Night Reports 2018-02-12

Observers: Ken W. Smith, Jesse T. Palmerio,

Support Team: David O'Neill, Owen McBrien, Peter Clark, Erkki Kankare

TAT:  Cristina Barbarino, Morgan Fraser

TO: Pablo Arias (day) Fransisco Labrana (night)

Calibrations: EFOSC2 PESSTO_calib, PESSTO_bias

Sky flats: UBVRi evening flats, grz morning flats except g band

Weather: Thin sky with humidity 30%. Good seeing (0.6" to 1.2").

Comments: Focus was redone regularly throughout the night.

UT         Object            setup       exp          airmass  seeing  note

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EFOSC

23:44:00   Sky_flats_UBVRi                                     1.0"    only 4 out of 5 exposures for i band

00:27:00   Image_analysis                                      0.7"    

00:40:00   AT2018rw          gr13 sl1    600s         1.0      0.8"    class -> SNIa-91bg at z = 0.038 +2 days?

01:01:00   SN2017ifu         gr13 sl1    2700s        1.7      0.65"   obs 1 out of 3, target is setting, we plan to observe tomorrow and the next night

02:06:00   Std_L745a                                  1.03     0.8"    Standard star, high proper motion -> should update finder

02:42:00   SN2018ht          gr13 sl1    3600s        1.35     0.7"            

03:59:00   AT2018qb          gr13 sl1    600s         1.56     0.8"    class -> Galaxy? Ha, OIII and Hb at z = 0.08   

04:17:00   AT2018hi          gr13 sl1    300s         1.01     1.1"    class -> SNII at z = 0.027 around +15 days?

04:43:00   SN2017jfs         gr11 sl1    3600s        1.6      1.0"            

05:47:00   SN2017jfs         gr11 sl1    3600s        1.4      1.1"    

06:51:00   SN2017jfs         UBVgriz     300s each    1.25     0.8"       

07:42:00   PG1047                                     1.27     0.7"    Photometric field standard

07:53:00   SN2018ec          griz        2x200/90/60s 1.19     0.7"             

08:05:00   SN2017egv         gr11 sl1    1800s        1.4      0.7"    only 1 of 2 requested, S/N seemed good, may not need second observation?

08:52:00   Std_LTT3864                                1.35     0.7"    finished 8 min into twilight

09:13:00   AT2018pq          gr13 sl1    180s         1.1      1.0"    class -> SNII at z = 0.01 around +17 days?  

09:32:00   Sky_flats_grz                                       1.0"    g band was not executed, sky too bright, will be done tomorrow