Night Log 2013-07-08

SA: Tim
SO: Fred
Others: carl m, blaise t, christian h, tim-oliver, jonathan

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Summary
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cirrus brings good seeing. it is known.

calm, stable night with varying levels of cirrus, but only enough to slow us down significantly for about an hour. seeing was good to great all night and sub-arcsecond for long stretches in the 2nd half. regularly got guider EE50 of 1.3-1.4 with very stable stack. re-aligned once, but didn't strictly have to. the only significant technical issue was PCON's inability to perform F-P observations with >60 sec exposures which was documented the previous night. this requires full attention to fix ASAP so that we can complete the sky line calibration tests before i leave.

completed blocks for the following programs:
2013-1-RSA_OTH-010
2013-1-RSA_OTH-024
2013-1-RSA-004
2013-1-HET-004
2013-1-RSA_OTH-014
2013-1-UKSC_HET_OTH-001
2013-1-RSA_UW-001
2013-1-UW-009
2013-1-RSA-011
2013-1-UNC_RSA_RU-001

rejected block for 2013-1-UW-008 on account of clouds thickening too much during observation. an attempt for 2013-2-RSA-001 was thwarted by PCON bugs.