APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday October 7, 2010 (MJD 55477) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Viktor Malanushenko Kaike Pan Support: Craig Loomis (online) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- 7 Oct 2010 55477.0 0.05 02:02 11:40 20:05 05:45 BOSS 9.6 hours ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- The sky was clear, seeing was good (1.0"-1.5") for most of the night. We observed six BOSS plates. Cart 10, plate 4092. DONE. cart 11, plate 4196. not done. cart 14, plate 4216. DONE cart 13, plate 4234. not done cart 17, plate 4256. DONE cart 15, plate 3668. not done. A small black knob found: When cartridge 13 was pulled out from cartridge bay, a small black knob was found on the top cover of the cartridge. We tried, but could not identify where it belongs to. The knob is put on a self in the 2.5m control room. gcamera disconnected itself one time. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- On telescope all checking, no problems. 22:50Z opened doors, fans on started ventillation; door closed to calibrations. 23:12Z started calibrations 23:43Z calibrations fonished and collimation is done. Night: ----- 00:45Z enclosure off. 01:15Z cart 10, plate 4092. SOGTF. 01:45Z started sciences exposures with photometric sky and decent seeing, 1.1"-1.4' by Guider. At end of third exposure seeing become worse at 1.5-1.7". Seeing back to ~1.2" during 6th exposure. Seven exposures were obtained. The plate is DONE. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55477 2.2 5.0 2.1 4.8 900.8 14.1 4092-55477-01 55477 2.9 6.2 2.8 5.5 900.8 17.4 4092-55477-01 55477 2.7 5.7 2.7 4.4 900.8 15.5 4092-55477-01 55477 2.2 4.7 2.2 3.4 900.8 12.5 4092-55477-01 55477 2.3 5.2 2.4 3.0 900.8 12.9 4092-55477-01 55477 3.0 6.2 2.8 2.9 900.8 14.9 4092-55477-01 55477 3.0 6.6 3.1 2.8 900.8 15.5 4092-55477-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 18.3 39.6 18.1 26.8 6305.6 --> 102.8 03:45Z cart 11, plate 4196. SOGTF. with all boxes checked, gotoField returned the follow error: 03:54:00 APO.viktorm 106 sop f text="Failed to take flats" We checked and found that the BOSS flat is there, but gcamera flat is not. We guess that the error refers to gcamera flat. We checked and confirmed that exposure time on "gotoField" section are correct. But the exposure for gcamera flat in calibs section was zero. 8 minutes was lost to the problem because we tried to take the second set of calibs. 04:15Z started science exposures under clear sky and okay seeing (~1.5") Two exposures were taken on this plate. The plate is not done. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55477 2.3 4.8 1.9 4.1 900.8 13.1 4196-55477-01 55477 2.8 5.8 2.6 5.1 900.8 16.3 4196-55477-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 5.1 10.6 4.5 9.2 1801.6 --> 29.4 04:50Z cart 14, plate 4216. SOGTF. We changed gcamera flat in "calibs" section from 0 sec to 0.5 sec, and did a "sop restart" during the cartridge change. This two thing (more like sop restart did the trick) fixed the problem of gcamera flat failure during gotoField. 05:00Z started science exposures. Clear sky with anverage seeing (1.3-1.6"). Seven exp. were taken on the plate. It is done. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55477 2.4 5.3 2.5 4.8 900.8 15.0 4216-55472-01 55477 2.6 5.6 2.8 5.3 900.8 16.3 4216-55472-01 55477 2.5 5.5 2.6 5.2 900.8 15.8 4216-55472-01 55477 2.3 5.2 2.5 4.7 900.8 14.7 4216-55472-01 55477 2.3 5.2 2.3 4.6 900.8 14.4 4216-55472-01 55477 2.0 5.0 2.1 4.3 900.8 13.4 4216-55472-01 55477 1.9 4.7 1.9 4.0 900.8 12.5 4216-55472-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 16.0 36.5 16.7 32.9 6305.6 --> 102.1 07:00Z cart 13, plate 4234. SOGTF. 07:10Z started science exposures. Clear sky. Seeing at 1.6". During the second exposure, the gcameraICC disconnected itself. gcameraICC and guiderActor had to be restarted from stagemanager. But unfortunately, the first attempt restarting guider was from observer account, not sdss3 account. So we get an error: 07:55:43 .guider 10 guider f text="Error in processing guide images: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/data/gcam/55477/proc-gimg-0780.fits'" 25 mintues was lost to the problem. 4 exposures were obtained. The plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55477 2.4 5.8 1.9 4.6 900.8 14.7 4234-55477-01 55477 1.9 4.6 1.2 2.6 900.8 10.3 4234-55477-01 55477 3.6 7.2 3.0 5.1 900.8 18.9 4234-55477-01 55477 4.0 7.7 3.4 5.3 900.8 20.4 4234-55477-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 11.9 25.3 9.5 17.6 3603.2 --> 64.3 08:55Z cart 17, plate 4256. SOGTF. 09:05Z started science exposures under clear sky and excellent seeing ~ 1.1". Seeing was worse, at ~1.4" for the last three exposures. Seven exposures declare the plate done. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55477 2.3 6.1 2.7 6.1 900.8 17.2 4256-55477-01 55477 2.3 5.6 2.6 5.5 900.8 16.0 4256-55477-01 55477 2.5 5.8 2.6 5.7 900.8 16.6 4256-55477-01 55477 2.2 5.5 2.5 5.6 900.8 15.8 4256-55477-01 55477 2.0 5.0 2.3 5.0 900.8 14.3 4256-55477-01 55477 1.6 3.8 1.8 3.9 900.8 11.1 4256-55477-01 55477 1.8 4.1 2.1 4.3 900.8 12.3 4256-55477-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 14.7 35.9 16.6 36.1 6305.6 --> 103.3 11:05Z cart 15, plate 3668. SOGTF. 11:20Z started science. The sky is clear, seeing was good at 1.1-1.3". Two exposures were obtained. The plate is not done yet. 11:55Z enclosure on, Fans off. 12:08Z: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== 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 58 36 13 192 (SSW) 444 - clear Weather data does not get here. The sky was clear for almost whole night, and seeing was good for most of the night. ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 22:50Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 00:45Z - Enclosure off. 11:55Z - Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 12:15Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: 15 Cartridge Counterweights at: 295 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 169 lbs, 22 psi SP2 206 lbs, 22 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- getVersions, 2010-10-07 23:09:50 ----STUI software STUI: 1.0b4 2010-10-01 alerts: trunk+svn114742 apo: v1_5 boss: v2_3_9 boss.daq: 1.2.14 boss.specMech: 3.0.1 gcamera: v1_2_2 guider: v1_2_1 hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_1_4 mcp: v6_6_5 mcp.plc: 25 platedb: v1_0_5 sop: v1_1_4 sos: v1_1_4 tcc: 2.13.0 -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06 ------ -- Other versions ---- idlspec2d (sos3) --- v5_4_19 plate-mapper3 ------ NOCVS:v5_0_7 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -5.5190 -5.5100 Axial B 16.0970 16.0940 Axial C 15.9180 15.9220 Trans D 11.0040 11.0100 Lateral E 10.6426 10.6553 Lateral F 12.2555 12.2301 GALILS Commanded: 10600. -250. 5800. 10250. 13050. 12650. Actual: 10600. -250. 5800. 10250. 13053. 12647. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -13.67 10.53 574.80 742.37 PriOrient: 0.00 -13.67 10.53 574.80 742.37 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 14.7 Alt.: 30.006997 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -7.8360 -7.8320 Axial B -0.0450 -0.0410 Axial C 13.8150 13.8180 Trans D 14.1840 14.1840 GALILS Commanded: 1585343. 1566666. 1599050. -1450. -50. Actual: 1585350. 1566695. 1598880. -1462. -69. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -9.00 -4.00 -58.00 23.67 SecOrient: 1257.04 -9.07 -3.99 -58.08 23.36 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---