Night Report 2019-08-27
Night Report Observers: Emma Callis, Seán Brennan
Support Team: Ihanec, Gromadzki
TAT: Maria Teresa Botticella, Hanin Kuncarayakti, Janet Chen
Calibrations:
skyflats
EFOSC: Bias
Calib Calib Gr18 & Gr20
Weather: Start: Strong Winds - 13m/s - clouds clear -seeing 1.79" although jumping around alot
Middle: Strong Winds - 10m/s - clouds clear -seeing 1.3" End: Strong Winds - 12.5m/s - clouds clear -seeing 1.05"
Comments: Pointing restrictions at beginning of night - 22:30pm - Targets > +30RA only
DIMM seeing down at ltw observation - got seeing from aqq image of standard
DIMM broken - using Las Campanas weather [http://weather.lco.cl]
DIMM returned at La Silla 03:30am
Time (ut)
| Target | Observation | Seeing | Comments | 23:20pm | eg131 | Standard GR 11,16,13 slit1.5
| *** | | 23:45 | SN2019ltw | Gr13 | ~1.35 | Not seen in 10s acq image - bad seeing - blended with galaxy
| 23:51 | SN2019fdr | Gr18 | ~0.9 | Seeing erratic - stabilized at ~0.9" at beginning of observations
| 00:43 | SN2019fdr | Gr18 | 1.06 | | 01:35 | AT2019ope | Classification | 1.12 | Type Ia - z ~0.06 (SNID)
| 02:00 | SN2019lwu | GR13 | 0.98 |
| 02:46 | SN2019hge | Gr11 | 1.05 | | 03:37 | SN2019hge | Gr11 | 1.25 | | 04:32 | SN2019hge | Gr16 | 1.05 | | 05:57 | SN2019hge | Gr16 | 1.2 | Error with Guiding @ 05:46pm - Resolved @05:53am
| 07:21 | VMA2 | Standard | 0.9 | Guiding error back @ 7:05am
| 07:33 | Sn2019mrz | Gr13 | 0.8 | | 08:27 | SN2019osy | Gr11 | 1.1 | Had to fine tune PA angle - struggle to put slit on galaxy - significant delay ~20mins - weak AGN - z=0.0744
| 09:13 | AT2019oet | Classification | 1.05 | ? | 09:29 | AT2019oqr | Classification | 1.2 | Type Ia - z~0.04
| 10:02 | VMA2 | Gr11,16,13 slit1 + 1.5
| 0.88 | | | Skyflats | grz | | |
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