APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Sunday November 1, 2009 (MJD 55137) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Alaina Shelden Olena Malanushenko Frank Varosi by call ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- MARVELS Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- It was clear sky with Moon and we were doing Marvels observations for whole night. We observed the next plates: Image Cart Plate Texp Exptype Object - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - T01:18:24.620 6 3490B 3000. 32. 1059. STAR K7 T02:35:58.900 7 3074A 3000. 19. 768. STAR 51PEG T03:43:42.590 7 3074B 3000. 24. 873. STAR HD219828 Fibers 1/2 and 63/64 are broken. T04:54:18.980 8 3629A 3000. 28. 955. STAR HD9407 T06:50:36.590 1 3637A 3000. 19. 774. STAR GJ176 Fibers 93/94 and 115/116 are broken. T08:09:47.380 9 3635A 3000. 24. 833. STAR HD43691 T09:15:32.540 9 3635B 3000. 26. 884. STAR HD49674 Fibers 9/10, 73/74. 83/84 are broken. T10:28:19.850 4 3087B 3000. 28. 952. STAR GL273 Fibers 49/50 are broken. T11:40:20.950 3 3356A 3000. 34. 1064. STAR HD46375 Fibers 93/94 are broken. ------------------------------------------------------------------ We had problem with marvels HD which was full and could not save PMT files. After consultation with Frank, we deleted old data, restarted MJCI, and cleared some flags. Alaina will send detailed information about this. Brightest parts of TIO calibration images are ~25K, but shoud be at least 35K. We think it might be problem with Tungsten lamp and we ask to replace it. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- 23:00Z Restarted servers 23:10Z Turned on ThAr lamp 23:17Z Disk space: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 142G 124G 12G 92% / /dev/sda1 99M 30M 64M 33% /boot /dev/sdb1 917G 838G 33G 97% /data sdssfiles1p:/data1/data 1.8T 100G 1.7T 6% /files hub25mp:/home 92G 86G 5.9G 94% /home_hub25m 23:21Z All actors present and happy 23:21Z gcamera dark time=20 23:21Z boss exposure bias 23:24Z sp1 T= -119.6C, -99.6C sp2 T= -120.3C, -101.6C 23:33Z Plate database website is still down. 23:38Z Started ventilation, telescope checked out fine. 00:25Z Opened enclosure Night: ------- Clear, Full Moon, seeing ~1.5" 00:45Z Calibration trio T00:45:32.930 TIO T00:52:17.070 had ~25-27K counts, little below 35K what we expected. ThAr T00:47:40.490 had up to 12K counts, which was good. Cart 6 is mounted, plate 3490B, Field K7. We did not find stars on GTF, made Dec offset 0.001, and found one star at the edge of fiber. We started guider and it immediately crashed it is usualy happened every night. :-(( We restarted guiderActor and it was happy. It pulled stars to the field. Seeing ~1.5" Started science exposure T01:18:24.620 No broken fibers Calibration trio T02:11:38.120 TIO T02:18:21.390 had max 30K counts. Cart 7, plate 3074A activePlugging=7,3074,A,55137,1,344.3660,20.6769,0,5.0 Could not see stars on GTF. Used twice bigger dec offset 0.02 to find guider stars. We expected to see stars in fibers 1,3,5,7,9,11 but we saw star in fiber 10 instead of fiber 11. Seeing ~1.3-1.5". 02:36 started science exposure. T02:35:58.900 No broken fibers Calibration trio T03:29:42.490 Cart 7 plate 3074B field HD219828. Uses dec offset 0.02 to find guider stars. It was very hard to connect cable to port B. 03:43Z started science exposure. Seeing ~1.5". T03:43:42.590 Fibers 1/2 and 63/64 are broken. Calibration trio T04:37:54.470 Cart 8 plate 3629A, HD9407 Found stars on GTF. 04:54Z science exposure T04:54:18.980 No broken fibers Calibration trio T05:46:36.360 Cart 1 plate 3633A, filed GJ176 activePlugging=1,3633,A,55108,1,70.7320,18.8580,-35,5.0 Found stars on GTF. During CCD readout of last calibration exposure, we got an error. "There is no space for PMT file" "Failed write of PMT history after 8 attempts" We tried to run short test TIO exposure (no lamp, connector on cartridge) - got "DAS failed writing FITS header". We checked usual disk space and it was ok and we did not know what disk has full. Frank helped us. It was nessasary to delete some oldest marvels observations on marvels disk, restarted ufmv marvels software, and reestablish some kind of connections (read Alaina's email). We made short test exposure to check the result, it was ok. T06:40:15.770 - test TIO exposure (no lamps, connected to cartridge, 11 sec exposure time), marked as Junk. It was the first file in MJDD "get image" list for file selection after we cleared error information. 06:50 started science exposure T06:50:36.590 Fibers 93/94 and 115/116 are broken. Calibration trio T07:43:20.140 Cart 9, plate 3635A, field HD43691 activePlugging=9,3635,A,55134,1,94.8940,41.0309,-35,5.0 Found stars on GTF, seeing ~1.7" 08:09Z started science exposure T08:09:47.380 No broken fibers. Calibration trio T09:02:16.880 Cart 9, plate 3635B, HD49674 Found stars ion GTF. activePlugging=9,3635,B,55134,1,102.8770,40.7643,-30,5.0 09:15 science T09:15:32.540 Fibers 9/10, 73/74, 83/84 are broken. Calibration trio T10:08:10.010 Cart 4, plate 3087B, field GL273 We could not find guider stars on GTF, and Applied dec offset 0.001 and saw stars. 10:28Z Started science exposure T10:28:19.850 Fibers 49/50 are broken. Calibration trio T11:21:51.780 Cart 3 plate 3356A, field HD46375 Applied dec and found guider stars. 11:40Z started science seeing ~2" T11:40:20.950 Fibers 93/94 are broken. 12:27Z - 12 deg twi Calibration trio T12:36:03.290 12:50Z endNight is finished 12:40Z closed ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Time Stripe Lambda Last Flavor Comments Start End Begin End Frame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== IMAGING RUN DETAILS ===--- 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): Yes QA Procedures Done (y/n): Yes UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 Reading FITS from /data/MARVELS/55137/et1/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Image Cart Plate Texp Exptype Object - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - T00:45:32.930 0 11. 44798. 5368. TIO NULL T00:47:40.490 0 160. 439. 863. THAR NULL T00:52:17.070 0 11. 44235. 5365. TIO NULL T01:18:24.620 6 3490B 3000. 32. 1059. STAR K7 T02:11:38.120 0 11. 45759. 5362. TIO NULL T02:13:44.640 0 160. 404. 823. THAR NULL T02:18:21.390 0 11. 44954. 5367. TIO NULL T02:35:58.900 7 3074A 3000. 19. 768. STAR 51PEG T03:29:42.490 0 11. 45816. 5337. TIO NULL T03:31:49.980 0 160. 370. 785. THAR NULL T03:36:27.720 0 11. 45221. 5352. TIO NULL T03:43:42.590 7 3074B 3000. 24. 873. STAR HD219828 T04:37:54.470 0 11. 47267. 5344. TIO NULL T04:40:02.050 0 160. 371. 779. THAR NULL T04:44:38.780 0 11. 46371. 5345. TIO NULL T04:54:18.980 8 3629A 3000. 28. 955. STAR HD9407 T05:46:36.360 0 11. 45209. 5346. TIO NULL T05:48:42.770 0 160. 369. 779. THAR NULL T05:53:18.300 0 11. 45807. 5353. TIO NULL T06:40:15.770 0 11. 16. 482. TIO NULL T06:50:36.590 1 3637A 3000. 19. 774. STAR GJ176 T07:43:20.140 0 11. 44487. 5346. TIO NULL T07:45:26.590 0 160. 371. 784. THAR NULL T07:50:03.100 0 11. 44830. 5351. TIO NULL T08:09:47.380 9 3635A 3000. 24. 833. STAR HD43691 T09:02:16.880 0 11. 47361. 5346. TIO NULL T09:04:23.570 0 160. 366. 777. THAR NULL T09:08:59.090 0 11. 46514. 5339. TIO NULL T09:15:32.540 9 3635B 3000. 26. 884. STAR HD49674 T10:08:10.010 0 11. 43857. 5334. TIO NULL T10:10:17.550 0 160. 365. 777. THAR NULL T10:14:55.300 0 11. 47269. 5346. TIO NULL T10:28:19.850 4 3087B 3000. 28. 952. STAR GL273 T11:21:51.780 0 11. 46659. 5339. TIO NULL T11:23:58.170 0 160. 367. 777. THAR NULL T11:28:35.800 0 11. 46663. 5338. TIO NULL T11:40:20.950 3 3356A 3000. 34. 1064. STAR HD46375 T12:36:03.290 0 11. 45794. 5308. TIO NULL T12:38:11.970 0 160. 353. 765. THAR NULL T12:42:46.410 0 11. 45513. 5311. TIO NULL - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:40Z Cart 6,B 235.00 0.0000 59.99 0.0000 77.90 0.0000 1.000120 02:52Z Cart 7,A 24.09 0.0000 76.95 0.0000 201.49 0.0000 1.000090 05:07Z Cart 8,A 173.28 0.0000 53.36 0.0000 -15.74 0.0000 1.000240 08:27Z Cart 9,A 117.14 0.0000 63.17 0.0000 -82.50 0.0000 1.000300 11:46Z Cart 3,A -29.00 0.0000 59.58 0.0000 155.83 0.0000 1.000050 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:40Z Cart 6,B 1.00012 -1185 541 370 235 60.1 9.6 9 13 - 1.5" 02:53Z Cart 7,A 1.00009 -889 776 390 24 77.0 10.7 18 22 -- 1.3" 05:06Z Cart 8,A 1.00024 -2369 -431 360 173 53.3 10.7 20 17 -- 1.5" 08:28Z Cart 9,A 1.00030 -2961 -957 350 117 63.2 10.5 19 30 -- 1.7" 11:46Z Cart 3,A 1.00005 -494 1064 320 -29 59.6 11.6 17 24 -- 2.0" ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 21:28Z 53 18 6 294 (WNW) 259 - 22:00Z 53 21 7 353 (NNW) 258 - 22:32Z 53 10 9 17 (NNE) 156 - 23:04Z 53 12 5 1 (N) 168 - 23:36Z 52 8 6 59 (ENE) 148 - 00:08Z 51 -2 9 9 (N) 122 - 01:20Z 49 1 8 10 (N) 75 - 01:52Z 48 11 10 13 (NNE) 109 - 02:25Z 50 11 14 6 (N) 196 - 02:57Z 50 5 18 20 (NNE) 151 - 03:29Z 49 3 13 25 (NNE) 73 - 04:01Z 51 -3 19 27 (NNE) 31 - 04:33Z 50 -4 18 12 (NNE) 48 - 05:05Z 51 -1 21 22 (NNE) 59 - 05:37Z 49 -1 22 27 (NNE) 90 - 06:10Z 49 5 19 25 (NNE) 101 - 06:42Z 49 6 19 26 (NNE) 89 - 07:14Z 50 5 12 22 (NNE) 103 - 07:46Z 49 6 21 23 (NNE) 115 - 08:18Z 49 10 14 10 (N) 114 - 08:50Z 50 7 15 25 (NNE) 119 - 09:22Z 50 5 16 27 (NNE) 115 - 09:55Z 53 0 16 24 (NNE) 154 - 10:27Z 52 -3 14 27 (NNE) 163 - 10:59Z 52 -1 14 32 (NNE) 107 - 11:31Z 50 2 18 31 (NNE) 107 - 12:03Z 52 -1 12 23 (NNE) 170 - 12:35Z 50 0 2 317 (NW) 144 - 13:07Z 51 4 3 333 (NNW) 80 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 23:38Z - started ventilatotion; doors opened 00:25Z - Opened enclosure 12:40Z - Closed enclosure. Ventilation off Telescope stowed at 30 deg alt with cartridge 3 mounted Counterweights at 250 No interlocks bypassed Spectro autofill system on 13:05Z - Imager dewar: 141 lb; 22 psi Spectro dewar: 287 lb; 25 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_40_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: NOSVN 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: guiderActor - test version 1_0_12 sop - current, we did not do special setup. We cannot check sop actor version using availble us commands. ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.6950 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0330 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3730 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6080 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.: 11.4 Alt.: 29.999997 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6080 18.6150 Axial B 15.6130 15.6120 Axial C 13.8250 13.8170 Trans D -11.7700 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1597677. 1566131. 1588008. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597721. 1566188. 1588095. -7597. -12380. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.95 -3.99 -9.01 10.18 234.68 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---