09/03/2019 Civil Brotherton @ WIRO Longslit (remote) Outside Temp(F) 63 (twilight) Outside Humidity(%RH) -- 54 (twilight) Wind Speed(MPH) -- 4 mph (twilight) Wind Direction -- 132 (twilight) Slit width 5 arcsec, set on September 7 empirically (41 ticks tonight) 900l/mm grating, sub-array center column 1050, width 360 Longslit focus set to 310 on instrument. Start of night: Seeing= 7.9 pix (0.38 arcsec per pixel) or 3.0 arcsec focus 0.115 (temp= 60 F) Later in night, seeing was 4.0 pix or 1.6 arcsec. Centered for field, collimation numbers at Dec 26:38 HA 02:13 0:02:16.7 -2:35:45.5 Fill N2 # 2 Index Object EXP secz UT T-Out TFocus Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ a001-10 flat 2.5 1:47 Lamp Current95% a011-20 CuAr 2 01:53 a021-30 Bias 0 01:56 a031-33 HZ44 60 1.78 2:30 60 0.120 Can't see SDSS 1521, try Mrk841... a034-35 Mrk841 300 1.78 2:50 59 0.120 snr=3 Clouds! Try overhead... a036-38 Zw229-015 900 1.00 3:10 58 0.120 snr=8-0 Above spectra useless. OK, watch bright star and wait...supposed to be better later. Cloud situation improving...try again. a039-43 Zw229-015 900 1.06 5:05 56 0.120 snr=15-25 Clouds for early exposures, but spectra get better at end a044-46 Mrk876 400 1.69 6:30 54 0.130 snr=30+ a047-49 KAZ102 400 1.41 6:52 55 0.130 snr=25 Temperature rising in dewar! Stop to refill... This is cause of increased noise. Data still looks good and useful. a050-52 PG2214 300 1.17 7:40 55 0.131 snr=47 a053-55 BD+28d4211 30 1.11 8:00 55 0.130 a056-58 S52116+81 360 1.37 8:08 55 0.130 snr=28 a059-61 NGC7469 200 1.24 8:33 56 0.130 snr=40 a062-64 Mrk1148 450 1.10 8:47 56 0.130 snr=40 a065-67 NGC 985 300 1.71 9:14 58 0.130 snr=30 a068-71 Mrk 6 360 1.48 9:52 57 0.130 snr=30 a072-74 3C120 300 1.50 10:25 57 0.130 snr=40+ a075-77 2MASS0414 400 1.71 10:45 57 0.130 snr=30+ twilight and clouds...stopping...