UT 2010-10-13 ============= VEGA+MIRC UT 20:48 = LT 19:48 start with B1-B2-B3-B4 E1-E2-W2-W1 POPs: S1-S2-E1-E2-W1-W2 4- 5- 1- 2- 1- 5 (Ref: W2) LT 19:40 (HD203280 = Alpha Cep) target, doing fiber alignment LT 20:12 recording a lot of data MIRC + VEGA LT 20:46 lost fringes on W2-baselines due to W2-problems LT 21:25 (HD195725) calibrator recording MIRC+VEGA LT 21:55 (HD203280 = Alpha Cep) target LT 22:05 we have fringes with MIRC on all baselines, but VEGA does not have light for beam 1 problem fixed, recorded MIRC+VEGA data LT 22:58 (HD192907 = Kappa Cep) calibrator recording data MIRC+VEGA LT 23:40 (HD205021) target poor seeing recording data MIRC+VEGA LT 00:15 (HD192907) calibrator recording data MIRC+VEGA LT 00:42 (HD205021) target LT 01:07 switching to: B1-B2-B3-B4 S1-S2-W2-W1 (config: S1-S2-W2, S2-W2-W1) LT 01:20 (HD29248) calibrator rather faint (H=4.5) and difficult to track for MIRC recording MIRC+VEGA data (VEGA on S1-S2-W2) likely low quality very poor seeing and some wind LT 02:15 (HD37022 = T1OriC) target fringes difficult to track flux on S1 and S2 is low (poor coating of these telescope mirrors) try flatfield (Coherent coadds=700, Save Number=10000 to accumulate, 10001 to reset) poor data quality (altitude=43 deg) LT 03:20 (HD43386) calibrator searching fringes takes a long time (alt=58 deg) seeing down to 4-5 ms LT 04:18 (HD37022 = T1OriC) target recording MIRC+VEGA data (altitude 50 deg) tracking maybe slightly better than before, but still fringes are lost frequently LT 05:22 (HD43386) calibrator problem finding fringes on S1 recording VEGA data without MIRC tracking recording MIRC data