Night report 2017-03-07

Observers: Anders Nyholm, Cristina Barbarino

TAT on duty: Joe Anderson, Lluís Galbany

Support team: Francesco Taddia, Christoffer Fremling, Jesper Sollerman

Daytime calibrations: PESSTO_calib, PESSTO_bias

Morning calibrations: PESSTO_calib-onlyarcs

Weather: Some clouds at the horizon at sunset. Later clear skies.

Seeing: 0.95 arcsec (00:15 UT), 0.60 arcsec (05:25 UT), 0.50 arcsec (09:00 UT)

UT/Target/RA/DEC/time spent(min)/slit/grism or filter, description

00:14  SN2016iae       04:12:05.53 -32:51:44.7   60   Gr16, follow-up. Clear trace. SN 2016ija in the same slit, but fainter trace.

01:08  Image analysis

01:27   AT2017azw      04:22:49.71 -82:04:09.6   60   Gr 11 + 16, follow-up. Clear traces.

02:37   AT2017pn        04:46:24.58 -11:59:18.2   32   Gr13, follow-up. Clear trace.

03:09   LTT3864         10:32:13.90  -35:37:42.4   14   Gr11 + gr13 + gr16, standard.

03:27   AT2016iyd       07:37:09.76 -52:19:04.1   52   Gr11, follow-up. Moderately clear trace.

04:20   ATLAS17bas   11:07:35.49 +22:51:04.4  60   G11+g16, follow-up. Clear traces.

05:25   PS17bgm        11:28:24.06 +30:06:26.5  33   Gr13, classification. Likely a AGN spectrum.

05:57   PS17bie          12:00:04.60 +29:53:17.7  23   Gr13, classification. Likely a galaxy spectrum.

06:18   AT2017byv      10:28:27.71 +12:42:05.9  30   Gr13, classification. Both SN and host galaxy core in slit. SN Type II around max. Host redshift 0.032 from SIMBAD. 

06:52   SN2016B        11:55:04.24 +01:43:06.7  53   Gr13, follow-up. Our own initiative, to help fill the schedule. Moderately clear trace.

07:43   ATLAS17bjp    10:40:34.72 -02:20:36.6   12  Gr13, classification. SN Type Ia around max. Clear trace. SNID gives host redshift 0.041.

07:54   Gaia17aor       12:14:16.02 -38:05:48.0    20  Gr13, classification. SN Type Ia around max. Clear trace. SNID gives redshift 0.05. 

08:10   ATLAS17bnl    13:15:04.15 -24:48:05.4    20  Gr13, classification. Clear trace. Could be a SN Type IIn? SIMBAD gives host redshift 0.041.

08:25   ATLAS17bid    10:52:10.55 -27:47:51.7     20   Gr13, classification. Clear trace. SN Type II post max. SNID gives redshift 0.037.

08:43   ATLAS17bkt    15:19:18.86 +28:13:44.4   10  Gr13, classification. Clear trace. Blue continuum.

08:53   EG274             16:23:33.75 -39:13:47.5    15  Gr11 + gr13 + gr16, standard.

09:10   AT2017bzt       13:03:09.70 -39:25:17.2    32   Gr13, classification. Clear trace. SN Type Ia post max. SNID gives redshift 0.11.