Object" unless I am taking flats.