Night Report 2016-02-22

Observing: Stefan Taubenberger, Tamar Faran, Markus Kromer

Support Team: N. Elias-Rosa

TAT:  Joe Lyman, Kate Maguire

Weather conditions

Start of night: scattered clouds, humidity ~ 55%, wind~ 2 m/s

Middle of night: few scattered clouds, humidity ~55%, wind ~ 6 m/s

End of night: few scattered clouds, humidity ~45%, wind ~ 2 m/s

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Calibrations

Evening: PESSTO_SkyFF_eve_UBVRi,

Morning: -

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00:10 UT: data analysis

00:30 UT: Follow-up: SN2016ado, gr13, 2400s, seeing ~1.1" *

01:15 UT: Follow-up: ASASSN-15og, gr11,2x2400s, seeing ~1"

03:20 UT: Standard: L745a - gr11+gr13+gr16, 15m, seeing ~1"

03:40 UT: Classification: Gaia16aea - gr13, 1500s, seeing ~1"

04:20 UT: Classification: AT2016aja - gr13, 1500s, seeing ~1"

04:55 UT: Attempted Classification: AT2016aiy**

05:20 UT: Classification: LSQ16gx - gr13, 2400s, seeing ~1"

06:15 UT: Follow-up: AT2015bm, gr13, 2x1800s, seeing ~1.2"

07:15 UT: Follow-up: SN2016adj, UBVRi + gr11+ g16, 1600s + 1200s + 200s, seeing ~0.8"

08:40 UT: Classification: AT2016acx: gr13, 1500s, seeing ~1"

09:15 UT: Standard: EG274, gr11 + gr13 + gr16, 180s, seeing ~1"

09:25 UT: End of the night

* We lost ~20m due to pointing problems of the telescope

** We tried to observe it with a finding chart from Bright Supernova page. Turned out that two objects are mixed up there.