APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Sunday May 10, 2009 (MJD 54962) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Dmitry Bizyaev Audrey Simmons Steph Snedden (fiducial tables) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Photometric with excellent seeing (1.0-1.3"), with a brief spike to 3.5" at 09:30Z. We observed the following MARVELS plates: Cart 5, plate 3417B Cart 3, plate 3277A&B Cart 6, plate 3416A Cart 9, plate 3410A Cart 7, plate 3489A&B Cart 1, plate 3504 (pre-selection) No broken fibers found. Please check the mirror since it was very dusty this weekend. Thank you. Please see problem section for miscellaneous watcher error messages that might need to be addressed. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- Mistakenly took two sets of cals on a MARVELS post-selection plate, attempting to check the spectral collimation. Obviously SOS was unhappy. We did not change the collimation from last night, so it is currently set for ~11C. Steph checked the new fiducial tables, but did not install them since we are waiting to complete the pointing model on another night. Started ventilating at 01:02Z. There was an altitude slip when checking of the fiducials, but the balance was fine and the fiducials were all okay. The panel downstairs was reset and then everything was happy again. Mounted cart 5, MARVELS plate 3417. Night: ------ 01:52Z - Opened enclosure to clear skies. 01:55Z - Sunset. ** 02:11Z - goToField cart 5, MARVELS plate 3417B, HD68988. Used fk5 with spiralPattern to find field. 02:25Z - Start calibrations (exposure name, exposure time, average PMT value) T02:25:29.720.fits[0] 15.000000 47967.800781 T02:33:05.860.fits[0] 160.000000 179.837494 T02:39:19.040.fits[0] 15.000000 47983.535156 02:50Z - Start 50 min exposure. Seeing 1.4" T02:47:22.060.fits[0] 3000.000000 28.593666 No broken fibers. ** 03:24Z - Evening twilight (18 degree) 03:39Z - Calibrations. T03:39:30.640.fits[0] 15.000000 47907.667969 T03:42:27.390.fits[0] 160.000000 177.768753 T03:47:19.680.fits[0] 15.000000 47759.667969 03:40Z - Mounted cart 3, MARVELS plate 3277A, HD80606. GSFOGTF. 03:44Z - Began 50 min exposure. Seeing 1.1" T03:50:44.490.fits[0] 3000.000000 32.753334 No broken fibers. ** 04:42Z - Calibrations. T04:42:41.490.fits[0] 15.000000 47658.867188 T04:46:50.020.fits[0] 160.000000 178.237503 T04:52:00.450.fits[0] 15.000000 47544.332031 04:45Z - Mounted cart 6, MARVELS plate 3416A, HD89307. Had trouble finding the field with guide stars on goToField, fk5, and offsets from the previous night within the SOPGUI. However, we were finally able to find the field by inputing previous offsets in azimuth, altitude, and rotator into the TCC directly. 04:26Z - Began 50 min exposure. Seeing 1.3" T05:04:26.290.fits[0] 3000.000000 29.781666 No broken fibers. ** 05:56Z - Calibrations. T05:56:23.840.fits[0] 15.000000 48038.464844 T05:59:12.960.fits[0] 160.000000 176.812500 T06:04:13.530.fits[0] 15.000000 47830.332031 05:57Z - Mounted cart 3, MARVELS plate 3277B, GJ436. 06:15Z - (Accidentally started a TIO exposure when wanting to start a science exposure. It was aborted) 06:16Z - 50 min exposure. Seeing 1.1" T06:16:18.250.fits[0] 3000.000000 29.649334 No broken fibers. ** 07:08Z - Calibrations. T07:08:18.820.fits[0] 15.000000 47118.000000 T07:11:36.130.fits[0] 160.000000 176.081253 T07:16:17.410.fits[0] 15.000000 46983.933594 07:09Z - Mounted cart 9, MARVELS plate 3410A, K4. Used guide stars with large exposure time and offset to find the field. 07:29Z - 50 min exposure. Seeing 1.2" T07:29:02.570.fits[0] 3000.000000 41.584000 No broken fibers. ** 08:20Z - Calibrations. T08:20:55.360.fits[0] 15.000000 47245.601562 T08:23:02.000.fits[0] 160.000000 175.643753 T08:27:41.610.fits[0] 15.000000 47069.535156 08:23Z - Mounted cart 7, MARVELS plate 3489A, FIELD1349. Used fk5 to find field. 08:32Z - 50 min exposure. Seeing 1.2" T08:32:18.130.fits[0] 3000.000000 47.686333 No broken fibers. ** 09:24Z - Calibrations. T09:24:08.390.fits[0] 15.000000 46679.265625 T09:26:33.270.fits[0] 160.000000 172.225006 T09:31:19.880.fits[0] 15.000000 46796.800781 09:25Z - Switched to cart 7, MARVELS plate 3489B, KEPLER3.TRES2. GSFOGTF. 09:34Z - 50 min exposure. Seeing 3.5 to begin with, but quickly got better to 1.3" T08:32:18.130.fits[0] 3000.000000 47.686333 No broken fibers. ** 09:24Z - Calibrations. T09:24:08.390.fits[0] 15.000000 46679.265625 T09:26:33.270.fits[0] 160.000000 172.225006 T09:31:19.880.fits[0] 15.000000 46796.800781 10:32Z - Mounted cart 1, MARVELS pre-selection plate 3504. GSFOGTF. 10:36Z - Moved spectrographs +2000 steps. 10:37Z - 18-degree Morning twilight. 10:39Z - Precals. 10:46Z - Series of 2x12 second exposures. Seeing 1.2" Dmitry killed a process within the watcher servers, called iop.bin that was taking up 45% of the process. It was making the readout extremely slow. 10:53Z - Series of 3x20 second exposures. ** 11:03Z - Mounted cart 3, MARVELS plate 3277 for tomorrow. 11:16Z - Closed enclosure and stopped ventilating. 11:22Z - endNight rejoiced. ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Time Stripe Lambda Last Flavor Comments Start End Begin End Frame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== IMAGING RUN DETAILS ===--- ---=== SKIPPY RESULTS ===--- Run Frame nFrames stars muErr muRms nuErr nuRms rot az el --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== LTMATCH RESULTS ===--- Run Field nFields alt az nGood rowMean rowSig colMean colSig rot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== SPECTROSCOPY DATA SUMMARY ===--- Summary Checked (y/n): QA Procedures Done (y/n): UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 ----- sequence 61068, plate -9999 ------- 00:38 61068 0.0 bias ----- sequence 61069, plate 3504 ------- 10:41 61069 10.0 flat 10:44 61070 2.0 arc 10:49 61071 12.0 target 10:53 61072 13.0 target 10:56 61073 21.0 target 11:00 61074 20.0 target 11:03 61075 21.0 target ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:53Z 5 3417 210.39 0.0076 50.90 0.0043 62.64 0.0094 1.000080 03:51Z 3 3277 226.77 0.0070 55.69 0.0059 74.55 0.0303 1.000160 05:06Z 6 3416 285.34 0.0017 44.13 0.0037 123.82 -0.0089 1.000030 06:17Z 3 3277 268.44 0.0049 53.30 0.0043 109.97 0.0238 0.999930 07:29Z 9 3410 130.03 0.0041 43.24 0.0095 -92.27 0.0202 1.000310 08:32Z 7 3489 129.21 0.0096 73.69 0.0099 -61.31 0.0205 1.000220 09:40Z 7 3489 147.04 0.0091 69.17 0.0102 -44.53 0.0128 1.000340 10:41Z 1 3504 130.14 0.0093 76.00 0.0078 -58.52 0.0270 1.000240 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:53Z 5 3417 1.00008 -789 374 -150 210 50.9 16.6 13 218 - 1.4 03:51Z 3 3277 1.00016 -1579 -295 -150 227 55.7 17.0 13 241 - 1.1 05:06Z 6 3416 1.00003 -295 825 -130 285 44.1 16.8 7 221 - 1.3 06:17Z 3 3277 0.99993 690 1613 -130 268 53.3 16.6 8 261 - 1.1 07:29Z 9 3410 1.00031 -3060 -1460 -130 130 43.3 14.7 2 348 - 1.2 08:32Z 7 3489 1.00022 -2171 -803 -130 129 73.7 15.6 6 329 - 1.2 09:40Z 7 3489 1.00034 -3356 -1777 -130 147 69.2 11.9 8 83 - 4.0 10:41Z 1 3504 1.00024 -2369 -989 -150 130 76.0 14.7 8 274 - 1.3 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 00:44Z 70 25 17 228 (SW) 1259 - Photometric 01:14Z 66 22 12 249 (WSW) 1261 - " 01:44Z 64 21 11 250 (WSW) 1410 - " 02:14Z 61 18 9 238 (WSW) 1426 - " 02:47Z 61 18 10 189 (S) 1269 - " 03:17Z 62 19 15 227 (SW) 1306 - " 03:49Z 62 19 17 229 (SW) 1175 - " 04:21Z 61 18 11 234 (SW) 1083 - " 04:53Z 62 18 12 225 (SW) 1071 - " 05:23Z 61 18 8 231 (SW) 1050 - " 05:53Z 61 18 11 261 (W) 898 - " 06:23Z 59 15 8 257 (WSW) 1090 - " 06:53Z 61 17 4 275 (W) 923 - " 07:24Z 59 15 4 349 (NNW) 975 - " 07:54Z 59 15 3 315 (NW) 1092 - " 08:26Z 59 14 4 355 (NNW) 1051 - " 08:56Z 60 17 6 281 (W) 977 - " 09:28Z 59 15 5 255 (WSW) 1107 - " 09:58Z 59 15 1 238 (WSW) 1668 - " 10:29Z 59 16 8 263 (W) 1075 - " 11:01Z 58 15 3 255 (WSW) 1123 - " ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 01:02Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 01:52Z - Opened enclosure. 11:16Z - Enclosure is on, doors and louvers are closed, and fans are off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 11:16Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 3 Counterweights at: 255 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 130.80 lbs, 19.79 psi Imager lbs, psi (IMAGER IS WARM) ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_39_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: v6_6_0 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13_1 TCC: TCC 2.10.0 2009-01-12 sdssProcedures: v2_43 SoS: v5_1_8 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.0250 -0.0280 Axial B 0.0340 0.0470 Axial C -0.0290 -0.0360 Trans D -0.7570 -0.7600 Lateral E 10.5918 10.5791 Lateral F 12.1793 12.1793 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.: 20.3 Alt.: 29.999997 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.5860 18.5840 Axial B 15.6310 15.6220 Axial C 13.8090 13.8150 Trans D 15.1010 15.1080 GALILS Commanded: 1626572. 1528840. 1595592. -2950. -4550. Actual: 1626627. 1528808. 1595583. -2945. -4561. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -12.00 -28.00 -39.00 94.77 SecOrient: 1257.00 -12.00 -27.97 -39.17 94.70 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- MT camera serial micro was not responding. Watcher error message: server is not responding (Last packet: 2009-05-11 01:18:30Z) No response from the VME id4-id6 nodes. Watcher error message: no response (not responding: 2009-05-11 00:11:06Z) CCD temp voltages for CCD 2 and 3 were complaining because they were too cold. Watcher messages below: At 00:30Z CCDtemp 2 -95.71 CCDtemp 3 -95.1