APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Monday November 1, 2010 (MJD 55502) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Dan Oravetz Audrey Simmons Steph Snedden (afternoon) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- We had crystal clear skies the entire night, but very poor seeing ranging from 6.0"+ to 2.2". We closed for almost three hours because of high humidity. During that time, we got started with Marvels calibrations but we did not finish them. We completed the first 3 calibrations. The rest still needs to be done. We observed: Cart 10, plate 4322 Cart 16, plate 4304 Cart 14, plate 4269 (DONE) Cart 15, plate 3755 Cart 13, plate 3806 We again ran into problems with the cartridge bay lift and had to run it manually the entire night. French checked it out. He said it had to do an interlock problem. We had to replace a FF bulb, which cost us about a half an hour. The disabled bulb is on Dan Long's desk. We were unable to screw in one of the knobs that hold the black cover onto the wind baffle. It is on the upper-left corner, or the top one that is closest to the laptop. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: --------- Checkout at telescope was without problems. Thanks for the moth cleanup. The drive surfaces looked good. 21:52Z - all actors checked and found alive (except for ecamera, as expected) 22:20Z - Gcamera dark taken. BOSS Hartmanns, bias, dark, flat and arc taken on cartridge 14. Collimation adjusted (only actuator pistons were needed). 22:50Z - ventilation started 23:05Z - Cartridge 10 mounted Night: ----- 00:32Z - Opened enclosure to clear skies. 00:49Z - gotoField cart 10, BOSS plate 4322. 00:49Z - Hartmanns 121416-17. 00:56Z - Hartmanns 121418-19. 00:59Z - Cals 121420-21. Seeing 6.0" We waited until the seeing got better before proceeding. 03:31Z - Attempted an exposure for fun, but doubt it will be useful. Seeing 4.5" 03:53Z - 15 min exposure. 04:10Z - 15 min exposure. Seeing 3.0" 04:44Z - Cals 121425-26. Many values were red. Our guess is that since the temperature changed so much since sunset, it would account for the collimators being out of focus. The temperature changed about 6 degrees C. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55502 0.3 0.7 0.7 0.4 900.8 2.1 4322-55502-01 55502 0.5 1.0 0.9 0.5 900.8 2.9 4322-55502-01 55502 0.7 1.3 1.0 0.6 900.8 3.6 4322-55502-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 1.5 3.0 2.6 1.5 2702.4 --> 8.6 04:43Z - Mounted cart 16, BOSS plate 4304. 04:44Z - Hartmanns 121427-28. 04:47Z - Cals 121429-30. 04:53Z - 15 min exposure. Seeing 2.7" 05:06Z - 15 min exposure. Seeing 3.5" 05:35Z - Humidity is high. We decided that the humidity combined with the bad seeing did not justify us staying open, so we closed and stopped ventilating. 07:10Z - Marvels cals. We did not finish all of them. 08:10Z - Humidity dropped, wind picked up a little, but it is still under the limit. We started ventilating and opened the enclosure. Mounted cart 14. 08:10Z - gotoField cart 14, BOSS plate 4269. 08:12Z - Hartmanns 121433-34. 08:14Z - Cals 121435-36. 08:21Z - 15 min exposure. Seeing 2.5" 08:37Z - 15 min exposure. Even though the seeing was bad, we were able to gather enough signal to finish this plate by using previous signal. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55487 3.1 6.1 2.9 6.2 900.8 18.3 4269-55485-02 55487 1.9 2.7 1.7 2.8 900.8 9.1 4269-55485-02 55487 2.9 4.3 3.0 4.9 900.8 15.1 4269-55485-02 55501 2.1 3.6 2.0 3.7 900.8 11.4 4269-55485-02 55502 1.2 2.6 1.1 2.8 900.8 7.7 4269-55485-02 55502 1.4 2.9 1.2 3.2 900.8 8.7 4269-55485-02 ------------------------------------------------------------ 12.6 22.2 11.9 23.6 5404.8 --> 70.3 08:59Z - Mounted cart 15, BOSS plate 3755. 09:00Z - Hartmanns 121439-40. 09:02Z - Ran into an error when preparing to take cals: 09:01:43 APO.doravetz 154 sop w text="Failed to turn FF lamps on" 09:01:43 APO.doravetz 154 sop f text="Failed to prepare for flats" The upper-left FF bulb went out and needed to be replaced. 09:25Z - Hartmanns 121442-43. 09:27Z - Cals 121444-45. 09:37Z - 15 min exposure. Seeing 2.2" 09:54Z - 15 min exposure. 10:10Z - 15 min exposure. 10:27Z - 15 min exposure. 10:43Z - 15 min exposure. 10:59Z - 15 min exposure. 11:16Z - 15 min exposure. This plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55502 0.9 2.8 0.6 2.3 900.9 6.6 3755-55502-01 55502 1.2 3.5 0.9 3.1 900.9 8.7 3755-55502-01 55502 1.6 4.5 1.0 3.7 900.9 10.8 3755-55502-01 55502 1.3 3.9 0.8 3.2 900.8 9.2 3755-55502-01 55502 1.5 4.5 1.0 3.5 900.8 10.5 3755-55502-01 55502 1.3 3.9 0.9 3.0 900.8 9.1 3755-55502-01 55502 1.2 3.4 0.8 2.8 900.8 8.2 3755-55502-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 9.0 26.5 6.0 21.6 6305.9 --> 63.1 11:37Z - Mounted cart 13, BOSS plate 3806. 11:38Z - Hartmanns 121453-54. 11:40Z - Cals 121455-56. 11:49Z - 15 min exposure. Seeing 2.3" MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55502 1.2 3.8 1.1 3.0 900.8 9.1 3806-55502-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 1.2 3.8 1.1 3.0 900.8 --> 9.1 12:15Z - Closed enclosure and stopped ventilating. 12:24Z - 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:28Z cart 10 33.75 0.0031 54.83 0.0000 207.83 0.0000 1.000200 CurrArcOff = 0.000004, 0.000000, 4795378156.43000, -0.000266, 0.000000, 4795378156.43000 04:57Z cart 16 0.88 0.0031 59.40 0.0000 180.73 0.0000 1.000050 CurrArcOff = -0.000372, 0.000000, 4795390679.62000, -0.001047, 0.000000, 4795390679.62000 08:25Z cart 14 -48.75 0.0031 48.74 0.0000 140.76 0.0000 1.000098 11:21Z cart 15 85.18 0.0031 77.31 0.0000 257.40 0.0000 1.000276 11:57Z cart 13 139.88 0.0031 78.80 0.0000 -45.82 0.0000 1.000196 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:28Z cart 10 1.00020 -1975 -169 300 34 54.8 3.2 24 51 - 6.0 04:57Z cart 16 1.00005 -494 1267 522 1 59.4 0.4 5 105 - 2.7 08:25Z cart 14 1.00010 -968 861 476 -49 48.7 1.4 29 54 - 2.5 11:21Z cart 15 1.00028 -2724 -686 449 85 77.3 2.2 24 54 - 2.2 11:57Z cart 13 1.00020 -1934 -48 435 140 78.8 2.0 24 51 - 2.3 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 22:40Z 47 19 4 351 (NNW) 272 - 23:35Z 46 15 9 10 (N) 336 - 00:17Z 42 27 14 59 (ENE) 993 - 00:50Z 40 27 15 80 (E) 1107 - 01:28Z 37 27 24 51 (NE) 1433 - 02:11Z 36 28 24 69 (ENE) 1407 - 02:45Z 35 28 31 67 (ENE) 1331 - 04:57Z 32 27 5 104 (ESE) 1262 - 08:25Z 34 20 28 54 (NE) 170 - 11:21Z 36 20 23 54 (NE) 171 - 11:58Z 35 18 23 51 (NE) 135 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 22:50Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 00:33Z - Opened enclosure. 05:35Z - Closed enclosure and stopped ventilating. Humidity high. 08:10Z - Opened enclosure and started ventilating. 12:24Z - Enclosure is on, doors and louvers are closed, and fans are off. Status at: 12:24Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 13 Counterweights at: 290 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. SP1 LN2 dewar scale: 94.10 lbs, 20.56 psi SP2 LN2 dewar scale: 111.60 lbs, 22.79 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_40_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: v6_6_5 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13_1 ----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: trunk+svn118529 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 -5.5190 -5.5100 Axial B 16.0970 16.0940 Axial C 15.9190 15.9220 Trans D 11.0020 11.0100 Lateral E 10.6426 10.6553 Lateral F 12.2555 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.: 8.5 Alt.: 30.089962 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -7.8360 -7.8320 Axial B -0.0460 -0.0410 Axial C 13.8150 13.8180 Trans D 14.1830 14.1840 GALILS Commanded: 1585350. 1566654. 1598950. -1450. -50. Actual: 1585350. 1566695. 1598880. -1462. -69. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -9.00 -4.00 -58.00 23.67 SecOrient: 1257.01 -9.03 -4.01 -58.09 23.34 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---