APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Saturday February 6, 2010 (MJD 55234) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Dmitry Bizyaev Howard Brewington Kaike Pan (afternoon) Paul Harding (IM) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- First part of night was productive; the second half had some clouds. Observed: --------- Cart 10, plate 3745 DONE Cart 16, plate 3751 DONE CArt 12, plate 3759 not done Cart 13, plate 3770 DONE Cart 11, plate 3794 not done One of the slit-head covers for cartridge 11 did not fit very well; there was a gap between cover and cartridge body. It was replaced with one of the covers from cartridge 14. We're starting to see the banding artifact in the cloud camera, again. We could not get the Lindy-cart shed to lock. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- All systems and actors were checked. No problems was noticed. Checked BOSS spectro collimation on cartridge 10 and 11. the two cartridges returned consistent results. Howard clearned ice from cartridge bay area. A side cover on cartridge 11 does not fit very well (there is a gap between cover and cartridge body). I replaced the cover with one from cartridge 14. Compressed mcptpm data for 10 mjd. 23:10Z Doors cracked and fan on. Night: ------ 00:45Z Enclosure off, topped-off spectro secondary dewars, checked top/bottom balance, did a test slew, checked fiducial crossings for each axis, and started the DIMM. 01:50Z Cart 10, plate 3745, BOSS, GSOGTF. Seeing was ~0.5" as reported by the DIMM 03:06:09 APO.harding: can you note the design HA and the ha range we observed over 03:06:22 APO.dmbiz: We need limits in the database, not the "minimum time" 03:06:40 APO.harding: in the log and that there were increasing clouds Plate declared DONE; see below. ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55212 1.7 2.3 2.0 2.7 901.0 8.7 3745-55210-01 55212 1.2 1.6 1.5 1.9 900.0 6.2 3745-55210-01 55212 1.2 1.6 1.4 1.7 901.0 5.9 3745-55210-01 55212 1.7 1.7 2.0 1.7 901.0 7.1 3745-55210-01 55234 2.4 4.0 3.4 5.7 901.0 15.5 3745-55210-01 55234 2.8 4.6 3.7 5.6 900.0 16.7 3745-55210-01 55234 2.6 4.5 4.1 5.2 900.0 16.4 3745-55210-01 55234 1.8 2.7 2.8 2.9 900.0 10.2 3745-55210-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 15.4 23.0 20.9 27.4 7204.0 --> 86.7 03:12Z Cart 16, plate 3751, BOSS, GSOGTF. Seeing was ~0.75" as reported by the DIMM. The arcs of frame 108133 in the post cals is bad and should not be used. Plate decared DONE; see below. ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55213 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 901.0 0.0 3751-55213-01 55213 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 900.0 0.0 3751-55213-01 55213 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 901.0 0.0 3751-55213-01 55213 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 900.0 0.1 3751-55213-01 55216 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 900.0 0.2 3751-55213-01 55217 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 900.0 0.0 3751-55213-01 55217 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 184.0 0.0 3751-55213-01 55217 1.6 5.7 1.0 4.9 900.0 13.2 3751-55213-01 55217 1.9 6.5 1.2 5.8 900.0 15.4 3751-55213-01 55217 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 145.0 0.0 3751-55213-01 55234 3.1 7.6 1.8 5.9 900.0 18.4 3751-55213-01 55234 3.3 8.8 2.1 6.6 901.0 20.8 3751-55213-01 55234 2.6 7.6 1.6 5.6 901.0 17.4 3751-55213-01 55234 3.4 9.1 2.3 7.3 900.0 22.1 3751-55213-01 55234 2.5 7.1 1.8 5.4 900.0 16.8 3751-55213-01 55234 1.0 2.3 0.7 1.9 900.0 5.9 3751-55213-01 55234 0.3 0.9 0.3 0.9 901.0 2.4 3751-55213-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 19.7 55.6 12.9 44.5 13834.0 --> 132.7 05:45Z Cart 12, plate 3759, BOSS, GSOGTF. Seeing was ~0.5" as reported by the DIMM. Not done yet. ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55233 0.9 2.0 0.7 1.5 900.0 5.1 3759-55211-01 55233 0.8 1.5 0.5 0.8 900.0 3.6 3759-55211-01 55234 0.5 0.9 0.4 0.7 901.0 2.5 3759-55211-01 55234 0.7 1.5 0.4 0.8 900.0 3.4 3759-55211-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 2.9 5.9 2.0 3.8 3601.0 --> 14.6 06:47Z Cart 13, plate 3770, BOSS, GSOGTF. Seeing was ~1.5" as reported by the guider. Declared DONE; see below. ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55233 1.4 4.8 2.6 5.4 900.0 14.2 3770-55218-01 55233 1.5 5.1 2.8 5.7 901.0 15.1 3770-55218-01 55233 1.5 6.1 2.9 5.7 900.0 16.2 3770-55218-01 55233 1.2 5.3 2.5 5.2 900.0 14.2 3770-55218-01 55233 1.1 5.1 2.3 5.1 900.0 13.6 3770-55218-01 55233 0.9 5.5 2.1 4.8 901.0 13.3 3770-55218-01 55233 0.9 5.3 1.9 4.9 900.0 13.0 3770-55218-01 55234 0.4 1.2 0.7 1.0 901.0 3.3 3770-55218-01 55234 1.1 3.6 2.2 3.6 901.0 10.5 3770-55218-01 55234 0.6 2.0 1.0 1.8 901.0 5.4 3770-55218-01 55234 0.5 1.8 1.0 1.8 900.0 5.1 3770-55218-01 55234 0.3 0.9 0.5 0.9 901.0 2.6 3770-55218-01 55234 0.3 0.9 0.5 0.9 901.0 2.6 3770-55218-01 55234 0.5 1.5 0.8 1.5 901.0 4.3 3770-55218-01 55234 1.0 4.3 2.0 4.0 900.0 11.3 3770-55218-01 55234 1.0 4.3 2.0 4.0 900.0 11.3 3770-55218-01 55234 1.0 3.9 2.0 3.5 900.0 10.4 3770-55218-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 14.2 57.3 27.8 55.8 14408.0 --> 155.1 09:45Z Cart 11, plate 3794, BOSS, GSOGTF. Seeing was ~0.75" as reported by the guider. Not done yet. ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55233 1.3 3.7 1.6 4.0 900.0 10.6 3794-55232-01 55233 1.3 3.8 1.6 4.1 901.0 10.8 3794-55232-01 55233 0.5 1.5 0.8 1.4 900.0 4.2 3794-55232-01 55233 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.3 901.0 1.4 3794-55232-01 55233 1.4 4.2 1.8 4.2 901.0 11.6 3794-55232-01 55233 1.5 4.2 1.9 4.3 900.0 11.9 3794-55232-01 55233 1.4 4.1 1.8 4.1 900.0 11.4 3794-55232-01 55233 1.2 4.3 1.5 3.7 900.0 10.7 3794-55232-01 55234 0.7 1.7 1.0 1.3 900.0 4.7 3794-55232-01 55234 0.4 0.8 0.5 0.6 900.0 2.3 3794-55232-01 55234 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.4 900.0 1.3 3794-55232-01 55234 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 901.0 0.4 3794-55232-01 55234 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 901.0 0.3 3794-55232-01 55234 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 901.0 0.4 3794-55232-01 55234 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 900.0 0.4 3794-55232-01 55234 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 900.0 0.2 3794-55232-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 10.5 29.7 13.6 28.8 14406.0 --> 82.6 12:31Z Twilight 12:35Z Enclosure on 12:41Z endNight finished and was happy ---=== 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): y QA Procedures Done (y/n): y 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 22:56Z 36 15 14 243 (WSW) 210 - 23:29Z 34 7 14 274 (W) 170 - 00:01Z 34 15 10 265 (W) 237 - 00:49Z 32 11 8 265 (W) 274 - 01:21Z 32 17 12 248 (WSW) 375 - 01:53Z 32 18 6 255 (WSW) 460 - 02:25Z 32 19 12 235 (SW) 464 - 02:57Z 32 20 8 264 (W) 493 - 03:30Z 33 14 13 244 (WSW) 346 - 04:02Z 32 12 8 256 (WSW) 279 - 04:34Z 33 11 9 266 (W) 297 - 05:06Z 33 14 9 276 (W) 284 - 05:38Z 33 17 8 271 (W) 319 - 06:10Z 32 18 9 262 (W) 324 - 06:42Z 32 18 9 237 (WSW) 343 - 07:15Z 33 17 8 213 (SSW) 376 - 07:47Z 33 15 14 226 (SW) 369 - 08:19Z 32 16 14 203 (SSW) 372 - 08:51Z 31 17 16 209 (SSW) 331 - 09:23Z 32 17 15 205 (SSW) 377 - 09:55Z 31 18 15 206 (SSW) 394 - 10:32Z 30 18 15 200 (SSW) 451 - 11:04Z 29 18 19 203 (SSW) 412 - 11:36Z 29 18 15 207 (SSW) 421 - 12:08Z 29 18 13 208 (SSW) 431 - 12:40Z 29 18 15 226 (SW) 371 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 23:10Z Doors and louvers opened, fan on 00:45Z Enclouse off 13:35Z Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 13:00Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 11 Counterweights at: 235 units LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 264lbs, 18 psi Imager lbs, psi (warm) ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_40_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: v6_6_3 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13_1 TCC: TCC 2.11.0 2009-06-24 sdssProcedures v3_02 sopActor: v1_0_4 guiderActor: v1_0_18 gcameraICC: v1_0_5 alertsActor: v1_0_3 platedbActor: v1_0_2 (test) platedb v1_0_3 (test) ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.7040 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0260 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3780 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6090 11.6170 Lateral E 10.3886 10.3505 Lateral F 11.9634 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.: 0.3 Alt.: 29.999993 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6310 18.6150 Axial B 15.6400 15.6120 Axial C 13.8440 13.8170 Trans D -11.7770 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1597866. 1565608. 1585010. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597721. 1566188. 1588095. -7597. -12380. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.07 -3.05 -9.41 9.92 234.06 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---