WIYN 3.5m WHIRC and HexPak Observing Report for 2015/11/30

Summary:

We observed 7 host galaxies, 2 photometric standard stars, and 2 spectroscopic standard stars.

Name                       | z          | B-Peak      | 20151130-H | 20151130-W |
SN2012et                   | 0.025      | 20120916    | ..,..      | ..,91,..   |
SN2013fw                   | 0.01695    | 20131107    | 60,..      | ..,..,..   |
SN2013fn                   | 0.0270     | 20131007    | 30,..      | ..,..,..   |
SN2012fm                   | 0.014      | 20121028    | 60,..      | ..,..,..   |
ASASSN-15ho                | 0.0460     | 20150422    | 60,..      | ..,..,..   |
ASASSN-15hg                | 0.029771   | 20150420    | 60,..      | ..,..,..   |
SN2013be                   | 0.06585    | 20130416    | 60,..      | ..,..,..   |


Photometric Standards:
P525-E in JHKs at 1.2
P211-C in JHKs at 1.0

Spectroscopic Standards:
BD+284211 in 2 fibers
Hiltner 600 in 5 fibers


Prop-ID: 2015B-0347
Observer: Kara Ponder
Telescope Operator: Doug Williams
Conditions: Clear
wind: 3.4 mph
Humidity: 42 %
Temperature: 6.2 C
Seeing: 0.7-1.2"
Moon: 69 %


Notes:
WHIRC: When starting, we had to power cycle the DHE again. We tried to run before starting XTCS so the telescope could not communicate to the MOP and it hung on start up. This took about 30-45 minutes to solve.
       During WHIRC calibrations the WHIRC temperature monitor alarm kept going off. We 'reset temperature monitor' on the biasing GUI.
       After calibrations we debiased and depowered. When we came back to WHIRC for SN2012et, it had zero counts and we power cycled the DHE. We did not have any temperature monitor problems this time. 
       Used WTTM on SN2012et.
       

HexPak: Di Harmer checked the configuration and stayed for skyflats and the first target.
        We found that some of the guide star positions were not as accurate as we needed. Started doing pointing checks on several stars to confirm position. We did not double check one position first and took a sky spectrum.


We took 242 WHIRC images and 90 HexPak spectra.