03:58:06 AM: Start collect program 03:51:32.850: Begin flat.6000 Alpha Boo CH4 1140 hi-med ----- We are doing titan for the first 2 hours then Kristen's project. Alpha sco isn't up until 5:30 so we had to shift Harpers time around 03:52:31.450: Begin aboo.6000 Alpha Boo CH4 1140 hi-med ----- Dewar has n/s slit Electonics in the north dewar in the south ----- pair one is garbage since I didn't do an edge, but fixed it during pair two. Skip 1 2 ----- pair 6 is excellent ----- going to titan ----- Seeing seems to be pretty poor (no suprise) 04:03:35.400: Begin flat.6001 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 04:04:33.950: Begin tit.6001 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med ----- i tried to search around for the signal, but nothing was obvious. We are going to integrate once at the nominal position and then we'll see if we detect titan. If not I'll go to a few stars to exercise our pointing and come back. ----- Brian couldn't see Titan when we offset to it so this is a blind point ----- we are going to go to Tau4 Ser, but instead of pointing straight to it we are going to an SAO pointing star and offsetting to ti to test our pointing capabilites and at the same time our infrared boresight ----- pointing sucks i think. WE are going to go offest from Alpha Libra and then back to Titan. Then we'lll fish around a bit for Titan and hopefully see it in a diff 04:34:07.350: Begin flat.6002 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 04:35:07.550: Begin tit.6002 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med ----- got it, i could see it after almost the full observation in accum 04:41:57.700: Begin flat.6003 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med ----- shifted .8 arcsec south before starting 6003 to center nod pairs in the slit ----- shifted .8 arcsec south before starting 6003 to center nod pairs in the slit 04:42:59.100: Begin tit.6003 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med ----- we are on it good now. I should be able to hand guide to keep us on it ----- however the seeing is poor ----- seeing is really poor making keeping track of things difficult 04:48:56.300: Begin flat.6004 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 04:49:56.000: Begin tit.6004 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 04:55:31.050: Begin flat.6005 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 04:56:30.650: Begin tit.6005 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:02:43.350: Begin flat.6006 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:03:43.750: Begin tit.6006 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:09:28.950: Begin flat.6007 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:10:28.500: Begin tit.6007 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:16:26.950: Begin flat.6008 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:17:27.450: Begin tit.6008 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:22:55.350: Begin flat.6009 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:23:54.000: Begin tit.6009 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:29:31.800: Begin flat.6010 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med 05:30:30.700: Begin tit.6010 Titan CH4 1140 hi-med ----- file 6009 was fantastic ----- most all the files from 6002 on are good ----- having some issues with computers for the operator unfotrunately. ----- going to Ceree Now 05:54:21.500: Begin flat.6011 Ceres Ne II 779.377 med 05:54:57.300: Begin cer.6011 Ceres Ne II 779.377 med ----- file 6011 is garbage, integration time is wrong and saturated black 05:55:39.350: Begin flat.6012 Ceres Ne II 779.377 med 05:56:18.100: Begin cer.6012 Ceres Ne II 779.377 med ----- Going to Del Vir to check poingint close to NGC 4826 ----- very close to daad on, for the pointing. I adjusted the focus a bit. Nowe we are going to ngc ----- pointed to the middle of the galaxy. ----- guider problems 06:11:37.450: Begin flat.6013 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- nominal pisition in the middle of the galaxy 06:12:25.050: Begin n4826.6013 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- pwv=2.27 06:17:30.400: Begin flat.6014 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:18:18.550: Begin n4826.6014 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:23:19.300: Begin flat.6015 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:24:07.550: Begin n4826.6015 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- i will be setting the offsets in the header to show our position relative to this center position ----- at the 1 arcsec east position now 06:29:49.100: Begin flat.6016 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:30:42.400: Begin n4826.6016 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:36:03.050: Begin flat.6017 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:36:55.650: Begin n4826.6017 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:41:56.850: Begin flat.6018 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:42:44.650: Begin n4826.6018 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:48:06.750: Begin flat.6019 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:48:54.350: Begin n4826.6019 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- we have been guiding the entire time on the galaxy 06:53:58.650: Begin flat.6020 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:54:46.050: Begin n4826.6020 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 06:59:52.750: Begin flat.6021 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:00:40.450: Begin n4826.6021 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- noticed that I actually set up in wrong position. Going to shift the echelle ----- shifted the grating and starting again, but working at 3 East, will repeat center and move west after this ----- doing 3 east 07:08:11.600: Begin flat.6022 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:08:59.650: Begin n4826.6022 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:14:57.300: Begin flat.6023 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:15:45.350: Begin n4826.6023 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:20:38.550: Begin flat.6024 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:21:26.250: Begin n4826.6024 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:26:40.050: Begin flat.6025 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- 6025 is at -1 east of nominal 07:27:27.850: Begin n4826.6025 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:32:22.550: Begin flat.6026 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:33:10.550: Begin n4826.6026 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:38:15.350: Begin flat.6027 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:39:03.100: Begin n4826.6027 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- doing -2 east 07:44:59.900: Begin flat.6028 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:45:47.900: Begin n4826.6028 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:50:42.050: Begin flat.6029 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:51:34.200: Begin n4826.6029 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:56:27.450: Begin flat.6030 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 07:57:15.100: Begin n4826.6030 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 08:02:24.400: Begin flat.6031 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- doing 3 west now 08:03:12.200: Begin n4826.6031 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 08:08:05.000: Begin flat.6032 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 08:08:53.100: Begin n4826.6032 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 08:13:50.350: Begin flat.6033 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 08:14:38.500: Begin n4826.6033 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- going back to center just to pound it. I think this is pretty hopeless. The line we want is only 28 km/sec away from that water line and out spectral resolution is probably no better than 20 km/sec. Not a very good combination. 08:20:51.300: Begin flat.6034 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 08:21:39.450: Begin n4826.6034 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 08:26:41.550: Begin flat.6035 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med 08:27:29.350: Begin n4826.6035 NGC 4826 Ne II 779.377 med ----- Going back to Ceres to get a divisor for this exact wavelength set up. 08:34:41.700: Begin flat.6036 Ceres Ne II 779.377 med 08:35:15.300: Begin cer.6036 Ceres Ne II 779.377 med ----- I think the slit is not quite perfectly n/s but maybe a tad tilted. 08:52:45.350: Begin flat.6037 Alpha Sco Ne II 780.4 hi-med 08:53:22.450: Begin asco.6037 Alpha Sco Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- focused and set up on Alpha Sco. ----- we will take one nodded file her an d then one scan file ang then move on to G9.62 08:56:13.550: Begin flat.6038 Alpha Sco Ne II 780.4 hi-med 08:56:47.900: Begin asco.6038 Alpha Sco Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- we don't have a guide star here at alpha sco. ----- we are getting a guide star set up hopefully that we can guide on for most of the scans. We'll see. we do have one ----- keep track of where we are by using the offsets for the scan so look at those if you want to reconstruct what we have done. 09:05:49.300: Begin flat.6039 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 09:06:24.750: Begin g9.6039 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- we pickd the wrong side of the guider to put the guide star on so we are only getting guiding hlep at the very start. However everything looks good. We will adjust to a different star after this file is done. ----- adjusted to have a better guide star, should be guiding through 55 arcsec with of the scan (over half) ----- guiding again ----- 10 north position 09:26:03.950: Begin flat.6040 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 09:26:39.000: Begin g9.6040 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- 20 north position 09:44:20.150: Begin flat.6041 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 09:44:55.900: Begin g9.6041 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- grating shift shift in the first scan (along the orders) ----- doing the -10 N position 10:02:36.100: Begin flat.6042 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 10:03:10.800: Begin g9.6042 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 10:20:37.700: Begin flat.6043 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 10:21:13.550: Begin g9.6043 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- 6043 is the -20 position ----- now doing -25 position 10:38:52.850: Begin flat.6044 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 10:39:28.450: Begin g9.6044 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- little baounce in scan 1 ----- pretty strong bounce by end of scan ----- now doing +25 position 10:56:59.250: Begin flat.6045 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 10:57:35.250: Begin g9.6045 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- seeing is about 0.7 arcsec ----- pwv has dropped down to 1.27 mm ----- now doing +15 position 11:15:06.600: Begin flat.6046 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 11:15:42.050: Begin g9.6046 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 11:32:57.050: Begin flat.6047 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 11:33:32.650: Begin g9.6047 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- looking at the current conditions page it says the seeing has blown up to 1.34 arcsec. I'm suprised. It sure doesn't look that bad on our screen where we are seeing the guide star. Hmmm ----- seeing dropped back down to 0.7", maybe a bubble of air over the summit 11:51:01.550: Begin flat.6048 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 11:51:37.400: Begin g9.6048 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- something really odd in the first few frames of scan 3 making a dark stribe through the neII order only? I'm not sure how you do that? ----- mabe a cosmic ray hit in the first frame of scan 3 ----- doing the last position at -15 N 12:09:07.700: Begin flat.6049 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med 12:09:42.200: Begin g9.6049 G9.62_0.19 Ne II 780.4 hi-med ----- going to zenith to rotate the dewar for the uranus observations 12:40:00.200: Begin g9.6050 Beta Peg H2 S(2) 816 hi-med ----- accidently saved g9.6051, it is garbage looking at black body ----- sorry that was 6050 that is garbage 12:58:05.100: Begin flat.6051 Beta Peg H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 12:58:44.550: Begin bpeg.6051 Beta Peg H2 S(2) 816 hi-med ----- going to Victoria to get a divisor 13:05:59.650: Begin flat.6052 Victoria H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:06:35.100: Begin vic.6052 Victoria H2 S(2) 816 hi-med ----- going to check pointing at R Aqr. ----- Looked perfect. Time to go to Uranus! ----- Going to nod Uranus off the slit so just going to nod n/s ----- got a guide star and here we go! 13:17:40.400: Begin flat.6053 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:18:16.350: Begin uran.6053 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:25:05.050: Begin flat.6054 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:25:40.600: Begin uran.6054 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:32:57.150: Begin flat.6055 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:33:33.150: Begin uran.6055 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:40:47.050: Begin flat.6056 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:41:22.700: Begin uran.6056 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:48:33.850: Begin flat.6057 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:49:09.200: Begin uran.6057 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med ----- pwv=1.2 mm (it doesn't get much better than this) ----- putting the miror in to make sure there are no suprisees. It looked good to me. 13:56:29.900: Begin flat.6058 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 13:57:05.800: Begin uran.6058 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:03:46.900: Begin flat.6059 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:04:22.950: Begin uran.6059 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:11:08.200: Begin flat.6060 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:11:44.150: Begin uran.6060 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med ----- place mirror back in to check the uranus positoin again ----- we moved 1 E and -.7 North to be perfectly centered 14:20:26.650: Begin flat.6061 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:21:02.700: Begin uran.6061 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:28:12.950: Begin flat.6062 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:28:49.200: Begin uran.6062 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:35:58.600: Begin flat.6063 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:36:34.700: Begin uran.6063 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:43:09.900: Begin flat.6064 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:43:45.800: Begin uran.6064 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:50:45.150: Begin flat.6065 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:51:21.150: Begin uran.6065 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:57:54.200: Begin flat.6066 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 14:58:30.200: Begin uran.6066 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med ----- pwv=1.28 15:05:09.600: Begin flat.6067 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med 15:05:45.300: Begin uran.6067 Uranus H2 S(2) 816 hi-med ----- after 25 nods we turned off the guide camera since the sun is coming up ----- Calling it a night