APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Tuesday April 3, 2007 (MJD 54194) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Kaike Pan Audrey Simmons Justin Crepp (UF) Suvrath Mahadevan (UF) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- ET Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Partly cloudy conditions at beginning of night, but it cleared up soon afterwards. Excellent seeing throughout the night. Took great exposures of: Cart 6, plate 8016 Cart 9, plate 8017 Cart 2, plate 8018 Cart 3, plate 8024 Cart 5, plate 8025 Cart 1, plate 8026 (2 exposures) Cart 7, plate 8022 (2 exposures) A few suspicious watcher errors kept reaccuring. See problem section. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Night: ------ Checkout went smoothly. Had a critical disk space error at beginning of checkout, but problem was immediately fixed. 00:28Z Started ventilation with door and louvers open, fans are on. 01:35Z Opened enclosure. 02:17Z Cartridge 6, plate 8016 mounted. No guide stars or fk5 star found on goToField first time around. Second time with fk5 star worked. One 50 min exposure taken with some clouds, but good seeing of 1.0". 03:31Z Cart 9, plate 8017 mounted. There was a computer error that caused us to restart GUI altogether. We lost about a half an hour of sky time. fk5 star used. 50 min exposure taken. Clear skies, good seeing of 1.0". 04:33Z Cart 2, plate 8018. GSFOGTF. 50 min exposure taken. 05:34Z Cart 3, plate 8024. fk5 star used. 50 min exposure taken. 06:46Z Cart 5, plate 8025. fk5 star used. 50 min exposure taken. 07:51Z Cart 1, plate 8026. fk5 star used. 50 min exposure taken. 08:52Z Cart 7, plate 8022. Offsets were used on goToField command. Two 50 min exposures taken. 09:48Z Cart 1, plate 8026. fk5 star used. Another 50 min exposure taken. 12:00Z Enclosure on. 12:03Z 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 43991, plate -9999 ------- 00:21 43991 0.0 bias ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:24Z 6 0 -35.33 -0.0012 51.49 0.0026 150.89 -0.0125 1.000240 03:41Z 9 8017 -51.55 -0.0012 51.00 0.0026 138.59 -0.0125 1.000230 04:36Z 2 8018 243.28 -0.0005 47.91 0.0010 96.28 -0.0155 1.000360 05:40Z 3 8024 -53.89 0.0021 67.64 0.0024 134.33 0.0000 1.000220 06:52Z 5 8025 -24.99 -0.0029 57.62 -0.0001 159.10 0.0000 1.000140 07:52Z 1 8026 181.72 -0.0021 69.10 0.0000 2.38 -0.0265 1.000140 08:56Z 7 8022 111.95 0.0024 67.27 0.0042 -84.18 -0.0066 1.000190 09:55Z 7 8022 122.61 0.0024 78.47 0.0042 -64.71 -0.0066 1.000190 10:57Z 1 8026 223.45 0.0015 50.75 0.0014 77.23 0.0173 1.000180 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:24Z 6 8016 1.00023 -2271 -674 30 -35 51.5 9.9 6 239 - 1.0 03:41Z 9 8017 1.00023 -2271 -772 -70 -52 51.0 10.6 9 195 - 1.0 04:36Z 2 8018 1.00036 -3555 -1805 -50 243 47.9 10.2 10 231 - 1.2 05:40Z 3 8024 1.00022 -2173 -713 -50 -54 67.6 10.2 10 258 - 1.0 06:52Z 5 8025 1.00014 -1383 -36 -50 -25 57.6 10.0 8 268 - 1.1 07:52Z 1 8026 1.00014 -1383 -61 -50 182 69.1 9.8 8 234 - 1.1 08:56Z 7 8022 1.00019 -1876 -502 -85 112 67.3 9.9 8 213 - 1.1 09:55Z 7 8022 1.00019 -1876 -403 30 123 78.5 7.0 4 184 - 1.4 10:57Z 1 8026 1.00018 -1778 -303 -10 223 50.7 8.3 8 196 - 1.3 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 23:40Z 58 5 10 221 (SW) 377 - Partly cloudy 00:12Z 54 7 12 248 (WSW) 439 - " 00:42Z 54 7 4 217 (SW) 412 - " 01:12Z 53 7 3 261 (W) 458 - " 01:43Z 51 7 4 263 (W) 434 - " 02:13Z 48 8 6 244 (WSW) 531 - " 02:45Z 50 7 6 211 (SSW) 451 - Clear 03:15Z 51 8 8 199 (SSW) 588 - " 03:45Z 51 8 8 191 (S) 540 - " 04:18Z 49 10 8 201 (SSW) 655 - " 04:48Z 50 8 9 218 (SW) 614 - " 05:18Z 50 8 10 236 (SW) 582 - " 05:50Z 50 6 7 264 (W) 616 - " 06:22Z 49 6 8 267 (W) 619 - " 06:52Z 50 3 8 265 (W) 610 - " 07:23Z 50 3 6 258 (WSW) 520 - " 07:53Z 49 3 6 256 (WSW) 538 - " 08:24Z 49 4 7 221 (SW) 529 - " 08:56Z 49 4 7 212 (SSW) 559 - " 09:27Z 48 8 5 236 (SW) 662 - " 09:57Z 43 17 6 235 (SW) 815 - " 10:28Z 44 11 9 226 (SW) 618 - " 10:58Z 47 10 6 212 (SSW) 714 - " 11:29Z 44 13 6 181 (S) 801 - " 12:00Z 45 15 12 184 (S) 926 - " ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 01:35Z - Enclosure off. 12:02Z - Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 12:02Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 1 Counterweights at: 250 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 301.70 lbs, 26.10 psi Imager 140.10 lbs, 20.29 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_31_0 Watcher: v2_35_0 MCP: v6_3_2 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13 TCC: TCC 2.7.2.1 August 6 2004 sdssProcedures: v2_25 SoS: v5_1_8 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 0.0080 -0.0050 Axial B 0.0040 0.0090 Axial C 0.0080 0.0160 Trans D 0.0070 0.0040 Lateral E 9.9695 9.9568 Lateral F 11.5443 11.5443 GALILS Commanded: 4600. -2000. 2650. -9300. -9800. -9800. Actual: 4600. -2000. 2650. -9300. -9800. -9800. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 PriOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 11.1 Alt.: 30.230223 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.0300 -0.0240 Axial B -0.0310 -0.0280 Axial C -0.0450 -0.0370 Trans D -0.0080 -0.0040 GALILS Commanded: 1614055. 1594666. 1543076. -10550. -5800. Actual: 1614053. 1594719. 1543082. -10535. -5822. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 20.00 -10.00 -100.00 176.64 SecOrient: 1256.98 19.99 -10.02 -100.44 176.56 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- 03:30Z There was an error with the gflat goToField command with cart 9. When we closed the popup message, all of the telescope windows closed with it. We had to restart GUI altogether. 06:46Z Reaccuring watcher error under TCC tcc - pointing error probe does not exist: check inst data 08:59Z Reaccuring watcher error under MCP Axes - rotator (addoffset: Max accl for rotator exceed: -282/1000) 09:00Z Reaccuring watcher error under MCP TPM - currents (High Rot Drive Current)