APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Wednesday October 8, 2008 (MJD 54748) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Elena Malanushenko Viktor Malanushenko Jian Ge (UFL) Scott Fleming (UFL) Nathan Delee (UFL) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Marvels and Boss/Segue Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Clear sky and good seeing for whole night, but local clouds by the morning before twilight. -- got observations to the MARVELS: plate 3029, 9 exp by 12 sec - done plate 3018, A, 10 exp by 12 sec. - done plate 3018, B, 9 exp by 12 sec - done plate 3060, A, 2 exp by 45 min plate 3060, A, 1 exp by 20 min -- Completed the part of stripe 79 S from lambda 168 to -172 including ramps. Seeing was 1.2" - 1.3". Clouds stoped the imaging of this stripe. Problems: -- The guider did not work properly with pre-Marvel plates. Some messages are included to 'problem' section. We could work (so-so only) in to "simple' mode of guider. -- DIMM is still working unstable. Last night it spontaneously moved the Dimm telescope to zero position (i.e. to Nadir). ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- All systems are checked and they are ok. Collimate checked, it was set for +7.5 C and did not adjusted. 00:12Z start vent., louvers and door opened. Night: ------ Cart.2 plate 3029, A filed. marvels_pre jul08a, Used FK5 as it was still very bright. Guider did not work properly. It produced several kind of errors as stopped. We started over two times, rebooted guider Mac, but still could work in sample mode. Could not do pre-cal for Marvels plates, but was ok to do PostCal. Exact sos error messages are in problem section. 02:08:16Z postCalibs 02:15:28Z doNextScience 12 sec, 9 exposures 02:45:25Z postCalibs Cart.6 plate 3018, marvels_pre201, used FK5 rebooted guider Mac 03:36:45Z Field A: postCalibs 03:45:19Z Field A: doNextScience 12 sec, 10 exp. 55350-55359 04:27:41Z Field A: postCalibs 04:44:15Z Field B: postCalibs 04:50:47Z Field B: doNextScience 12 sec, 9 exp. 55364-55372 05:27:25Z Field B: postCalibs Cart.9 plate 3060 Marvel Sep08, field A, GSOGTF 05:49Z 1st 06:33Z 2nd 07:20Z 3rd 07:50Z switched to Imager scanStripe 79 S start_lambda 166. tccSetFocus -260. 08:13Z - goDrfit for stripe 79 S. Run #7729. Seeing 1.2-1.3"". Focus was happy from frame 18. Skippy was happy from the beginning. 08:19Z - Start ramp lambda 168, frame 18. 08:27Z - Start science lambda 170, frame 31. at 09:15Z coming clouds. It was approx. lambda=-172, frame 150. We waited some times and finished scan. 09:55Z - end ramp, lambda = -167, frame 185. Clear sky from 08:13Z till 09:15Z only. 10:00Z - Imager bias, run #7730, frames 8-30. 10:15Z switch to Spectro. 10:30:07Z Cart 7 plate 3121, segue aug08d 10:31:59Z gotoField -- GSOGTF 10:37:04Z preCalibs 10:53:45Z doNextScience 1500 Dark clouds, efficiency less than 10%. endNight is completed. ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Time Stripe Lambda Last Flavor Comments Start End Begin End Frame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7728 23:08Z 23:35Z 100 O 74.05 80.85 60 bias 7729 08:13Z 09:55Z 79 S 166.48 -167.77 185 science 7730 10:00Z 10:14Z 100 O -122.49 -118.93 38 bias ---=== IMAGING RUN DETAILS ===--- ---=== SKIPPY RESULTS ===--- Run Frame nFrames stars muErr muRms nuErr nuRms rot az el --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7729 11 4 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -0.00000 0 0 7729 63 4 47 2.700 0.203 -7.500 0.166 -0.01752 248 42 7729 116 4 41 3.500 0.169 -7.900 0.116 -0.01792 248 42 7729 166 4 58 3.800 0.216 -8.300 0.149 -0.01833 248 42 ---=== LTMATCH RESULTS ===--- Run Field nFields alt az nGood rowMean rowSig colMean colSig rot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7729 22 1 42 292 23 -0.732 0.176 3.050 0.169 -0.01026 7729 22 1 42 292 14 -0.539 0.137 3.009 0.119 -0.01012 7729 22 1 42 292 23 -0.218 0.159 3.024 0.168 -0.01017 7729 22 1 42 292 11 0.077 0.254 3.129 0.201 -0.01052 7729 22 1 42 292 21 0.546 0.305 3.076 0.201 -0.01034 7729 39 1 42 292 20 -1.490 0.163 3.033 0.103 -0.01020 7729 39 1 42 292 13 -0.997 0.194 3.102 0.218 -0.01043 7729 39 1 42 292 18 -0.636 0.186 3.200 0.196 -0.01076 7729 39 1 42 292 21 -0.386 0.189 3.280 0.116 -0.01103 7729 39 1 42 292 13 -0.133 0.228 3.287 0.164 -0.01105 7729 74 1 42 292 19 -0.288 0.169 3.394 0.205 -0.01141 7729 74 1 42 292 20 -0.084 0.153 3.659 0.253 -0.01230 7729 74 1 42 292 19 0.237 0.139 3.586 0.244 -0.01206 7729 74 1 42 292 10 0.602 0.155 3.625 0.249 -0.01219 7729 74 1 42 292 15 1.041 0.235 3.615 0.238 -0.01215 7729 90 1 42 292 17 -0.107 0.206 2.954 0.255 -0.00993 7729 90 1 42 292 16 0.126 0.180 3.109 0.180 -0.01045 7729 90 1 42 292 15 0.578 0.226 3.091 0.146 -0.01039 7729 90 1 42 292 24 1.004 0.150 3.024 0.235 -0.01017 7729 90 1 42 292 12 1.286 0.128 3.166 0.218 -0.01064 7729 125 1 42 292 16 -1.167 0.204 3.005 0.182 -0.01010 7729 125 1 42 292 12 -0.983 0.122 3.051 0.238 -0.01026 7729 125 1 42 292 15 -0.416 0.347 3.168 0.205 -0.01065 7729 125 1 42 292 15 -0.142 0.252 3.007 0.244 -0.01011 7729 125 1 42 292 16 0.264 0.371 2.935 0.175 -0.00987 7729 143 1 42 292 23 -0.578 0.173 3.135 0.166 -0.01054 7729 143 1 42 292 22 -0.152 0.149 3.156 0.166 -0.01061 7729 143 1 42 292 8 0.449 0.146 3.250 0.174 -0.01093 7729 143 1 42 292 14 0.573 0.259 3.326 0.117 -0.01118 7729 143 1 42 292 17 0.874 0.145 3.253 0.201 -0.01094 ---=== SPECTROSCOPY DATA SUMMARY ===--- Summary Checked (y/n): Y QA Procedures Done (y/n): Y UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 ----- sequence 55327, plate -9999 ------- 23:06 55327 0.0 bias 23:09 55328 0.0 bias ----- sequence 55329, plate 3129 ------- 23:32 55329 10.0 flat 23:35 55330 2.0 arc 23:45 55331 3.0 arc 23:47 55332 3.0 arc ----- sequence 55333, plate 3029 ------- 01:55 55333 10.0 flat 01:57 55334 2.0 arc 02:10 55335 10.0 flat 02:13 55336 2.0 arc 02:17 55337 13.0 target 02:21 55338 13.0 target 02:24 55339 13.0 target 02:27 55340 13.0 target 02:31 55341 13.0 target 02:34 55342 13.0 target 02:37 55343 13.0 target 02:41 55344 13.0 target 02:44 55345 13.0 target 02:47 55346 10.0 flat 02:50 55347 2.0 arc ----- sequence 55348, plate 3018 ------- 03:39 55348 10.0 flat 03:41 55349 2.0 arc 03:47 55350 13.0 target 03:51 55351 12.0 target 03:55 55352 13.0 target 03:59 55353 12.0 science 04:02 55354 12.0 science 04:15 55355 12.0 science 04:17 55356 12.0 science 04:20 55357 12.0 science 04:22 55358 12.0 science 04:25 55359 12.0 science 04:30 55360 10.0 flat 04:32 55361 2.0 arc 04:46 55362 10.0 flat 04:49 55363 2.0 arc 04:53 55364 12.0 target 04:56 55365 13.0 target 04:59 55366 12.0 target 05:03 55367 13.0 target 05:06 55368 13.0 target 05:11 55369 13.0 target 05:15 55370 13.0 target 05:20 55371 13.0 target 05:24 55372 13.0 target 05:29 55373 10.0 flat 05:32 55374 2.0 arc ----- sequence 55375, plate 3121 ------- 10:39 55375 10.0 flat 10:42 55376 2.0 arc 11:21 55377 1500.0 target ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:39Z 2 3029 258.17 -0.0076 69.35 -0.0009 92.02 0.0353 0.999870 04:18Z 6 3018 158.62 0.0012 38.52 0.0003 -78.24 0.0082 1.000160 05:58Z 9 3060 167.54 0.0009 51.89 -0.0003 -30.16 0.0045 1.000170 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:39Z 2 3029 0.99987 1283 2195 0 258 69.3 8.5 10 9 --- 1.1" 04:18Z 6 3018 1.00016 -1579 -86 0 159 38.5 9.6 6 319 --- 1.5" 05:58Z 9 3060 1.00017 -1678 -239 -25 168 51.9 11.7 5 352 --- 1.4" ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 22:08Z 54 39 2 333 (NNW) 506 - 22:40Z 54 39 5 312 (NW) 514 - 23:12Z 53 39 4 248 (WSW) 549 - 23:44Z 53 39 0 260 (W) 566 - 00:16Z 51 38 0 248 (WSW) 549 - 00:48Z 51 37 6 9 (N) 555 - 01:20Z 50 32 0 282 (WNW) 463 - 01:52Z 49 34 3 74 (ENE) 592 - 02:23Z 49 37 3 13 (NNE) 651 - 02:53Z 50 32 2 345 (NNW) 576 - 03:24Z 49 32 7 353 (NNW) 628 - 03:56Z 48 32 5 342 (NNW) 638 - 04:27Z 49 33 6 322 (NW) 628 - 04:57Z 50 34 1 325 (NW) 637 - 05:29Z 49 34 1 216 (SW) 556 - 06:00Z 52 28 2 332 (NNW) 437 - 06:33Z 48 34 1 240 (WSW) 738 - 07:05Z 49 31 4 332 (NNW) 588 - 07:37Z 48 31 6 3 (N) 667 - 08:09Z 48 33 5 353 (NNW) 647 - 08:39Z 48 32 8 358 (NNW) 669 - 09:09Z 50 31 10 330 (NNW) 636 - 09:40Z 47 32 8 314 (NW) 669 - 10:10Z 49 32 11 323 (NW) 633 - 10:40Z 49 31 11 328 (NNW) 584 - 11:12Z 49 31 10 335 (NNW) 554 - 11:44Z 50 29 8 307 (NW) 607 - 12:16Z 50 31 9 285 (WNW) 601 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 00:12Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 00:45Z - Opened enclosure. 11:60Z - Enclosure is on, doors and louvers are closed, and fans are off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 12:18Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 1 Counterweights at: 255 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 56 lbs, 25 psi Imager 197 lbs, 19 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_39_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: v6_4_0 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13_1 TCC: TCC 2.7.2.1 August 6 2004 sdssProcedures: SoS: v5_1_8 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.0290 -0.0300 Axial B 0.0370 0.0390 Axial C -0.0380 -0.0400 Trans D -0.7620 -0.7570 Lateral E 10.5791 10.5537 Lateral F 12.1666 12.1539 GALILS Commanded: 10450. -100. 5750. 8600. 10350. 10000. Actual: 10471. -76. 5755. 8616. 10374. 10023. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -11.72 8.60 496.70 640.50 PriOrient: 1.06 -11.65 8.77 495.77 639.59 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 12.0 Alt.: 30.000002 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.5640 18.5620 Axial B 15.6120 15.6080 Axial C 13.8180 13.8170 Trans D 15.1090 15.1170 GALILS Commanded: 1626572. 1528814. 1595662. -2950. -4550. Actual: 1626627. 1528808. 1595583. -2945. -4561. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -12.00 -28.00 -39.00 94.77 SecOrient: 1257.01 -12.03 -27.97 -39.17 94.72 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- Filename 02% 05% 10% 50% 90% 95% 98% ------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ sdR-b1-00055327.fit -5.6 -4.0 -2.3 2.3 7.6 9.6 10.9 sdR-b2-00055327.fit -7.9 -5.9 -4.2 1.6 7.9 9.2 10.6 sdR-r1-00055327.fit -6.9 -4.9 -3.1 2.1 7.8 10.0 12.1 sdR-r2-00055327.fit -7.9 -5.8 -3.8 1.5 7.8 9.9 13.0 ------------------- SOP guider error messages: --------- Image Size is 384 by 256 (should be 768 x 512) loading /data/spectro/guiderDarks/dark-20-54713.fits --------- Image Size is 384 by 256 (should be 768 x 512) loading /data/spectro/guiderDarks/dark-20-54713.fits Error: GMAKEHIST: Flat exposure is too faint. Counts in fibers must be > 500 ------------- Image Size is 384 by 256 (should be 768 x 512) loading /data/spectro/guiderDarks/dark-20-54713.fits -------- "2008-10-09 04:03:55Z: Using da centroider because flat does not exist 2008-10-09 04:03:55Z: Using da centroider because flattener does not exist"