APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Monday March 22, 2010 (MJD 55278) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Viktor Malanushenko Kaike Pan Support: Steph Snedden ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- 23 Mar 2010 55279.0 0.56 02:39 11:39 07:42 16:43 BOSS 9.0 hours ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Tonight, we had clear sky for a few hours, partly cloudy sky for most of time. 1 hour was lost to clouds. Seeing was good for most of time, at ~1.2" reported by the guider, 0.8" by the DIMM. we Observed: cart 16, plate 3843 --DONE cart 14, plate 3848 --DONE cart 12, plate 3874. cart 10, plate 3697. cart 13, plate 3771. We accumulated about 26 K dust-hours, please check the mirror. Thanks. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- Afternoon checkout went smoothly. No problem to report. Mounted cartridge 10 and checked BOSS spectro collimation. Dust level at 2.7K during evening, we checked they are pollen. 01:25Z enclosure off. Night: ------ 01:55Z cart 10, plate 3697. Offsets are: -0.0042 in RA, 0.0016 in Dec. DIMM reports seeing at 0.8". Guider reports at 1.3". 2:17Z calibs 2:23Z science. 2:41Z science 2:59Z science 3:16Z science 3:32Z science Seeing at 1.5 to 2.0" 3:50Z science 4:06Z science 4:22 Calibs MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55278 1.4 4.1 1.6 5.3 900.8 12.4 3697-55278-01 55278 1.5 4.5 1.6 5.8 900.8 13.4 3697-55278-01 55278 1.2 3.9 1.3 4.6 900.8 11.0 3697-55278-01 55278 1.3 4.0 1.3 4.9 900.8 11.5 3697-55278-01 55278 1.0 3.4 0.9 4.2 900.8 9.5 3697-55278-01 55278 1.6 4.3 1.5 5.3 900.8 12.7 3697-55278-01 55278 1.4 3.9 1.3 4.5 900.8 11.1 3697-55278-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 9.4 28.1 9.5 34.6 6305.6 --> 81.6 04:25Z cart 13, plate 3771. SOGTF. Seeing at 1.4". Cloudy. 04:40Z calibs 05:03Z science. 05:20Z science. Partly cloudy. 05:38Z science. partly cloudy. 05:51Z science. Cloudy. The exposure is not useful. 06:10Z calibs. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55278 0.8 2.6 1.0 3.4 900.8 7.8 3771-55278-01 55278 0.8 3.0 1.0 3.4 900.8 8.2 3771-55278-01 55278 0.6 2.1 0.7 2.3 900.8 5.7 3771-55278-01 55278 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 900.8 0.3 3771-55278-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2 7.8 2.8 9.2 3603.2 --> 22.0 06:20Z cart 16, plate 3843. SOGTF. partly cloudy sky with 1.3" seeing. 06:27Z calibs 06:35Z science 06:51Z science 07:08Z science 07:24Z calibs. The plate was DONE with signals from mjd=55276, 55277 MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55276 2.4 4.0 1.8 3.6 900.8 11.8 3843-55270-02 55276 2.5 4.3 1.9 3.9 900.8 12.6 3843-55270-02 55276 2.5 4.3 1.9 3.8 900.8 12.5 3843-55270-02 55277 1.2 2.1 1.2 2.0 900.8 6.5 3843-55270-02 55277 1.3 1.7 1.2 2.2 900.8 6.4 3843-55270-02 55277 1.1 1.3 1.1 1.7 900.8 5.2 3843-55270-02 55277 1.3 1.6 1.4 2.0 900.8 6.3 3843-55270-02 55278 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.6 900.8 2.4 3843-55270-02 55278 1.6 3.7 1.5 2.6 900.8 9.4 3843-55270-02 55278 1.9 4.4 1.8 3.1 900.8 11.2 3843-55270-02 ------------------------------------------------------------ 16.3 28.2 14.3 25.5 9008.0 --> 84.3 07:35Z cart 14, plate 3848. Stars on the edges of big fibers. clear sky with 1.1" seeing (DIMM reports 0.7"). 07:44Z calibs. 07:52Z science. 08:10Z science. Clouds came in. Seeing 1.3". 08:27Z Science. Partly cloudy. 08:41Z science. Cloudy. 08:58Z calibs. The plate was DONE with signals from the previous two nights. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55276 1.9 4.0 2.1 5.2 900.8 13.2 3848-55274-01 55276 1.7 3.6 2.0 5.0 900.8 12.3 3848-55274-01 55277 1.1 1.8 1.4 2.7 900.8 7.0 3848-55274-01 55277 1.1 1.9 1.6 2.9 900.8 7.5 3848-55274-01 55277 1.2 2.3 1.7 3.1 900.8 8.3 3848-55274-01 55278 1.9 2.9 2.5 5.6 900.8 12.9 3848-55274-01 55278 1.7 2.4 2.3 5.3 900.8 11.7 3848-55274-01 55278 1.5 2.3 2.2 4.5 900.8 10.5 3848-55274-01 55278 1.0 1.5 1.4 3.0 900.8 6.9 3848-55274-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 13.1 22.7 17.2 37.3 8107.2 --> 90.3 09:07Z cart 12, plate 3874. Stars on the edges of big fibers. 09:21Z calibs. 09:35Z science. Partly cloudy sky with 1.3" seeing. Because the telescope was 4 degrees away from 90 degree, the guider had relatively big error bars (?). 09:18 Calibs 09:26Z science. 09:43Z science. 10:00Z science. 10:17Z science. 10:34Z science. 10:50Z science. 11:07Z science. 11:23Z science. The exposure did not record any signal due to clouds. 11:40Z calibs. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55278 2.7 5.4 2.2 3.3 900.8 13.6 3874-55278-01 55278 1.1 1.7 1.3 2.4 900.8 6.5 3874-55278-01 55278 1.6 2.9 2.0 3.8 900.8 10.3 3874-55278-01 55278 2.0 3.7 2.3 4.3 900.8 12.3 3874-55278-01 55278 0.8 1.3 0.9 1.6 900.8 4.6 3874-55278-01 55278 0.4 0.8 0.5 0.9 900.8 2.6 3874-55278-01 55278 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 900.8 0.4 3874-55278-01 55278 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 900.8 0.0 3874-55278-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 8.7 15.9 9.3 16.4 7206.4 --> 50.3 11:55Z enclousre on. 12:01Z 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 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:28Z cart 10 ObjArcOff=-0.004005,0.000000,4776028109.79000,0.001301,0.000000,4776028109.79000 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:34Z cart 10 0.99996 395 2120 659 152 69.0 5.3 16 224 -- 1.3 10:12Z cart 12 1.00022 -2221 -326 397 -66 83.5 5.1 18 271 -- 1.2 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 23:35Z 48 5 8 243 (WSW) 2554 - clear 00:08Z 47 4 9 221 (SW) 2801 - 00:42Z 45 2 7 205 (SSW) 2760 - 01:12Z 41 1 10 193 (SSW) 2595 - 01:42Z 42 0 9 216 (SW) 2634 - 02:16Z 41 0 17 212 (SSW) 2916 - 02:48Z 41 1 18 231 (SW) 2384 - 03:19Z 41 2 12 231 (SW) 2299 - 03:50Z 42 1 16 270 (W) 2598 - 04:23Z 42 0 19 257 (WSW) 2388 - 04:54Z 42 0 18 258 (WSW) 2470 - clear 05:24Z 42 0 18 266 (W) 2559 - cloudy 05:54Z 42 0 17 272 (W) 2476 - cloudy 06:24Z 42 0 14 265 (W) 2335 - partly cloudy 06:56Z 43 0 17 270 (W) 2450 - 07:28Z 42 0 15 268 (W) 2654 - 07:58Z 42 1 16 265 (W) 2499 - 08:28Z 42 0 15 266 (W) 2524 - 08:59Z 41 1 18 266 (W) 2513 - 09:29Z 41 4 21 268 (W) 2569 - 09:59Z 41 4 14 269 (W) 2480 - 10:31Z 41 4 19 281 (W) 2476 - 11:05Z 41 4 21 281 (W) 2502 - partly cloudy 11:39Z 41 4 12 266 (W) 2566 - cloudy ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 23:20Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 01:25Z - Enclosure off. 11:55Z - Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 12:20 Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 12 Counterweights at: 240 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 209 lbs, 23 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- -----getVersions-- 2010-03-22 23:33:22.683312 -----STUI software----- STUI ------- 0.5.2 2010-03-19 hub --------- Tag: sdss3_v1_1_3 boss -------- v2_1_6 specMech-- 3.0.1 guider -------v1_0_20d gcamera --- v1_0_6 MCP ------- v6_6_3 alerts ------- v1_0_3 sop ---------- V1_0_4 platedb ----unknown tcc ---------- ? -- Other versions ---- idlspec2d (sos3) --- v5_4_6 plate-mapper3 ------ NOCVS:v5_0_5 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.7000 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0240 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3730 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6030 11.6170 Lateral E 10.3759 10.3505 Lateral F 11.9507 11.9253 GALILS Commanded: 9900. 400. 5850. 1200. 2950. 2750. Actual: 9900. 400. 5850. 1200. 2950. 2750. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -3.30 5.10 278.08 178.06 PriOrient: 0.00 -3.04 5.26 277.70 178.07 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 8.6 Alt.: 29.997776 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6190 18.6150 Axial B 15.6270 15.6120 Axial C 13.8230 13.8170 Trans D -11.7710 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1597570. 1566345. 1588046. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597700. 1566200. 1588100. -7600. -12400. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.99 -3.96 -8.91 10.25 234.67 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---