Night Report 2016-09-23
Observing: Joe Anderson & Lawrence Short
Support Team: Simon Prentice & Phil James
TAT: Lluís Galbany & Stefan Taubenberger
Start of night: UT 23:59 = LST 19:29
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Moon
Age: 22.62 days
Illumination: 41%
Rises: ~06:00
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Weather conditions
Start of night: Clear, seeing~1.2"
Middle of night: Clear, seeing~1.4"
End of night: Clear
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Calibrations
Daytime: EFOSC bias, spec arcs and flats.
Evening: No flats, lost connection with all cameras in the afternoon, took a while to be fixed.
Morning:
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All observations with EFOSC
23:30 Spec Std - LTT7379
23:50 Phot Std - marka
00:05 AT2016gjy (classification) -- ?
00:20 AT2016gjn (classification) -- ?
00:49 SN2009ip follow-up aborted during B filter due to poor seeing
01:22 AT2016gls classifcation aborted, target too faint after 60s
01:29 AT2016gkt (classification) -- Ia couple of weeks past max --z~0.05
Seeing ~1.7"
01:50 AT2016gjs (classification) 1.5" slit -- Spectrum very noisy
02:07 AT2016gld (classification) 1.5" slit -- very noisy (probably Ia)
02:30 AT2016gle classification attempted with 1.5" slit but no flux
02:48 AT2016gip (classification) 1.5" slit -- ?
Seeing started to improve
03:17 SN2016gkg (follow-up) g11 & g16 (1.0" slit)
04:28 SN2016gkg (follow-up) UVBRi
04:44 SN2016frp (follow-up) g13
05:38 AT2016glp (classification) -- Ia around max -- z~0.08
06:17 Phot Std - PG2336
06:25 Spec Std - Feige110
06:49 AT2016glr (classification) -- Ia around max -- z~0.15
07:29 AT2016gke (classification) -- Ia around max -- z~0.08
07:56 AT2016glb (classification) -- young Type II around max
08:23 AT2016gmb (classification) -- Ia a few days before max -- z~0.06
08:44 AT2016gho (classification) -- Ia
09:02 OGLE16dmu (classification) -- ?
09:35 Spec Std - L745a
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End of night: UT 09:10 = LST 04:41