Date: 2015/04/09 Observer: Michael Wood-Vasey OA: Karen Butler Number Observation Int Time Filter Airmass Seeing Notes # MOP didn't come up cleanly. Wouldn't connect to DHE # OA Karen ran a command in monsoon panDaemon@whirc-pan window # and that successfully reset things # # Ran through 4 junk frames without detector off and unbiased # Realized error, then # Ran through 11 junk frames after starting WHIRC # Lamp was turned on around 16:10. 1-11 dark 5 16:21 OPAQ - - - # Lamp had actually been turned on around 16:10 to 425 12-22 flat 5 16:24 H - - lamps on at 425 # Waited 1 minute for lamp to cool down 23-33 flat 5 16:28 H - - lamps off 34-44 flat 5 16:32 Ks - - lamps off # Waited 2 minutes for lamp to warm up 45-55 flat 5 16:37 Ks - - lamps on at 380 # Waited 1 minute for lamp to warm up 56-66 flat 5 16:41 J - - lamps on at 600 # Waited 2 minutes for lamps to cool down 67-77 flat 5 16:48 J - - lamps off # Unbiased, and Unpowered WHIRC detector. # Second half night, so insert waiting here... # Powered, and Biased Detector at midnight. # Took set of darks to check out basic working of system. 78-88 dark 5 00:02 OPAQ - - look good, but vary some in e noise and palmprint # Wanted to check out the darks again so ran a new set 89-99 dark 5 00:23 OPAQ - - these look more consistent # Handover at 00:36. I had agreed to 10 minutes to swap for handover tomorrow night # but also because we had been given 1 hour by the previous nights' 1st-half observer # observer@dust: setpropid 2012B-0500 # S791-C # Several minutes lost to OA try to figure out fiducial setting to place WHIRC in the right place. # WTTM slide slow. Claims it's both done moving but still out. 100-107 S791-C 5 00:40 J 1.26 - acquire/focus (101 is actually 20 seconds) 108-116 S791-C 10 00:50 J 1.27 0.8-0.9 3x3x30" 117-125 S791-C 10 00:54 H 1.27 0.8 3x3x30" 126-134 S791-C 10 00:59 Ks 1.27 0.8 3x3x30" # All of these S791-C exposures were marked as "Acquire", instead of the last 27 being "Object" 135 SN2014aa 10 01:05 J - acquire/focus 136-137 focuscheck 10 01:06 Ks - 0.8 focus 138 SN2014aa 10 01.08 Ks - - position check 139-163 SN2014aa 60 01:09 Ks 1.17 0.8 5x5x15" (no WTTM, no stars in field) # 10" N, 10" W offset. Running new sequence 164-188 SN2014aa 60 01:40 Ks 1.28 - 5x5x15" # 5" S, 5" E offset. 189-213 SN2014aa 60 02:16 Ks 1.44 0.8 5x5x15" # PS15sv 214-216 PS15sv 10 02:54 J 1.17 0.75 acquire/focus. WTTM 217-232 PS15sv 60 02:58 J 1.17 0.7-0.8 4x4x16" 233-248 PS15sv 60 03:21 H 1.16 0.7-0.8 4x4x16" 249-264 PS15sv 60 03:46 Ks 1.16 0.7 4x4x16" # S791-C 265 S791-C 5 04:10 J 2.3 1.0 acquire/focus 266-274 S791-C 10 04:12 J 2.3 1.0 3x3x30" 275-283 S791-C 10 04:16 H 2.4 1.0 3x3x30" 284-292 S791-C 10 04:20 Ks 2.5 1.0 3x3x30" # SN2015G 293-297 SN2015G 5 04:30 J 1.4 0.9 acquire/focus 298-306 SN2015G 60 04:34 J 1.4 0.8 3x3x30". SN easily visible in raw. 307-315 SN2015G 60 04:47 H 1.4 0.8 3x3x30". SN visible in raw. 316 SN2015G 60 05:00 Ks 1.4 - lost guiding. bad image (doubled). 317 SN2015G 5 05:01 Ks 1.4 - check image. alignment good. 318-326 SN2015G 60 05:03 Ks 1.4 0.8 3x3x30". SN visible in raw. # Offset 60" W, 20" S 327-335 SN2015G 60 05:16 Ks 1.3 0.8 3x3x30". 336-339 SN2015G 60 05:28 H 1.3 0.8 started 3x3x30". stopped when guider background too high.