APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday November 11, 2010 (MJD 55512) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Dan Oravetz Howard Brewington Steph Snedden (afternoon) Jon Brinkmann (support) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- MARVELS and BOSS Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- We lost the first 2.25 hours of science time because of a MARVELS computer problem; see log. Observed: Missing Spectro ----------- --------------- Cart 05, plate 3712-A, HD4203, MARVELS 49, 50 Through clouds Cart 05, plate 3712-B, HIP14810, MARVELS 49, 50 Aborted The rest of the night was lost to clouds, snow, and humidity ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- 22:30 - Took a bias, dark, arc and flat on cartridge 18. The sp1 xmids are still out of spec. 23:01Z - Started ventilation. Doors closed. A problem occurred while Garrett was trying to get cartridge 4 to show up in the platedb webapp. It did show up earlier when I did a platedb showActive, but after Garrett's problem (not sure exactly what happened there), cartridge 4 was gone from the list.The plPlugMap files existed. Eventually, Jon found and ran the makePluggingActive script, which was the missing link in the process. Steph will add a short procedure about this to the MARVELS section of sdssProcedures. 00:36Z - Took Hartmanns, a flat and an arc on cartridge 13. The wavemids were in the yellow, but no adjust was made, since we were dealing with the cartridge 4 problem. 00:05Z - Doors opened. Cartridge 4 mounted Night: ------ 00:11Z Sunset 00:15Z Enclosure off, topped-off spectro secondary dewars, checked top/bottom balance, did a test slew, and checked fiducial crossings for each axis. 00:45Z We had a MARVELS software problem and called Nathan. After lots of troubleshooting and help from Frank and Nathan, the MARVELS software would allow us to take an exposure. To restore operation, the MARVELS Window machine was rebooted. 01:00Z 12-degree twilight 03:16Z Cart 05, plate 3712-A, HD4203, MARVELS; GSOGTF. Low signal because of clouds T03:06:32.600 0 11. 44181. 4860. TIO NULL T03:08:38.990 0 160. 363. 774. THAR NULL T03:13:13.690 0 11. 44360. 4859. TIO NULL T03:22:25.100 5 3712A 3000. 13. 598. STAR HD4203 T04:14:09.140 0 11. 43746. 4832. TIO NULL T04:16:14.600 0 160. 341. 750. THAR NULL T04:20:49.000 0 11. 43745. 4832. TIO NULL 04:23Z Cart 05, plate 3712-B, HIP14810, MARVELS; GSOGTF This exposure was aborted as radar returns moved closer. 04:50Z Enclosure on as clouds increased. 08:29Z Snowing 10:44Z Humidity at 86% 11:35Z Humidituy at 99% 11:45Z 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 n time filename cart plt flav hrt exp colA colB colC Hrt - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 22:05 b1-00122204 18 4290 bia 0.0 22491 22211 22333 22:05 b2-00122204 18 4290 bia 0.0 29997 29686 30737 22:05 r1-00122204 18 4290 bia 0.0 22491 22211 22333 22:05 r2-00122204 18 4290 bia 0.0 29997 29686 30737 2 22:06 b1-00122205 18 4290 dar 20.0 22491 22211 22333 22:06 b2-00122205 18 4290 dar 20.0 29997 29686 30737 22:06 r1-00122205 18 4290 dar 20.0 22491 22211 22333 22:06 r2-00122205 18 4290 dar 20.0 29997 29686 30737 3 22:09 b1-00122206 18 4290 arc Lef 4.8 22491 22211 22333 HART 22:09 b2-00122206 18 4290 arc Lef 4.8 29997 29686 30737 HART 22:09 r1-00122206 18 4290 arc Lef 4.8 22491 22211 22333 HART 22:09 r2-00122206 18 4290 arc Lef 4.8 29997 29686 30737 HART 4 22:10 b1-00122207 18 4290 arc Rig 4.8 22491 22211 22333 HART 22:10 b2-00122207 18 4290 arc Rig 4.8 29997 29686 30737 HART 22:10 r1-00122207 18 4290 arc Rig 4.8 22491 22211 22333 HART 22:10 r2-00122207 18 4290 arc Rig 4.8 29997 29686 30737 HART 5 22:16 b1-00122208 18 4290 fla Out 30.9 26973 26694 26816 22:16 b2-00122208 18 4290 fla Out 30.9 37297 36987 38038 22:16 r1-00122208 18 4290 fla Out 30.9 26973 26694 26816 22:16 r2-00122208 18 4290 fla Out 30.9 37297 36987 38038 6 22:48 b1-00122209 18 4290 arc Out 4.8 26973 26694 26816 22:48 b2-00122209 18 4290 arc Out 4.8 37297 36987 38038 22:48 r1-00122209 18 4290 arc Out 4.8 26973 26694 26816 22:48 r2-00122209 18 4290 arc Out 4.8 37297 36987 38038 7 23:08 b1-00122210 13 4307 arc Lef 4.8 26973 26694 26816 HART 23:08 b2-00122210 13 4307 arc Lef 4.9 37297 36987 38038 HART 23:08 r1-00122210 13 4307 arc Lef 4.8 26973 26694 26816 HART 23:08 r2-00122210 13 4307 arc Lef 4.9 37297 36987 38038 HART 8 23:09 b1-00122211 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 26973 26694 26816 HART 23:09 b2-00122211 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 37297 36987 38038 HART 23:09 r1-00122211 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 26973 26694 26816 HART 23:09 r2-00122211 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 37297 36987 38038 HART 9 23:17 b1-00122212 13 4307 arc Lef 4.8 30474 30195 30318 HART 23:17 b2-00122212 13 4307 arc Lef 4.9 38791 38481 39532 HART 23:17 r1-00122212 13 4307 arc Lef 4.8 30474 30195 30318 HART 23:17 r2-00122212 13 4307 arc Lef 4.9 38791 38481 39532 HART 10 23:18 b1-00122213 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 30474 30195 30318 HART 23:18 b2-00122213 13 4307 arc Rig 4.9 38791 38481 39532 HART 23:18 r1-00122213 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 30474 30195 30318 HART 23:18 r2-00122213 13 4307 arc Rig 4.9 38791 38481 39532 HART 11 23:31 b1-00122214 13 4307 arc Lef 4.8 30474 30195 30318 HART 23:31 b2-00122214 13 4307 arc Lef 4.8 38791 38481 39532 HART 23:31 r1-00122214 13 4307 arc Lef 4.8 30474 30195 30318 HART 23:31 r2-00122214 13 4307 arc Lef 4.8 38791 38481 39532 HART 12 23:33 b1-00122215 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 30474 30195 30318 HART 23:33 b2-00122215 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 38791 38481 39532 HART 23:33 r1-00122215 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 30474 30195 30318 HART 23:33 r2-00122215 13 4307 arc Rig 4.8 38791 38481 39532 HART 13 23:51 b1-00122216 13 4307 fla Out 30.8 30474 30195 30318 23:51 b2-00122216 13 4307 fla Out 30.9 38791 38481 39532 23:51 r1-00122216 13 4307 fla Out 30.8 30474 30195 30318 23:51 r2-00122216 13 4307 fla Out 30.9 38791 38481 39532 14 00:06 b1-00122217 13 4307 arc Out 4.8 30474 30195 30318 00:06 b2-00122217 13 4307 arc Out 4.8 38791 38481 39532 00:06 r1-00122217 13 4307 arc Out 4.8 30474 30195 30318 00:06 r2-00122217 13 4307 arc Out 4.8 38791 38481 39532 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 04:33Z 5 0 1.00015 -1481 398 465 78 57.5 1.3 5 357 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 23:32Z 40 20 9 240 (WSW) 979 - 00:03Z 38 19 8 226 (SW) 1037 - 00:33Z 37 19 11 231 (SW) 991 - 01:27Z 36 18 6 325 (NW) 913 - 01:58Z 35 17 5 342 (NNW) 818 - 02:29Z 37 18 7 228 (SW) 989 - 03:02Z 35 17 6 325 (NW) 839 - 03:36Z 34 17 6 307 (NW) 877 - 04:10Z 35 18 6 300 (WNW) 917 - 04:43Z 33 17 6 7 (N) 939 - 05:17Z 32 17 9 5 (N) 905 - 05:50Z 32 15 11 359 (NNW) 888 - 07:01Z 27 13 10 14 (NNE) 774 - 07:36Z 27 15 10 28 (NNE) 696 - 08:08Z 28 17 7 342 (NNW) 775 - 10:21Z 27 21 8 262 (W) 764 - 10:53Z 25 22 11 263 (W) 767 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- Status at: 11:50Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 05 Counterweights at: 290 units LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Sp_01 228 lbs, 21 psi Sp_02 167 lbs, 24 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- ----STUI software STUI: 1.0b2 2010-07-21 alerts: trunk+svn114742 apo: v1_5 boss: v2_3_9 boss.daq: 1.2.14 boss.specMech: 3.0.1 gcamera: v1_2_3 guider: v1_2_3 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 IOP/SOP: v4_40_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: v6_6_5 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -5.5220 -5.5100 Axial B 16.0920 16.0940 Axial C 15.9140 15.9220 Trans D 11.0020 11.0100 Lateral E 10.6553 10.6553 Lateral F 12.2555 12.2301 GALILS Commanded: 10600. -250. 5800. 10250. 13050. 12650. Actual: 10600. -250. 5800. 10250. 13050. 12650. 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.: 4.8 Alt.: 30.002210 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -7.8340 -7.8320 Axial B -0.0400 -0.0410 Axial C 13.8180 13.8180 Trans D 14.1840 14.1840 GALILS Commanded: 1585369. 1566729. 1598931. -1450. -50. Actual: 1585350. 1566700. 1598900. -1450. -50. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -9.00 -4.00 -58.00 23.67 SecOrient: 1257.03 -9.01 -3.99 -58.08 23.32 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---