Night report page - 20130404

Observers: Stefan Taubenberger, Stephan Hachinger

Data reduction team: Nancy Elias-Rosa, Antonia Morales-Garoffolo

3rd regular night of subrun with EFOSC

Observations w/o problems unless noted otherwise (**).

initial weather cond:         humidity ~20%, wind ~10m/s, clear sky

middle-of-night weather cond: humidity ~18%, wind ~10m/s, clear sky

late-night weather cond:      humidity ~15%, wind ~8m/s,  clear sky

afternoon   PESSTO_calib and PESSTO_bias OBs executed

            slit position - specpol      OB  executed

UT 23:00    start of night

UT 23:00    [specpstd  HD 80558]                               gr13

** half-wave plate stuck

** removed half-wave plate manually in dome, lost ~50min until problem identified &

   resolved

UT 23:55    [std       l745a]

** did not find star due to proper motion. aborted.

UT 00.00    acq  OGLE-2013-SN-016 

** rotated by rotator offset angle = 160° (Tried different angles manually in 

   telescope control, starting from parallactic rot. offset angle = 167° and moved 

   guide probe around until finally a guide star was found. due to several error msgs

   etc. etc. this all took 50 min.)

--- SEEING DIMM 0.8-1.2'', image 1.1'' ---

UT 00.50    followup  OGLE-2013-SN-016          airmass=1.8    gr11            sl 1.0''

UT 02:30    classif.  LSQ13sd                   airmass=1.7    gr13            sl 1.0''

* used narrowslit acq. template, slit pos y = 992

--- SEEING image 1.1'' ---

UT 03:15    std.      LTT3864                   airmass=1.0    gr11/16/13[x2]  sl 1.0''

* used narrowslit acq. template, slit pos y = 992

UT 03:35    acq.      SN2013ak and LSQ13th

** unclear problems with telescope / control sw, lost 40min

--- SEEING DIMM 0.7'', image 1.2'' ---

UT 04:15    classif.  LSQ13th                   airmass=1.6    gr13            sl 1.0''

** used movetoslit acq. template to exclude that this causes the problems

--- focus sequence ---

--- SEEING image 1.0'' ---

UT 05:00    followup  LSQ13fn                   airmass=1.2    gr13            sl 1.0''

* used narrowslit acq. template, slit pos y = 992

--- SEEING DIMM 0.8'', image 1.3'' --- 

UT 07:20    followup  LSQ13sj                   airmass=1.8    gr13            sl 1.0''

* used narrowslit acq. template, slit pos y = 992

--- SEEING DIMM 0.8'' ---

UT 09:20    class CSS130403:150213+103846       airmass=1.7    gr13            sl 1.0''

* used narrowslit acq. template, slit pos y = 992

--- SEEING DIMM 0.8'', image 1.1'' ---

UT 09:55    std       EG274                     airmass=1.1    gr11/16/13[x2]  sl 1.0''

* used narrowslit acq. template, slit pos y = 992

* obs in twilight

UT 10:15    arclamps

UT 10:40    end of night