APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Monday May 11, 2009 (MJD 54963) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Audrey Simmons Alaina Shelden ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- MARVELS Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Photometric skies, some thin clouds showed up ~6:00Z. Thicker ones shortly after. Observed the following MARVELS plates (cart, plate, broken fibers) Cart 3 plate 3277 A and B 52, 42 broken Cart 6 plate 3416 A and B 24 broken (A) Cart 7 plate 3489 A and B 76 broken (A) Cart 5 plate 3490 B 96 broken Cart 1 plate 3494 (preselection) ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: --------- No problems in the checkout, collimation left at ~11 C Filename 02% 05% 10% 50% 90% 95% 98% ------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ sdR-b1-00061076.fit -5.8 -3.6 -2.5 2.7 7.4 9.0 10.7 sdR-b2-00061076.fit -7.9 -6.4 -4.1 1.0 7.2 9.6 11.0 sdR-r1-00061076.fit -6.3 -4.9 -3.3 1.7 7.7 9.3 11.7 sdR-r2-00061076.fit -7.4 -5.4 -4.2 1.9 7.3 9.4 12.4 00:45Z Ventilation started 02:36Z Photometric sky, seeing ~1.0" Night: ------- 01:52Z Sunset 01:55Z Enclosure off 02:10Z Dust is in the yellow, keeping an eye on it. 02:14Z Cart 3 plate 3277A Jan09b_MARVELS 02:23Z gotoField, found stars using offsets from 2 nights ago. Still bright. 02:31Z Audrey was in manual mode, so the lamp never turned on. Ignore frame TO2.09.07.370 02:32Z Start calibrations (exposure name, exposure time, average PMT) T02:33:17.240 3000 sec T02:37:49.030 15 sec 47182 02:52Z Start 50 min exposure seeing 1.0" T02:51:28.570 50 min 33.07 Fiber 52 and 42 appear to be broken 03:24Z Evening twilight (18 deg) 03:43Z Cart 6 plate 3416A Mar09a_MARVELS 03:44Z Calibrations T03:44:18.390 15 sec 47209 T03:46:25.320 3000 sec 175.6 T03:50:56.460 15 sec 47124 03:54Z Start 50 min science exposure T03:54:56.570 50 min 29.12 Fiber 24 appears to be broken 04:43Z Moonrise 04:45Z Cart 6 plate 3416B Mar09a_MARVELS 04:46Z Calibrations T04:46:45.070 15 sec 47833 T04:48:57.310 3000 sec 176.1 T04:53:27.170 15 sec 46988 04:57Z gotoField, used previous offsets and an FK5 to find the field 05:00Z start 50 min science exposure seeing ~1.3" T04:58:52.230 50 min 23.07 No broken fibers (woo!) 05:50Z Cart 3 plate 3277B Jan09b_MARVELS 05:51Z Calibrations T05:50:43.080 15 sec 46494 T05:52:48.550 3000 sec 169.7 T05:57:19.740 15 sec 46077 05:59Z gotoField, used previous offsets to find stars 06:08Z Start 50 min science exposure seeing ~1.3" (some thin clouds) T06:08:23.250 50 mins 10.15 No broken fibers (woo!) 06:54Z Exposure finished, but we decided to hold off due to thick clouds. 06:58Z Calibrations T07:00:31.580 15 sec 46151 T07:02:42.630 3000 sec 171.0 T07:07:13.340 15 sec 46084 07:37Z Cart 7 plate 3489A April09a_MARVELS 07:38Z Calibrations T07:36:58.810 15 sec 45873 T07:39:05.080 3000 sec 169.1 T07:43:35.600 15 sec 45838 07:50Z gotoField, used previous offsets and FK5 to find stars 07:53Z start 50 min science exposure, seeing ~1.2" (clouds coming back) T07:53:47.420 50 min 24.36 Fiber 76 appears tp be broken. 08:43Z Cart 7 plate 3489B April09a_MARVELS 08:45Z Calibrations T08:45:34.230 15 sec 46521 T08:47:39.110 3000 sec 172.0 T08:52:08.680 15 sec 46378 08:47Z gotoField, found stars 08:55Z Started 50 min science exposure seeing ~1.7" T08:55:05.560 50 mins 28.59 No broken fibers (woo!) 09:45Z Cart 5 plate 3490B April09a_MARVELS 09:46Z Calibrations T09:46:55.690 15 sec 45758 T09:49:00.490 3000 sec 168.1 T09:53:35.610 15 sec 45949 09:55Z gotoField, found stars 09:58Z started 50 min science exposure, seeing ~1.9" T09:58:54.170 50 min 22.56 Fiber 96 appears to be broken. 10:37Z Morning twilight (18 deg) 10:49Z Calibrations T10:50:38.250 15 sec 46032 T10:52:42.980 3000 sec 166.4 T10:57:24.580 15 sec 45652 10:50Z Cart 1 plate 3494 (preselection) 10:57Z gotoField used FK5 10:58Z preCalibs 11:04Z doNextScience 12 11:07Z doNextScience 12 11:11Z doNextScience 20 11:14Z doNextScience 20 11:17Z doNextScience 20 11:30Z Enclosure on 11:34Z endNight finished and was happy 12:10Z Sunrise ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- ---=== IMAGING RUN DETAILS ===--- ---=== SKIPPY RESULTS ===--- ---=== LTMATCH RESULTS ===--- ---=== SPECTROSCOPY DATA SUMMARY ===--- UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 ----- sequence 61078, plate 3494 ------- 11:01 61078 10.0 flat 11:03 61079 2.0 arc 11:07 61080 13.0 target 11:10 61081 13.0 target 11:13 61082 21.0 target 11:17 61083 20.0 target 11:20 61084 21.0 target ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:37Z 3 3277 216.57 0.0086 65.65 0.0048 52.05 0.0332 1.000140 04:01Z 6 3416 241.74 0.0078 65.64 0.0043 79.37 0.0063 1.000070 04:59Z 6 3416 285.87 0.0014 44.70 0.0027 124.04 -0.0125 1.000040 06:09Z 3 3277 268.92 0.0049 54.08 0.0031 109.94 0.0265 0.999950 07:54Z 7 3489 121.87 0.0051 67.85 0.0097 -73.94 0.0144 1.000270 08:56Z 7 3489 137.04 0.0065 63.90 0.0088 -61.38 0.0063 1.000270 09:59Z 5 3490 149.47 0.0118 75.09 0.0079 -37.42 0.0103 1.000230 11:09Z 1 3494 213.63 0.0160 79.61 0.0043 38.16 0.0170 1.000260 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:37Z 3 3277 1.00014 -1381 -80 -75 217 65.6 15.5 9 185 -- 1.0" 04:00Z 6 3416 1.00007 -690 452 -115 242 65.7 15.7 10 210 -- 1.2" 04:59Z 6 3416 1.00004 -394 746 -125 286 44.8 15.8 16 215 -- 1.3" 06:09Z 3 3277 0.99995 494 1526 -50 269 54.2 15.0 17 205 -- 1.3" 07:54Z 7 3489 1.00027 -2665 -1122 -50 122 67.8 14.1 22 191 -- 1.2" 08:56Z 7 3489 1.00027 -2665 -1014 50 137 63.8 12.6 12 180 -- 1.7" 09:59Z 5 3490 1.00023 -2270 -731 25 149 75.1 12.3 18 184 -- 1.9" 11:09Z 1 3494 1.00026 -2566 -982 25 213 79.6 12.3 13 205 -- 2.3" ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 01:03Z 65 32 13 241 (WSW) 2154 - clear 01:33Z 61 33 17 231 (SW) 2096 - 02:03Z 59 36 9 187 (S) 2059 - 02:35Z 60 31 13 196 (SSW) 2211 - 03:08Z 60 26 16 203 (SSW) 2122 - 03:39Z 59 24 13 221 (SW) 1903 - 04:12Z 60 25 11 198 (SSW) 1970 - 04:42Z 60 22 11 217 (SW) 1743 - 05:15Z 60 21 16 216 (SW) 1787 - 05:45Z 59 28 18 210 (SSW) 1853 - 06:15Z 58 32 12 190 (S) 2035 - some clouds 06:47Z 58 33 16 196 (SSW) 2217 - 07:17Z 57 32 19 192 (SSW) 2060 - 07:47Z 57 35 19 191 (S) 2261 - 08:18Z 56 37 10 195 (SSW) 2445 - clouds 08:48Z 55 37 19 180 (S) 2242 - 09:19Z 55 33 9 201 (SSW) 1981 - 09:49Z 53 34 15 184 (S) 2043 - 10:23Z 53 33 14 166 (SSE) 2122 - 10:53Z 53 27 14 172 (S) 1893 - 11:25Z 55 15 11 226 (SW) 1423 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 00:45Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 01:55Z - Opened enclosure. 11:30Z - Enclosure is on, doors and louvers are closed, and fans are off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 11:36Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 1 Counterweights at: 255 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 195.80 lbs, 17.9 psi Imager lbs, psi (IMAGER IS WARM) ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_39_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: v6_6_0 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13_1 TCC: TCC 2.10.0 2009-01-12 sdssProcedures: v2_43 SoS: v5_1_8 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.0250 -0.0280 Axial B 0.0340 0.0470 Axial C -0.0300 -0.0360 Trans D -0.7530 -0.7600 Lateral E 10.5918 10.5791 Lateral F 12.1793 12.1793 GALILS Commanded: 10450. -100. 5750. 8600. 10350. 10000. Actual: 10471. -76. 5755. 8616. 10374. 10023. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -11.72 8.60 496.70 640.50 PriOrient: 1.06 -11.65 8.77 495.77 639.59 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 15.4 Alt.: 30.000176 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.5860 18.5840 Axial B 15.6300 15.6220 Axial C 13.8080 13.8150 Trans D 15.1040 15.1080 GALILS Commanded: 1626647. 1528833. 1595542. -2950. -4550. Actual: 1626627. 1528808. 1595583. -2945. -4561. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -12.00 -28.00 -39.00 94.77 SecOrient: 1257.00 -11.98 -28.00 -39.19 94.69 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---