APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Friday December 15, 2006 (MJD 54085) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Howard Brewington (Days) O. Malanushenko V. Malanushenko ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- It was cloudy in the evning but good spectroscopy condition the whole night. It was not photometric, but we still obtained good signal on two plates (2/2629 and 6/2181) and finished 3 other plates (4/2581, 5/2578, 9/2672). Everything worked fine. endNight did not transfer cloud camerra images to right place, we will work with this tomorrow. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ------------ No problems to report with the afternoon checkout. However, we do have a new 10-amp power supply installed at the cloud camera. And, we have our new camera installed as well. I've made the necessary alignments and inspected the images for the noise artifacts. I do not see any problems; all the images are very clean. I would like to test our new camera and PS for the next few days before starting the calibrations. If all goes well, I hope to have our new camera calibrated by next week. The spectro focus was checked but not adjusted; the numbers are in the Problems Section. The XSIGMA are WSIGMA are good, and the spectro are set for a temp of about ~4-degrees C. Night: ---------- Clouds in the evening, but clear soon after the telescope is opened. 00:10Z Enclosure Open 00:30Z Cartridge 2 plate 2629 seguefaint Double gflat needed FK5 and previous offsets used to find the guider stars. 01:01Z preCalib Science: 01:12Z (exposure 1200), 01:35Z (1200->1500), 02:03Z (1500), 02:32Z (1100), 03:21(1100). Plate is passing beyond observational time. 03:42Z Postcal has been done. MJD 54083 20.1 11.2 30.8 12.4 current 35.8 18.9 46.2 27.4 Continue. s/n=18.9, f=41931 03:51Z Cartridge 9 plate 2672, priority 4, time for observation 4:08-9:12 Seguefaint (b1,b2,r1,and r2 >50) Double gflat needed. Used FK5 to find the guider stars. 04:16Z Pre-calibration Science: 04:24Z (exposure 1200), 04:46Z (1200), 05:08 (1200), 05:31 (1200) 05:54 Post-calibration, as requared Science: 06:00Z(1200), 06:30Z (1200), 06:53Z (1200), 07:16Z (1200) 07:38 (1200), 08:01 (1200), 08:24 (1200->1500) Total exposure is 13500 sec. Plate is DONE with s/n=51.8, file 41941 08:54Z Cartridge 5 plate 2575, priority 3, time for observation 7:22-11:10 Chunk (b1,b2,r1,and r2 >15) Double gflat needed. Found stars on Go To Field. 09:04Z Pre-calibration Science: 09:12Z (exposure 1200), 09:34Z (1200), 9:57 (900) Plate is DONE with s/n=16.1, file 41956 10:18Z Cartridge 4, plate 2581, priority 3, time for observation 8:07-12:56 Chunk (b1,b2,r1,and r2 >15) Double gflat needed. Found stars on Go To Field. 10:28Z Pre-calibration Science: 10:34Z (exposure 900), 10:51Z (840), 11:09 (780) Plate is DONE with s/n=14.4, file 41961 11:28Z Cartridge 6, plate 2481, priority 3 Chunk (b1,b2,r1,and r2 >15) Double gflat needed. Found stars on Go To Field. 11:37Z Pre-calibration Science: 11:43Z (exposure 780), 11:59Z (900), 12:21 (900) Plate did not get sufficient signal and we need to continue to observe it. f=41966, s/n=12.4 endNight is completed but cloud camera images have not been transfered to right place. We will work with this problem tomorrow. ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Time Stripe Lambda Last Flavor Comments Start End Begin End Frame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6628 22:01Z 22:25Z 100 O 123.91 129.79 50 ignore ---=== 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 41921, plate -9999 ------- 21:06 41921 0.0 bias ----- sequence 41922, plate 2629 ------- 22:18 41922 10.0 flat 22:20 41923 2.0 arc 22:27 41924 3.0 arc 22:29 41925 3.0 arc ----- sequence 41926, plate -9999 ------- 23:06 41926 0.0 bias ----- sequence 41927, plate -9999 ------- 23:32 41927 0.0 bias ----- sequence 41928, plate -9999 ------- 23:46 41928 0.0 bias ----- sequence 41929, plate 2629 ------- 01:03 41929 10.0 flat 01:05 41930 2.0 arc 01:34 41931 1200.0 target 02:02 41932 1501.0 target 02:31 41933 1502.0 target 02:59 41934 1500.0 target 03:20 41935 1100.0 target 03:41 41936 1100.0 target 03:44 41937 10.0 flat 03:46 41938 2.0 arc ----- sequence 41939, plate 2672 ------- 04:18 41939 10.0 flat 04:20 41940 2.0 arc 04:45 41941 1200.0 target 05:08 41942 1200.0 target 05:30 41943 1200.0 target 05:53 41944 1200.0 target 05:56 41945 10.0 flat 05:59 41946 2.0 arc 06:23 41947 1201.0 target 06:52 41948 1201.0 target 07:15 41949 1200.0 target 07:38 41950 1200.0 target 08:00 41951 1201.0 target 08:23 41952 1200.0 target 08:51 41953 1501.0 target ----- sequence 41954, plate 2575 ------- 09:07 41954 10.0 flat 09:09 41955 2.0 arc 09:34 41956 1200.0 target 09:56 41957 1200.0 target 10:14 41958 901.0 target ----- sequence 41959, plate 2581 ------- 10:30 41959 10.0 flat 10:32 41960 2.0 arc 10:51 41961 901.0 target 11:08 41962 842.0 target 11:24 41963 782.0 target ----- sequence 41964, plate 2481 ------- 11:40 41964 10.0 flat 11:42 41965 2.0 arc 11:58 41966 780.0 target 12:21 41967 1203.0 target 12:39 41968 901.0 target ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:11Z 2 2629 -38.90 -0.0068 76.74 0.0037 145.18 0.0072 1.000150 05:05Z 9 2672 59.66 0.0006 62.66 0.0055 229.21 -0.0070 1.000220 09:30Z 5 2575 32.92 -0.0011 65.40 0.0049 207.76 -0.0063 1.000120 10:38Z 4 2581 21.40 -0.0026 71.97 0.0049 198.57 0.0157 1.000120 11:49Z 6 2481 31.54 0.0010 79.03 0.0052 208.57 0.0364 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 00:17Z 2 0 1.00000 0 1257 0 121 30.0 5.1 13 326 01:11Z 2 2629 1.00015 -1481 -5 100 -39 76.7 5.0 17 326 -- 1.4 05:04Z 9 2672 1.00022 -2173 -577 75 60 62.6 5.0 13 337 -- 1.8 09:31Z 5 2575 1.00012 -1185 184 25 33 65.4 4.7 8 269 -- 1.5 10:38Z 4 2581 1.00012 -1185 172 25 21 72.0 4.6 6 264 -- 1.5 11:50Z 6 2481 1.00012 -1185 189 50 31 79.1 3.7 7 204 -- 1.7 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 20:24Z 47 12 13 300 (WNW) 149 - 20:56Z 43 17 8 327 (NNW) 282 - 21:27Z 41 15 6 307 (NW) 268 - 21:59Z 39 16 13 335 (NNW) 177 - 22:30Z 40 13 12 320 (NW) 135 - 23:01Z 40 14 14 321 (NW) 152 - 23:33Z 40 15 15 337 (NNW) 148 - 00:05Z 40 15 14 350 (NNW) 143 - 00:37Z 40 15 13 343 (NNW) 166 - 01:10Z 40 14 12 325 (NW) 158 - 01:41Z 41 11 14 316 (NW) 195 - 02:13Z 40 14 18 326 (NW) 153 - 02:44Z 40 16 11 308 (NW) 265 - 03:15Z 40 16 19 319 (NW) 279 - 03:46Z 40 15 20 330 (NNW) 270 - 04:16Z 40 14 8 1 (N) 292 - 04:47Z 42 14 15 346 (NNW) 259 - 05:17Z 40 14 18 320 (NW) 210 - 05:47Z 41 13 9 325 (NW) 232 - 06:19Z 40 13 14 323 (NW) 292 - 06:50Z 41 11 3 328 (NNW) 241 - 07:20Z 42 7 9 295 (WNW) 189 - 07:51Z 40 11 9 288 (WNW) 229 - 08:21Z 41 11 6 303 (WNW) 257 - 08:51Z 43 12 14 298 (WNW) 223 - 09:22Z 41 11 9 272 (W) 237 - 09:52Z 40 11 7 269 (W) 210 - 10:22Z 40 11 10 277 (W) 173 - 10:53Z 39 11 8 273 (W) 199 - 11:24Z 39 11 10 212 (SSW) 239 - 11:54Z 38 13 5 207 (SSW) 271 - 12:24Z 40 8 6 196 (SSW) 187 - 12:54Z 39 11 7 245 (WSW) 276 - 13:24Z 42 8 13 273 (W) 198 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 23:00Z Opened doors and louvers, fans on. 00:15Z Enclosure opened 13:00Z Enclosure closed, louvers closed, fans off. Stowed at 30 deg alt, Cartridge 2 installed. Spectro auto-fill connected. 13:00Z Spectro dewar wt 248 lb Imager dewar wt 167 lb ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_29_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_20 SoS: v5_1_4 hoggPT: v1_6_9 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 24.6780 24.6730 Axial B 26.2740 26.2680 Axial C 27.9380 27.9320 Trans D 13.5830 13.5820 Lateral E 9.9695 9.9695 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.: 6.4 Alt.: 30.325120 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 1.5530 1.5540 Axial B 1.1380 1.1390 Axial C 1.1900 1.1920 Trans D -0.0530 -0.0510 GALILS Commanded: 1614055. 1596965. 1543101. -10550. -5800. Actual: 1614050. 1594700. 1543100. -10550. -5800. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 20.00 -10.00 -100.00 176.64 SecOrient: 1257.60 20.52 -9.41 -100.04 176.22 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- --== Spectro Focus Numbers ==-- IDL 5.5a> collimate, 41924 Reading /data/spectro/54085/sdR-b1-00041924.fit speclog_version: Command not found. Reading /data/spectro/54085/sdR-b1-00041925.fit speclog_version: Command not found. COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.64 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 1.41 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.54 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.42 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -14.9 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-54085-b1-00041924.log PostScript file = Collimate-54085-b1-00041924.ps Reading /data/spectro/54085/sdR-b2-00041924.fit speclog_version: Command not found. Reading /data/spectro/54085/sdR-b2-00041925.fit speclog_version: Command not found. COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.00 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 0.43 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.11 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.27 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -9.6 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-54085-b2-00041924.log PostScript file = Collimate-54085-b2-00041924.ps Reading /data/spectro/54085/sdR-r1-00041924.fit speclog_version: Command not found. Reading /data/spectro/54085/sdR-r1-00041925.fit speclog_version: Command not found. COLLIMATE: Min offset = -1.04 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 0.11 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.32 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.52 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 4742 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Issue SOP command: "sp1; mechPiston 4742" Log file = Collimate-54085-r1-00041924.log PostScript file = Collimate-54085-r1-00041924.ps Reading /data/spectro/54085/sdR-r2-00041924.fit speclog_version: Command not found. Reading /data/spectro/54085/sdR-r2-00041925.fit speclog_version: Command not found. COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.99 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = -0.10 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.24 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.46 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 4237 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Issue SOP command: "sp2; mechPiston 4237" Log file = Collimate-54085-r2-00041924.log PostScript file = Collimate-54085-r2-00041924.ps % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating illegal operand IDL 5.5a>