APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Sunday December 3, 2006 (MJD 54073) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Olena Malanushenko ET Team: Jian Ge, Scott Fleming ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- ET Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Partly cloudy, temperature increasd from -5 in the evening to 0C by midnight. Humidity also dropped from 70 to zero! wind 7 mph. We have had observations of all ET cartridges. We have to order "gotoField -gflat" twice to center the guider flat and overlay. All stars are on the center of fibers after second command. Cart 1 (plate 8033) has had large offset (10,15) again. Watcher and sop server complained about several problems but it does not affect good ET observations. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- Telescope checked and all systems work fine. Mirror numbers are the same as at last night. Night: ------- 01:00Z cart 8, plt E8032. Find stars on go to field. One 50-min exposure. Used "gotoField -gflat" twice to center the stars - for each cartridge. 02:10Z cart 1, plt E8033. Used Fk5 star and last night offsets 10,10 to find the guider stars. One exposure 50 min. 03:10Z cart 4, plt E8030. Used fk5. There was clouds and we could not see the guider stars, waited 3:10-3:45Z. T=0C. Seeing 2.2. Exposure 3:45-4:25. T=0C. Confused to select the focus and made the focus loop. Foc=125. 04:45Z cart 1, plt E8033. Second exposure. Offset 10,15,0. Seeing 1.70. 5:35Z Cart 2, plt E8018. Used Fk5 star for pointing. One exposure. 6:40Z Cart 6, plate E8016. Find stars on go to field. One exposure. Seeing 1.6. Alt 44. Foc 100. T=0.7C. 7:47Z Cart 7 plt E8017, Used FK5. One exposure. Seeing 1.6, foc 100, alt 55. 9:10Z - the second exposure of the same cartridge. 10:25Z Cart 3, plt E8024, Used fk5 stars to find the guider stars. Two exposures. 12:15 Cart 5 plt 8025, using fk5 to find the guider stars. More clouds in this direction, sometimes cannot see the guider star but keep going to hope to get more data. EndNight in finished. Problems: I had to disable fiber #6 for each cartridge as program interpreted some bright pixels as a guider star which is not true. Server complained about sp1 and sp2 camera ftelnet failure; Watcher complained: server but fixed itself; Voltages; currents (High Az #2 Drive Current:: 2006-12-04 11:59:31Z) AxisStat:az (out_closed_loop amp_bad: 2006-12-04 13:12:02Z) AxisStat:rot (amp_bad stop_in: 2006-12-04 13:19:04Z) Text="pointing error probe does not exist:check inst data": (2006-12-04 12:13:56Z) Camera Serial Line: server is not responding (Last packet: 2006-12-04 01:18:16Z) and more other messages. All those complained does not affect good observations at this night. ---=== 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): no QA Procedures Done (y/n): no UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 ----- sequence 41653, plate -9999 ------- 00:15 41653 0.0 bias ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:58Z 1 8033 66.45 -0.0020 53.52 0.0030 232.43 -0.0142 0.999800 03:59Z 4 8030 -28.96 -0.0019 47.33 0.0021 155.79 -0.0208 0.999630 04:52Z 1 8033 -26.22 0.0041 69.03 0.0070 157.53 0.0438 0.999750 09:08Z 7 8017 16.13 0.0005 61.57 0.0029 193.54 -0.0125 1.000130 10:55Z 3 8024 58.26 0.0031 65.77 0.0022 228.79 0.0079 1.000120 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:58Z 1 8033 0.99980 1975 3005 200 66 53.5 -0.8 10 74 -- 1.80 03:59Z 4 8030 0.99963 3654 4344 130 -29 47.3 -0.2 7 126 -- 2.50 04:52Z 1 8033 0.99975 2469 3302 125 -26 69.0 0.1 6 90 -- 1.70 09:08Z 7 8017 1.00013 -1284 186 100 16 61.6 1.1 5 124 -- 1.50 10:54Z 3 8024 1.00012 -1185 259 100 58 65.7 1.6 9 128 -- 2.0 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 22:05Z 23 15 0 238 (WSW) 745 - 22:37Z 25 16 6 207 (SSW) 757 - 23:10Z 22 15 1 173 (S) 761 - 23:42Z 24 14 7 82 (E) 723 - 00:14Z 27 5 14 46 (NE) 469 - 00:47Z 30 -13 17 52 (NE) 298 - 01:17Z 30 -25 14 60 (ENE) 292 - 01:48Z 29 -28 11 62 (ENE) 236 - 02:18Z 29 -32 8 88 (E) 215 - 02:48Z 31 -33 15 69 (ENE) 193 - 03:22Z 31 -36 7 72 (ENE) 190 - 03:53Z 31 -35 4 93 (E) 156 - 04:25Z 32 -35 2 94 (E) 141 - 04:57Z 32 -35 7 68 (ENE) 157 - 05:27Z 33 -33 0 157 (SSE) 142 - 05:57Z 33 -33 0 159 (SSE) 122 - 06:27Z 34 -34 1 177 (S) 124 - 06:58Z 33 -35 6 120 (ESE) 129 - 07:29Z 32 -35 3 143 (SE) 126 - 08:02Z 32 -35 6 109 (ESE) 105 - 08:34Z 33 -34 7 124 (SE) 77 - 09:06Z 34 -33 7 130 (SE) 110 - 09:38Z 33 -35 6 105 (ESE) 97 - 10:09Z 34 -34 7 148 (SSE) 89 - 10:40Z 34 -33 5 99 (E) 87 - 11:11Z 35 -33 7 134 (SE) 92 - 11:42Z 34 -33 5 127 (SE) 85 - 12:12Z 34 -33 7 129 (SE) 125 - 12:43Z 33 -33 5 105 (ESE) 124 - 13:15Z 35 -31 4 109 (ESE) 121 - 13:47Z 33 -33 4 178 (S) 95 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 23:50Z Fans on, Louvers and doors open. 00:15Z Enclosure off. Counterwights are 245lb with ET cartridge. 13:15Z Enclosure on, fans off, louvers close. Telescope stowed at 121,30 with cartridge 5 mounted. Spectro dewar: 135 lb, 21 psi -- did not force to fill Imager dewar: 164 lb, 20 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_28_1 Watcher: v2_35_0 MCP: v6_3_2 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13 TCC: 0 sdssProcedures: v2_20 SoS: v5_1_4 hoggPT: v1_6_9 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- Mirror number are compartible with numbers from previous day. PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 24.6760 24.6750 Axial B 26.2670 26.2540 Axial C 27.9320 25.3490 Trans D 13.5820 13.5760 Lateral E 9.9695 9.9568 Lateral F 11.5570 11.5316 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.: -4.3 Alt.: 90.000002 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 1.5520 1.5550 Axial B 1.1280 1.1290 Axial C 1.1920 1.1910 Trans D -0.0510 -0.0530 GALILS Commanded: 1614005. 1594748. 1543057. -10550. -5800. Actual: 1614053. 1594719. 1543082. -10535. -5822. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 20.00 -10.00 -100.00 176.64 SecOrient: 1256.99 20.01 -9.98 -100.42 176.55 PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 24.6760 24.6750 Axial B 26.2670 26.2540 Axial C 27.9320 25.3490 Trans D 13.5820 13.5760 Lateral E 9.9695 9.9568 Lateral F 11.5570 11.5316 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.: -4.3 Alt.: 29.999997 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 1.5520 1.5550 Axial B 1.1280 1.1290 Axial C 1.1920 1.1910 Trans D -0.0510 -0.0530 GALILS Commanded: 1614036. 1594685. 1543013. -10550. -5800. Actual: 1614053. 1594719. 1543082. -10535. -5822. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 20.00 -10.00 -100.00 176.64 SecOrient: 1256.97 20.01 -10.01 -100.44 176.55 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- sp1> mechSend s Coll_motor_A -2232 Coll_motor_B -2835 Coll_motor_C -3541 sp2> mechSend s Coll_motor_A -7015 Coll_motor_B -8650 Coll_motor_C -7835 Server "spectro" complains about connection: "CAMERA sp1,sp2: Failure on ftelnet:connection error in ftelnetL connection refused. Instrument handler cannot talk to camera to get new problem" But the complain does not affect the progress of ET observations.