APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday September 30, 2010 (MJD 55470) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Alaina Shelden Kaike Pan Support: Jon Brinkman (VMS license) Craig Loomis (online) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- 19:47 05:13 BOSS until 06:00 (3.8 h), then MARVELS (5.6 h) ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Some clouds for three hours around midnight. Rest of night was clear with decent seeing. We observed 3 BOSS plates, and two of them are decalred DONE. cart 11, plate 4089, DONE. cart 10, plate 4202, DONE. cart 16, plate 4215, not done yet. Marvels plate: cart 7, 4102 B. Possble broken fibers: 1/2, 65/66. cart 6, 3712 A cart 6, 3712 B. possible broken fibers: 87/88 cart 1, 3710 B. Possible broken fiber: 67/68. Weak fiber or faint stars: 85/86. cart 8, 3896 B. Broken fibers? 3/4, 43/44, 49/50, 91/92 gcamera disconnected itself three times. After restarting gcamera, the guider refused (?did not) to take image although that ping showed it was alive. Had to restart it too. 25 min was lost to the problem. VMS license expired, Jon fixed it. But he said the current license is good only till the end of Oct. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: --------- Iop sessions could not talked to tcc with a message "license is temerated". Jon looked at it, and found that VMS license expired today (Oct 1). He contacted Fritz and worked on it. All actors and systems were checked out, no other problem to report. 23:50Z started ventilation. 00:30Z MARVELS lamps on. 00:50Z Enclourse off. Night: --------------- 01:25Z cart 11, plate 4089. SOGTF. 02:00Z started science exposure. Sky was mostly clear. Seeing at 1.5-1.9". The plate was DONE with 6 exposures. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55470 2.6 6.1 2.6 5.6 900.8 16.9 4089-55470-01 55470 2.9 6.9 3.0 6.3 900.8 19.1 4089-55470-01 55470 2.8 6.9 3.1 5.1 900.8 17.9 4089-55470-01 55470 3.3 7.2 3.2 4.0 900.8 17.7 4089-55470-01 55470 3.3 6.7 3.0 2.8 900.8 15.8 4089-55470-01 55470 3.4 6.6 3.2 2.3 900.8 15.5 4089-55470-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 18.3 40.4 18.1 26.1 5404.8 --> 102.9 03:42Z cart 10, plate 4202. SOGTF. 03:59Z started science exposures under clear sky and good seeing (1.2-1.5"). Two exposures were taken. Combined with existed signals, The plate is DONE. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55455 1.9 4.0 2.1 4.6 900.8 12.6 4204-55455-01 55455 1.5 2.9 1.6 3.3 900.8 9.3 4204-55455-01 55469 2.5 5.8 2.7 6.2 900.8 17.2 4204-55455-01 55469 2.7 5.8 3.0 6.4 900.8 17.9 4204-55455-01 55469 2.4 5.1 2.7 5.9 900.8 16.1 4204-55455-01 55470 2.8 6.3 3.0 6.8 900.8 18.9 4204-55455-01 55470 2.8 6.6 3.0 6.9 900.8 19.3 4204-55455-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 16.6 36.5 18.1 40.1 6305.6 --> 111.3 04:37Z CART 16, plate 4215. SOGTF. 04:50Z started science exposures. Clear sky with 1.3-1.7" seeing. During the second exposure, clouds came in and seeing degraded to very poor, at 2.0-3.0". We took 4 exposures on this plate. It is not done yet. 05:48Z MARVELS calibs: T05:48:32.440.fits TIO 46050.332 5124.7163 T05:50:38.860.fits THAR 291.18124 716.24158 T05:55:14.400.fits TIO 46144.777 5119.8130 06:00 cart 7, plate 4102B. SOGTF. 06:10Z started 50-min exposure. cloudy sky with poor seeing (2.0-2.5"). T06:09:50.390.fits STAR 20.416334 807.06982 Possible broken fibers: 1/2, 65/66. 07:01Z MARVELS calibs T07:01:36.720.fits TIO 46495.555 5175.4019 T07:03:42.000.fits THAR 294.92499 716.13953 T07:08:17.470.fits TIO 46495.445 5177.8340 07:06Z cart 6, plate 3712A. During setup, gcamera was disconnected. After restarting gcamera, guider refused to take image although that guider ping showed it is alive. Restarting both gcamera and guider three time before they work. 15 min was lost. 07:20Z SOGTF. 07:30Z started 50-min science. The sky was partly cloudy, seeing was 1.5-2.0". T07:30:52.710.fits STAR 30.259666 956.87714 No broken fiber found. 07:23Z MARVELS calibs T08:23:57.240.fits TIO 46580.668 5196.4453 T08:26:02.700.fits THAR 291.64999 714.72101 T08:30:38.180.fits TIO 46615.668 5190.4224 07:26Z cart 6, plate 3712B. sop gotoField failed again. Craig did some debug work on it. According to Craig, the failure is due to last guider failure messed up the sop. So he did "sop restart" that did the trick. Craig also suggested that if gcmaera crashs again, the recovery for the gcamera failure is a) to restart the gcamera ICC & wait for it to connect to the Alta b) guider restart. c) if sop does not command guider, do sop restart. Use last night's offset, find the field. 08:32Z started 50-min science. Clear sky with good seeing (1.3"). T08:32:41.540.fits STAR 45.342335 1270.7256 possible broken fiber 87/88. 09:25Z MARVELS Calibs T09:25:16.970.fits TIO 44402.223 4914.3159 T09:27:23.360.fits THAR 280.01251 700.25818 T09:31:58.810.fits TIO 44398.891 4910.6636 09:30Z cart 1, plate 3710 B. tried hard to found the stars. 09:43Z started science. Clear sky with okay seeing (1.3-1.9"). T09:43:43.600.fits STAR 30.624332 Broken fiber: 67/68. 85/86 is very weak. 10:35Z MARVELS calibs T10:35:28.080.fits TIO 45914.445 5080.2773 T10:37:33.400.fits THAR 285.45624 708.69971 T10:42:08.910.fits TIO 46044.332 5083.0303 10:38Z cart 8, 3896B. offset from last night were applied to get stars. 10:44Z started science with clear sky and decent seeing (1.2-1.5"). T10:44:19.810.fits STAR 33.625332 1055.3129 broken fibers: 3/4, 43/44, 49/50, 91/92 11:36Z MARVELS calibs T11:36:41.220.fits TIO 46465.668 5199.1055 T11:38:47.630.fits THAR 296.37500 715.84485 T11:43:23.080.fits TIO 46612.109 5185.4497 11:40Z mounted cart 17. 11:45Z enclosure on. 12:01Z endNight finished. ---=== 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 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 08:49Z 6 B 0 43.74 0.0000 74.51 0.0000 218.55 0.0000 1.000310 10:08Z 1 B 0 146.44 0.0000 49.83 0.0000 -68.11 0.0000 1.000400 10:57Z 8 B 0 65.04 0.0000 41.17 0.0000 229.97 0.0000 1.000370 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 23:16Z 64 46 6 272 (W) 1495 - clear 23:53Z 61 45 2 208 (SSW) 1630 - 00:29Z 58 45 1 334 (NNW) 1543 - 01:55Z 52 44 14 77 (ENE) 1550 - 02:29Z 52 43 12 77 (ENE) 1597 - 03:08Z 53 42 13 80 (E) 1509 - 03:44Z 54 41 10 83 (E) 1366 - 04:19Z 53 41 12 80 (E) 1336 - clear 04:55Z 53 40 11 87 (E) 1221 - clouds 05:29Z 52 38 14 85 (E) 1086 - 06:04Z 53 37 13 80 (E) 844 - cloudy 06:54Z 54 32 14 79 (E) 665 - partly cloudy 07:27Z 57 26 10 68 (ENE) 220 - mostly clear 08:00Z 57 33 0 238 (WSW) 584 - mosty clear 08:32Z 57 32 1 225 (SW) 768 - clear 09:08Z 56 22 1 154 (SSE) 476 - 09:39Z 57 25 1 199 (SSW) 441 - 10:10Z 56 21 5 177 (S) 115 - 10:42Z 56 23 4 199 (SSW) 153 - 11:13Z 55 24 2 189 (S) 181 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 23:50Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 00:55Z - Enclosure off. 11:45Z - Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 12:10 Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 17 Counterweights at: 298 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 164 lbs, 21 psi SP2 179 lbs, 24 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 getVersions, 2010-10-01 01:40:43 STUI software STUI: 1.0b3 2010-09-30 alerts: trunk+svn114742 apo: v1_5 boss: v2_3_9 boss.daq: 1.2.14 boss.specMech: 3.0.1 gcamera: v1_2_2 guider: v1_2_1 hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_1_4 mcp: v6_6_5 mcp.plc: 25 platedb: v1_0_5 sop: v1_1_4 sos: v1_1_4 tcc: 2.13.0 -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06 idlspec2d (sos3) --- v5_4_19 plate-mapper3 ------ NOCVS:v5_0_7 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -5.5180 -5.5100 Axial B 16.1000 16.0940 Axial C 15.9210 15.9220 Trans D 11.0070 11.0100 Lateral E 10.6553 10.6553 Lateral F 12.2428 12.2301 GALILS Commanded: 10600. -250. 5800. 10250. 13050. 12650. Actual: 10600. -250. 5800. 10250. 13053. 12647. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -13.67 10.53 574.80 742.37 PriOrient: 0.00 -13.67 10.53 574.80 742.37 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 13.4 Alt.: 29.999989 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -7.8360 -7.8320 Axial B -0.0400 -0.0410 Axial C 13.8140 13.8180 Trans D 14.1830 14.1840 GALILS Commanded: 1585545. 1565703. 1598987. -1450. -50. Actual: 1585350. 1566695. 1598880. -1462. -69. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -9.00 -4.00 -58.00 23.67 SecOrient: 1256.82 -9.25 -4.32 -58.29 23.47 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---