WIYN 3.5m WHIRC Observing Report for 2016/04/26

Summary:

We observed 2 host galaxies and 1 standard star.

Name           | z      | B-Peak     | 20160426
PS1-14rx       | 0.06   | 20140316   | 75,100,..
ASASSN-15fj    | 0.045  | 20150316   | 100,..,..



P330-E in JHKs at 1.8, 1.2


Observer: Kara Ponder
Telescope Operator: Christian Soto, Amy Robertson
Conditions: Cirrus early. Clear most of the night
wind: 4.3 mph
Humidity: 43.1 %
Temperature: 7.1 C
Seeing: 0.6-0.7"
Moon: 77 %

Notes:
This night was originally scheduled for 2016/04/29 but was moved to 2016/04/26 to assist other observers that were weathered out on their nights. Unfortunately, this night was a prescheduled T&E night and they were not able to finish testing the night before. We lost 2 hours to T&E with ODI and the pointing camera.

Amy Robertson is a new OA that is being trained on WIYN.

Unable to use WTTM.

Lost around 20 minutes when trying to observe a standard star that was at zenith. (~5-10 minutes moving and setting up, ~10 minutes trying to observe)

Most of the first dither script for ASASSN-15fj was in "acquire" exposure type instead of "observe".

There was also a weird background pattern on the images ~324-327. I alerted the OAs and they noted it in their logs so someone could look into it.

We took 408 images.