| | 1 | These are Heather's notes on her UKIRT run, Jan 14-15, 2010. |
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| | 3 | The first night, Jan 14th, 2010 was cloudy, with lots of bad seeing. We didn't open until 11pm hst. None of the observations (MSBs) were good (none had fwhm < 1.2 or decent extinction). The wind was very high, hovering around 35+mph the entire night, and was up in the 50s and 60s the first half of the night. |
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| | 5 | We observed the following fields, all were rejected: |
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| | 7 | * MD03:00 |
| | 8 | * MD03:02 |
| | 9 | * MD03:10 |
| | 10 | * MD03:11 |
| | 11 | * MD03:12 |
| | 12 | * MD04:00 |
| | 13 | * MD04:01 |
| | 14 | * MD04:02 |
| | 15 | * MD04:10 |
| | 16 | * MD06:11 |
| | 17 | * MD06:12 |
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| | 19 | There was a bit of trickery with the MSBs- I stole MD06 from previous observing runs (we had the wrong semester installed on the summit). Chris Davis fixed this up for the next night - we had ALL the fields MD02, MD03, MD04, MD05, MD06, MD07, MD10 as possible targets for Jan 15th. This is a good thing - you want all targets in case the target you want to observe you can't (because of wind or other odd things). When MD02 was up, so was MD10, and if I couldn't observe MD02 at the start of the night because of wind, I would have gladly observed MD10 (hey, it's our time, might as well). |
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| | 21 | Jan 15th observing- no clouds, bad seeing, low winds (15mph or so). Stayed this way the entire night. Later in the night, the seeing improved a bit, became more variable, but improved to ~1.2. MD06 was unobservable due to the wind direction. |
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| | 23 | I've observed the following, all were rejected except as noted: |
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| | 25 | * MD02:00 |
| | 26 | * MD02:01 |
| | 27 | * MD02:10 |
| | 28 | * MD02:11 |
| | 29 | * MD02:12 |
| | 30 | * MD03:20 accepted |
| | 31 | * MD03:21 accepted |
| | 32 | * MD03:22 |
| | 33 | * MD03:01 |
| | 34 | * MD04:10 |
| | 35 | * MD04:11 |
| | 36 | * MD04:12 |
| | 37 | * MD04:20 accepted |
| | 38 | * MD04:21 accepted |
| | 39 | * MD06:20 cancelled halfway through because of wind |
| | 40 | * MD04:22 accepted |
| | 41 | * MD07:00 accepted |
| | 42 | * MD07:01 accepted |
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| | 44 | The operator (Tim) was quite disgusted by the seeing and the clouds.. Yuck... Usually it's 0.5, and we were mostly getting 1.5, if that. |
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