Night Report 2017-01-16

Observers: Jesper Sollerman, Francesco Taddia

TAT on duty: Morgan Fraser, Joe Anderson

Support team: Cristina Barbarino, Anders Nyholm, Emir Karamehmetoglu

Daytime calibrations: 

EFOSC2: PESSTO_bias, PESSTO_calib

Twilight calibrations:

00:00 UVi sky flats

00:20 slit position check

00:25 image analysis

Weather: clouds in the afternoon,

low clouds at the beginning of the night with humidity ~70%.

seeing at 1.5" at 00:38

seeing at 1.2" at 00:01

seeing at 1.0" at 02:00

seeing at 0.7" at 03:45

UT/Target/slit/grism/time spent(min) /description

00:41  gd71            1/1.5     gr11+gr16+gr13      25    Spectral standard.                          

01:08  SN2016ezh   1           gr11+gr16                40    FOLLOW-UP.  Blue spectrum, with strong emission features, similar to the one taken on Dec 22.

01:56  OGLE17abx   1           gr13                         52     FOLLOW-UP. Type II with long rise, good spectrum.

02:47  SN2016aqf   1            gr13                         52     FOLLOW-UP. Nebular Type II spectrum, good quality.

03:41  SN2016iyd    1            gr11                         40     FOLLOW-UP. Type II spectrum, broad features, good quality.

04:16  AT2016jbu   1            gr11+gr16               40     FOLLOW-UP. High S/N, blue spectrum with Balmer and He emission lines, also narrow P-Cygni.

05:02  SN2016hvl   1             gr13                         40     FOLLOW-UP. Type Ia, good spectrum.

05:41  L745a          1            gr11+gr16+gr13      15     Spectral standard.   

05:56 image analysis

06:06  AT2017hm  1             gr13                         17    CLASSIFICATION. Normal SN Ia before or around peak at z=0.02-0.03.

attempted to acquire SN2016B, too close to the moon.

06:27  SN2017hn   1            gr11+gr16                60    FOLLOW-UP. Type Ia, good spectrum.

07:31  ATLAS17abx 1           gr13                          27    CLASSIFICATION. Normal SN Ia about a week after peak at z=0.06.

07:59  ATLAS17adf 1           gr13                          27    CLASSIFICATION. Looks like the galaxy spectrum taken by SDSS, z=0.011.

08:24  LTT3864     1            gr11+gr16+gr13      15    Spectral standard.

08:38  AT2017hl   1             gr13                          22   CLASSIFICATION. Type Ib  in the center of the galaxy (z=0.023).

09:00 End of night