APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday May 20, 2010 (MJD 55337) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Dan Oravetz Audrey Simmons ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- BOSS Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Crystal clear night with excellent seeing (except for a few minutes at the end of the night). Observed: *Cart 11, plate 4051 (DONE) *Cart 12, plate 4025 *Cart 14, plate 4010 Cart 17, plate 3932 (DONE) Cart 16, plate 3925 Even though the conditions were perfect, we were only obtaining S/N values of ~1-1.5 within SOS for both blue cameras for the *ed plates. All hartmanns and collimate values were checked, and all cameras were in or very close to being in focus. Perhaps there is an issue with the plate designs for 4000+ plates? It seems like this is the only thing that is in common. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- Attempted to take some spectro biases, but the boss thread in sop was hung up. Craig fixed it. Error message below. 01:19:27 APO.asimmons 27 sop w text="1 tasks failed to respond: boss" 01:19:27 APO.asimmons 27 sop i stageState="doCalibs.expose","failed",0.0,0.0 01:19:27 APO.asimmons 27 sop f text="Failed to take bias exposure" When checking out the telescope, we noticed that the 45 and 60 degrees altitude fiducials did not register while moving the telescope to the zenith. This was also the case last night. 01:35Z - Began ventilating. Night: ------ 02:14Z - Opened enclosure to crystal clear skies. Force filled spectrographs. 02:33Z - gotoField cart 11, BOSS plate 4051. 02:35Z - Hartmanns (full) 115710-11. 02:41Z - Hartmanns (full) 115712-13. 02:54Z - Cals 115714-15. 03:10Z - Hartmanns 115716-17, Cals 18-19. 03:25Z - 15 min exposure 115720. Seeing 1.1" 03:41Z - 15 min exposure 115721. 04:01Z - 15 min exposure 115722. 04:19Z - 15 min exposure 115723. 04:35Z - 15 min exposure 115724. 04:53Z - Cals 115725-26. This plate is complete. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55336 0.7 3.0 0.9 2.8 900.8 7.4 4051-55334-01 55336 0.9 3.1 1.1 3.6 900.8 8.7 4051-55334-01 55336 1.1 3.4 1.4 4.4 900.8 10.3 4051-55334-01 55336 1.4 4.1 1.7 5.4 900.8 12.6 4051-55334-01 55336 1.3 3.5 1.7 5.2 900.8 11.7 4051-55334-01 55336 1.4 3.6 1.8 5.5 900.8 12.3 4051-55334-01 55336 1.4 3.5 1.7 5.1 900.8 11.7 4051-55334-01 55337 0.9 2.7 1.2 4.6 900.8 9.4 4051-55334-01 55337 1.0 2.6 1.3 4.9 900.8 9.8 4051-55334-01 55337 1.0 3.0 1.3 5.2 900.8 10.5 4051-55334-01 55337 1.0 2.7 1.4 5.2 900.8 10.3 4051-55334-01 55337 1.0 2.8 1.2 5.1 900.8 10.1 4051-55334-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 13.1 38.0 16.7 57.0 10809.6 --> 124.8 05:00Z - Mounted cart 12, BOSS plate 4025. 05:05Z - Hartmanns 115727-28, cals 29-30. 05:13Z - 15 min exposure 115731. Seeing 1.3" 05:26Z - 15 min exposure 115732. 05:46Z - 15 min exposure 115733. 06:02Z - 15 min exposure 115734. 06:19Z - 15 min exposure 115735. 06:36Z - Cals 115736-7. This plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55337 1.2 5.1 1.3 5.6 900.8 13.2 4025-55332-01 55337 1.4 5.4 1.5 6.2 900.8 14.5 4025-55332-01 55337 1.4 5.0 1.6 6.6 900.8 14.6 4025-55332-01 55337 1.6 5.4 1.6 7.2 900.8 15.8 4025-55332-01 55337 1.5 5.6 1.6 7.5 900.8 16.2 4025-55332-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 7.1 26.5 7.6 33.1 4504.0 --> 74.3 06:47Z - Mounted cart 14, BOSS plate 4010. 06:52Z - Hartmanns 115738-39, cals 115740-41. 07:01Z - 15 min exposure 115742. Seeing 1.3" 07:16Z - 15 min exposure 115743. 07:34Z - 15 min exposure 115744. 07:52Z - Cals 115745-46. This plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55336 1.5 6.1 1.6 5.3 900.8 14.5 4010-55334-01 55336 1.6 6.3 2.0 5.5 900.8 15.4 4010-55334-01 55336 1.6 6.6 2.0 5.5 900.8 15.7 4010-55334-01 55337 1.2 7.0 1.2 6.2 900.8 15.6 4010-55334-01 55337 1.4 7.2 1.5 6.5 900.8 16.6 4010-55334-01 55337 1.6 7.4 1.9 6.3 900.8 17.2 4010-55334-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 8.9 40.6 10.2 35.3 5404.8 --> 95.0 08:00Z - Mounted cart 17, BOSS plate 3932. 08:02Z - Hartmanns 115747-48, cals 49-50. 08:11Z - 15 min exposure 115751. Seeing 1.1" 08:28Z - 15 min exposure 115752. 08:37Z - 15 min exposure 115753. 09:00Z - 15 min exposure 115754. 09:18Z - Cals 115755-56. This plate is DONE. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55337 4.0 9.8 4.3 9.7 900.8 27.8 3932-55337-01 55337 4.0 10.1 4.4 9.7 900.8 28.2 3932-55337-01 55337 3.7 8.6 3.8 9.9 900.8 26.0 3932-55337-01 55337 3.1 6.9 3.2 7.8 900.8 21.0 3932-55337-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 14.8 35.4 15.7 37.1 3603.2 --> 103.0 09:25Z - Mounted cart 16, BOSS plate 3925. 09:28Z - Hartmanns 115757-58, cals 59-60. 09:37Z - 15 min exposure 115761. Seeing 1.4" 09:55Z - 15 min exposure 115762. Seeing 2.0" 10:11Z - 15 min exposure 115763. 10:28Z - 15 min exposure 115764. 10:44Z - Cals 115765-66. This plate is not finished yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55336 2.4 4.3 2.0 9.0 900.8 17.7 3925-55336-01 55336 2.3 3.7 1.8 7.8 900.8 15.6 3925-55336-01 55336 2.1 3.6 1.7 8.4 900.8 15.8 3925-55336-01 55336 1.4 2.7 1.0 5.9 900.8 11.0 3925-55336-01 55337 2.5 4.3 2.0 8.4 900.8 17.2 3925-55336-01 55337 1.4 3.1 1.1 3.9 900.8 9.5 3925-55336-01 55337 1.4 2.6 0.9 3.9 900.8 8.8 3925-55336-01 55337 1.2 2.4 1.0 5.5 900.8 10.1 3925-55336-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 14.7 26.7 11.5 52.8 7206.4 --> 105.7 10:59Z - Closed enclosure and stopped ventilating. 11:01Z - 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 04:02Z imager 4.52 0.0000 56.49 0.0000 183.76 0.0000 1.000200 05:35Z imager 3.65 0.0000 57.02 0.0000 183.01 0.0000 1.000250 07:06Z imager -11.54 0.0000 56.40 0.0000 170.25 0.0000 1.000250 09:06Z imager -71.26 0.0000 56.29 0.0000 123.35 0.0000 1.000250 09:54Z imager 281.87 0.0000 50.48 0.0000 120.09 0.0000 1.000250 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 04:02Z cart 11 1.00020 -1974 -247 226 4 56.5 13.4 9 209 - 1.1 05:35Z cart 12 1.00025 -2468 -702 181 4 57.0 13.7 11 262 - 1.3 07:06Z cart 14 1.00025 -2468 -690 192 -12 56.4 13.4 7 260 - 1.3 09:06Z cart 17 1.00025 -2468 -664 218 -71 56.3 13.3 10 235 - 1.1 09:54Z cart 16 1.00025 -2468 -623 241 282 50.5 13.1 10 241 - 1.4 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 01:14Z 61 14 8 264 (W) 854 - 01:46Z 58 15 5 261 (W) 1066 - 02:18Z 56 16 8 229 (SW) 1505 - 02:51Z 56 17 12 214 (SW) 1090 - 03:23Z 56 15 10 232 (SW) 1129 - 03:55Z 56 15 10 219 (SW) 973 - 04:27Z 56 14 10 235 (SW) 782 - 04:59Z 56 14 10 222 (SW) 767 - 05:31Z 56 14 8 228 (SW) 713 - 06:03Z 56 15 8 252 (WSW) 712 - 06:36Z 56 15 6 256 (WSW) 742 - 07:07Z 56 15 7 260 (W) 692 - 07:40Z 56 15 7 263 (W) 660 - 08:12Z 57 15 7 262 (W) 819 - 08:44Z 56 16 5 261 (W) 724 - 09:16Z 55 15 9 239 (WSW) 664 - 09:48Z 55 15 10 237 (WSW) 619 - 10:21Z 55 16 11 232 (SW) 716 - 10:53Z 55 16 10 235 (SW) 706 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 01:35Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 02:00Z - Opened enclosure. 10:59Z - Enclosure is on, doors and louvers are closed, and fans are off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 10:59Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 16 Counterweights at: 245 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scale: Spectro 93.50 lbs, 25.52 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 TCC: TCC 2.11.0 2009-06-24 sdssProcedures: v3_02 SoS: v5_1_8 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 2010-05-21 01:15:53.083843 -----STUI software----- STUI ------- 0.5.3 2010-05-06 hub --------- Tag: sdss3_v1_1_3 boss -------- trunk+svn111177 specMech-- 3.0.1 guider -------v1_0_20e+svn107637M gcamera --- v1_0_6 MCP ------- v6_6_5 alerts ------- v1_0_3 apo ------- ? sop ----------v1_1_2 platedb ----v1_0_4 tcc ----------TCC 2.11.0 2009-06-24 -----Other software----- use spVersion on sos3 for others SOS3 ------ ? plate-mapper - ? ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.6960 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0270 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3720 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6090 11.6170 Lateral E 10.3759 10.3505 Lateral F 11.9380 11.9253 GALILS Commanded: 9900. 400. 5850. 1200. 2950. 2750. Actual: 9917. 401. 5832. 1205. 2954. 2757. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -3.30 5.10 278.08 178.06 PriOrient: 0.00 -3.04 5.26 277.70 178.07 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 14.7 Alt.: 29.999985 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6040 18.6150 Axial B 15.6400 15.6120 Axial C 13.8230 13.8170 Trans D -11.7790 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1597665. 1566257. 1588052. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597721. 1566188. 1588095. -7597. -12380. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.99 -3.98 -8.97 10.21 234.67 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---