Observing Notes - 06/13/2017
Observatory: WIRO
Observers  : Jackson Cole, Cristilyn Cortez, Kyla Jarka, Daniel Rivera 

Equipment Notes:
- CCD Window Heater TURNED ON before leaving. Humidity has been around 83% for the majority of the night, so we thought it might be a good idea to turn it on.

Notes:
- We were forced to close the dome at several points during the night due to high winds, which put a strain on the flats we were able to take at the beginning of the night and then the data we attempted to take later in the evening.
- WASP-3b is very close to two neighboring stars in the field, and defocusing enough to get an adequate number of counts results in an overlap in the PSFs of the target and the neighbors. We attempted to observe with varying degrees of defocusing, but found that if the target was just small enough to avoid overlap, the number of counts we were getting were at best ~1/6 of the desired number of counts before overexposure. There is a PNG of the image slice in the data directory for tonight that was taken with focus ~-3 that shows an example of the overlap.
- The humidity has been hovering around 83-85% for the duration of the evening, and the winds are projected to remain about the same for the rest of the night (as of 01:46). We are therefore stopping observing as we believe that our in-transit data isn't great (wind/humidity/lack-of-resolution), and at this point, all we can obtain is out of transit data, but again, we are having trouble figuring out how to handle the crowded field.
- We looked for alternative targets on the Transit Finder service but found none that were suitable to observe before astronomical twilight ended.
- As of 01:50, we are shutting things down and heading home.