APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday August 23, 2001 (MJD 52145) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Danny Long Scot Kleinman Mike Harvanek (swing) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Clouds off and on all night, but we got 5 plates done. SOP hung once with no discernible diagnostics and acted weirdly afterwards (towards the end of the night, thankfully). We declared the test version of IOP current. We like the new manipulator light. It worked quite well. Thanks. Landru again survived the night without incident. endNight misbehaved. (We also got a good imager bias, so are shipping imager tapes tonight.) ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Attention JEG: Before starting tonight, we copied two frames from last night's good seeing run to /data/photo/optics/52144. We don't know if these are the absolute best seeing frames, but they should be quite good. We also ran skippy with -window options of 180 and 240" on last night's ill-fated run and got identical results to last night - that is the increased search radius does not work to tell you if you really are quite far off in your pointing. Dan homed the secondary during the afternoon and found a single step error. Mike and French moved the telescope in altitude and found no problems. During checkout, Dan found the DA in the same state as last night - this time, though waiting for a command response from id6, not id5. Mike had, however, already done a successful test bias -so again this happened either during or in between drifts. The specific errors were: Waiting for command response from id6 (crate 2, ICC 2), data server (client 1) Waiting for command response from id6 (crate 2, ICC 2), data server (client 1) ptvmeReset didn't fix the problem. First reboot of crates did. For the second night in a row, I am testing Landru with the new Xserver while NOT driving (for safety). Observers- you don't have to do anything to use the new setup. You will, however, note, that you have 4 window managers running (one in each screen) and cannot move windows from one screen to another. The mouse, however, does move from one screen to the other in the manner you would expect. Clouds at sunset (and moon) so first up: cart 7 plate 625. Tonight, the 72 point model worked (for this plate at least) with no offset. Dan's Mac got Landru-envy and decided to bail ot of X while he was centering the guide stars. He had to start over and do a new spectro bias, loadCart, and guiderFlat before he could get things going again. Sigh. Next up - cart 1 plate 635. Stars appeared on the first gotoField. This plate finished, we went on to cart 4 plate 377. Finding guide stars was hampered by clouds. They also put a damper on getting science exposures. The clouds eventually gathered somewhere where we were not pointing and we continued to get excellent S/N values. Incidentally, we declared the test version of IOP, v3_53_7 current tonight, since it has now been shown to take good imaging and spectroscopic data. Next up, cart 5 plate 653. gotoField immediately found guide stars. At 02:10, the telescope halted- the watcher told us 1) that the axes were halted by a problem (how I love that error message) and 2) Modu="prt Read" (Aug 24 02:09:54 MDT) Modu="axe i SchMove" (Aug 24 02:10:04 MDT) Modu="axe o Move" (Aug 24 02:10:04 MDT) Modu="exe Track" (Aug 24 02:10:04 MDT) Modu="prt ReadMatch" (Aug 24 02:10:04 MDT) almost as informative. The TCC reported: 0 0 I RotType="Obj" 0 0 I RotPos = -0.000475, 0.000000, 4505357364.85000 0 7 I SpiderInstAng = 19.787410, -0.004508, 4505357421.82235 0 7 : Cmd='show object' 0 0 F Modu="prt_ReadMatch"; Text="bad reply"; Expected="AZ MOVE 23.2759011 -0.0054147 29426.82235"; Received="199.69639 8 -1.845568 29415.647674 0 0.000000" 0 0 F Modu="prt_ReadMatch"; Text="bad reply"; Expected="ALT MOVE 44.3344544 0.0013911 29426.82235"; Received="AZ MOVE 2 3.2759011 -0.0054147 29426.82235" 0 0 F Modu="prt_ReadMatch"; Text="bad reply"; Expected="ROT MOVE 199.6451872 -0.0045090 29426.82235"; Received=" " 0 0 F Modu="axe_o_Move"; Text="command failed for AZ , ALT, ROT" 0 0 F Modu="prt_ReadMatch"; Text="bad reply"; Expected="AZ MOVE"; Received="ALT MOVE 44.3344544 0.0013911 29426.82235" 0 0 F Modu="prt_ReadMatch"; Text="bad reply"; Expected="ALT MOVE"; Received=" " 0 0 F Modu="prt_ReadMatch"; Text="bad reply"; Expected="ROT MOVE"; Received="ROT MOVE 199.6451872 -0.0045090 29426.82235 " We decided this exposure may be contaminated so decided not to count it in the final S/N tally. Next up - cart 3 plate 663. We got guide stars on gotoField after clearing the offsets from the previous plate. We later realized that this plate has some previous exposures on it - it will hve a REALLY GOOD S/N after tonight's addtional observations - especially since there are no later plates for us to do so we sat on it much longer than needed - to fill the time now, ccount for that in your metrics. Incidentally, we are running low of beginning and end of night plates! Around 04:17, we noticed Dan's SOP had frozen and no guide updates were happening.It looks like things have been frozen for the past 8 minutes. The "unexpected" logTool murmur section showed nothing revealing (no entries at all since 04:00.) Further murmur-sleuthing revealed nothing further. Dan logged out the ports, opened a new SOP session, & took a bias -init which worked so presumably the previous SOP session died before it started the last exposure was started although the SOPGUI countdown timer had already counted down 97s. Once back in bidness, we took a smear exposure and an additional science exposure. The smear ran OK, but the science xposure finished without reading out. A hand-entered readoutBegin read out a line or so, but no more than that. So much for the extra S/N on this plate. endNight failed in a weird way- continually asking what the flavor of an image was without telling us what image or letting us respond to the question. We ctrl-c'd out of it and tried it again with new Gang tapes. The phantom question was: Flavor of this image (bias, dark, flat, arc, science, smear, engineering, ignore, help) []: Invalid flavor . Please try again REPEAT Dan sent out a shipTape message by hand, since the (hopefully) successful trial of endNight did not know about the imager tapes and the first endNight attempt said to ship the first Gang tape (JL4316) which we are assuming is bad - it may not be. A nice way to end the night, eh? Lost in tape oblivion. While Dan was cleaning up, he killed his fsaoimage and the zombied SOP session came back to life. It eventually died as it tried to do things that it could no longer do, but this is probably a clue to its demise. I couldn't get my spell checker to work properly - will investigate later. Please forgive the typs. ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Stripe Flavor Lambda Last Begin End Frame Comments ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2508 100 O ignore 25.65 29.18 28 2509 100 O bias 34.95 38.95 41 good bias - tbars unlatched camera in doghouseh ---=== IMAGING RUN DETAILS ===--- ---=== SKIPPY RESULTS ===--- Run Frame nFrames stars muErr muRms nuErr nuRms rot --------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== LTMATCH RESULTS ===--- Run Field nFields nGood rowMean rowSig colMean colSig rot --------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== SPECTROSCOPY DATA SUMMARY ===--- UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 ----- sequence 10642, plate -9999 ------- 22:58 10642 0.0 bias {{}} 23:01 10643 0.0 bias {{}} ----- sequence 10644, plate 625 ------- 00:42 10644 0.0 bias {{}} ----- sequence 10645, plate -9999 ------- 00:53 10645 0.0 bias {{}} ----- sequence 10646, plate 625 ------- 02:26 10646 0.0 bias {{}} 02:50 10647 10.0 flat pre-flat 02:52 10648 2.0 arc pre-arc 03:11 10649 900.0 target science 03:29 10650 900.0 target science 03:47 10651 901.0 target science 03:54 10652 240.0 smear {{Smear Pattern}} ----- sequence 10653, plate 635 ------- 04:18 10653 10.0 flat pre-flat 04:20 10654 2.0 arc pre-arc 04:40 10655 900.0 target science 04:58 10656 900.0 target science 05:16 10657 901.0 target science 05:34 10658 901.0 target science 05:42 10659 240.0 smear {{Smear Pattern}} ----- sequence 10660, plate 377 ------- 06:14 10660 10.0 flat pre-flat 06:16 10661 2.0 arc pre-arc 06:35 10662 901.0 target science 06:53 10663 900.0 target science 07:11 10664 900.0 target science 07:19 10665 240.0 smear {{Smear Pattern}} ----- sequence 10666, plate 653 ------- 07:38 10666 10.0 flat pre-flat 07:40 10667 2.0 arc pre-arc 07:59 10668 901.0 target science 08:18 10669 900.0 target science - suspect:lost tracking during exposure 08:36 10670 900.0 target science 08:53 10671 900.0 target science 09:01 10672 240.0 smear {{Smear Pattern}} ----- sequence 10673, plate 663 ------- 09:20 10673 10.0 flat pre-flat 09:23 10674 2.0 arc pre-arc 09:41 10675 900.0 target science 09:59 10676 900.0 target science 10:26 10677 0.0 bias science {{}} 10:37 10678 240.0 smear {{Smear Pattern}} ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument getclock Az Alt Rot Scale ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21:07 7:625 998622462 -0.002060 0.002567 -0.019625 0.999980 00:17 4:377 998633869 0.000361 0.001798 0.009129 0.999990 01:36 5:653 998638615 0.000869 0.001436 -0.004681 0.999920 03:18 3:663 998644708 -0.001610 -0.000120 0.028267 0.999890 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== DATA TAPE SUMMARY ===--- (assuming endNight succeeds) Goes: JL4304-4309, JL4319 Stays: JL4310-4315, JL4320 ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21:07 7:625 0.99998 198 966 -340 223 64.1 17.6 1 205 gdr 1.1 00:18 4:377 0.99999 99 954 -300 31 53.0 16.2 3 254 gdr 1.7 00:51 4:377 0.99995 493 1272 -300 18 55.9 16.3 5 208 gdr 1.1 01:43 5:653 0.99992 789 1564 -300 32 41.7 15.7 5 262 gdr 1.4 03:19 3:663 0.99989 1085 1830 -270 26 44.4 16.3 2 39 gdr 1.8 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 16:57 72 37 5 269 (W) 342 - 17:30 66 37 1 354 (NNW) 335 - 18:02 68 35 0 209 (SSW) 331 - 18:55 69 37 5 267 (W) 335 - 19:27 66 37 4 276 (W) 365 - 19:59 63 37 1 286 (WNW) 349 - 20:31 63 37 1 259 (W) 450 - 21:04 64 37 1 197 (SSW) 462 - 21:34 64 38 1 244 (WSW) 489 - 22:04 64 38 0 241 (WSW) 485 - 22:36 64 38 1 255 (WSW) 456 - 23:07 62 38 1 233 (SW) 438 - 23:41 61 38 5 209 (SSW) 424 - 00:11 62 38 3 249 (WSW) 442 - 00:45 61 38 5 213 (SSW) 503 - 01:17 60 38 4 236 (SW) 518 - 01:49 59 38 4 260 (W) 432 - 02:22 62 38 3 276 (W) 483 - 02:54 62 37 2 336 (NNW) 465 - 03:26 61 36 3 351 (NNW) 379 - 03:59 60 35 4 39 (NE) 418 - 04:31 61 34 5 357 (NNW) 333 - 05:03 61 34 5 358 (NNW) 349 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- Opened doors/engaged fans: 18:15 Opened telescope: 19:40 Done filling spectros: 20:10 Closed: 05:15 Telescope with Cartridge 2 mounted in enclosure. ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v3_53_7 - declared current today Watcher: v2_9_0 MCP: v5_3_1 TPM: v2_4_1 AstroDa: v14_36 TCC: 2.5.5 tccMon: v1_6 sdssProcedures: v1_22 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 0.0720 0.0710 Axial B: -0.0890 -0.0980 Axial C: 0.0630 0.0610 Trans D: 4.1870 4.1800 Lateral E: 1.9335 1.9365 Lateral F: 0.4340 0.4370 GALILS Commanded: 5400. -3700. 900. -200. 31550. 30650. Actual: 5400. -3700. 900. -200. 31550. 30650. SETMIR VALUES primDesOrient: 0.00 -11.80 23.00 1256.90 642.10 primOrient: 0.00 -12.16 22.81 1257.41 642.19 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.0 Air temp: 21.4 C Altitude: 30.13 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -1.2940 -1.2900 Axial B: -1.3030 -1.3150 Axial C: -1.3130 -1.3060 Trans D: 0.1390 0.1890 GALILS Commanded: 1583850. 1583850. 1583850. 2600. 3800. Actual: 1583693. 1583265. 1582616. 2600. 3800. SETMIR VALUES secDesOrient: 1257.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -175.00 secOrient: 1256.49 0.27 -0.19 -0.12 -175.30 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---