APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday May 13, 2010 (MJD 55330) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Howard Brewington Steph Snedden Dan Long (supoprt) Jon Brinkmann (support) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- A mostly clear night with variable seeing. Rising humidity and dust at the end of the night. Please check the mirror surfaces. No rotator aborts, Dan. Cartridge 17 slithead spring squeak was back to normal. BOSS observed plates: Cartridge Plate Done? 10 3978 DONE 11 4036 DONE 14 4025 Not done 12 3952 DONE 17 3928 Not done ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- No problems noted at afternoon checkout with the exception that Howard and Dan re-adjusted the sensors to the light curtain, because the scissor lift failed to move again. It doesn't take much to get it misaligned. STUI actor health checked. hub25m disk space: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 48G 33G 13G 72% / /dev/md1 145M 18M 120M 13% /boot /dev/sdc1 92G 90G 1.7G 99% /home /dev/sdc2 2.6T 2.2T 419G 85% /data tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm Full spectro collimation done on cartridge 10 with telescope at zenith. 00:45Z Enclosure ventilation started 02:00Z Opened enclosure Night: ----- During twilight, we did a second full collimate routine at the field, and were in focus. The quick Hartmann should be good, and it was. Cartridge 10, plate 3978 ======================== 03:10Z - GSOGTF Seeing started off poor (1.5 asec FWHM, then improved to 1.2 asec FWHM ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55330 3.3 10.1 3.4 7.0 900.8 23.8 3978-55330-01 55330 5.5 12.6 5.4 8.9 900.8 32.4 3978-55330-01 55330 4.7 13.1 6.0 8.9 900.8 32.7 3978-55330-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 13.5 35.8 14.8 24.8 2702.4 --> 88.9 ------------------------------------------------------------ This plate was declared DONE Cartridge 11, plate 4036 ========================= 04:20Z - GSOGTF Seeing 1.2 - 1.5 asec FWHM ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55330 2.9 7.8 2.9 4.9 900.8 18.5 4036-55328-01 55330 2.7 7.1 2.6 5.0 900.8 17.4 4036-55328-01 55330 2.8 7.8 2.7 5.0 900.8 18.3 4036-55328-01 55330 2.9 8.0 2.7 5.0 900.8 18.6 4036-55328-01 55330 2.3 6.7 2.2 3.9 900.8 15.1 4036-55328-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 13.6 37.4 13.1 23.8 4504.0 --> 87.9 ------------------------------------------------------------ This plate was declared DONE We accidentally hit gotoInstChange during the post-cal arc, so exposure 115295 should not be used, and was declared BAD. We went back to the field and took another arc (115296) for insurance, but hopefully only the pre-cal will be needed. Ten minutes lost to the problem. Cartridge 14, plate 4025 ======================== 06:09Z - GSOGTF ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55330 2.4 5.1 2.1 4.9 900.8 14.5 4025-55330-01 55330 1.8 4.0 1.4 3.5 900.8 10.7 4025-55330-01 Seeing degrading to about 2 asec FWHM 55330 1.3 2.9 0.9 2.7 900.8 7.8 4025-55330-01 Clouds forming 55330 0.8 1.5 0.5 1.4 900.8 4.2 4025-55330-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 6.3 13.5 4.9 12.5 3603.2 --> 37.2 ------------------------------------------------------------ This plate is not yet done. Cartridge 12, plate 3952 ======================== 07:35Z - GSOGTF Seeing 1.6 - 2.0 asec FWHM Lightning over Roswell lit up the NE sky. ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55330 2.7 5.1 1.8 4.6 900.8 14.2 3952-55330-01 55330 2.9 5.6 2.0 4.8 900.8 15.3 3952-55330-01 55330 2.7 5.3 1.8 4.5 900.8 14.3 3952-55330-01 55330 2.3 4.8 1.5 4.2 900.8 12.8 3952-55330-01 55330 2.5 5.5 1.6 4.6 900.8 14.2 3952-55330-01 55330 2.9 6.2 1.9 5.0 900.8 16.0 3952-55330-01 55330 2.6 5.9 1.7 4.6 900.8 14.8 3952-55330-01 55330 2.3 4.9 1.5 4.3 900.8 13.0 3952-55330-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 20.9 43.3 13.8 36.6 7206.4 --> 114.6 ------------------------------------------------------------ The plate was declared DONE Cartridge 17, plate 3928 ======================== 10:09Z - GSOGTF Dust and humidity made us close after one exposure in poor seeing (2.0 asec FWHM) ------------------------------------------------------------ MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55328 2.8 8.5 2.6 5.2 900.8 19.1 3928-55328-01 55328 2.4 7.6 2.2 4.6 900.8 16.8 3928-55328-01 55329 2.2 3.4 2.3 3.4 900.8 11.3 3928-55328-01 55329 1.7 3.2 1.7 2.8 900.8 9.4 3928-55328-01 55329 1.6 2.8 1.6 2.6 900.8 8.6 3928-55328-01 55329 1.1 2.3 1.2 2.2 900.8 6.8 3928-55328-01 55330 0.7 4.0 0.7 3.3 900.8 8.7 3928-55328-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 12.5 31.8 12.3 24.1 6305.6 --> 80.7 ------------------------------------------------------------ Still not done, unfortunately. 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 ===--- Cart 10 CurrArcOff = -0.000676, 0.000000, 4780524627.33000, -0.000856, 0.000000, 4780524627.33000 Cart 11 CurrArcOff = -0.002027, 0.000000, 4780528935.92000, 0.001700, 0.000000, 4780528935.92000 Cart 14 - CurrArcOff = -0.001779, 0.000000, 4780536196.91000, 0.001300, 0.000000, 4780536196.91000 Cart 12 - CurrArcOff = -0.000188, 0.000000, 4780540101.09000, 0.001416, 0.000000, 4780540101.09000 Cart 17 - CurrArcOff = -0.001183, 0.000000, 4780549053.16000, 0.001211, 0.000000, 4780549053.16000 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 03:27Z cart 10 1.00001 -99 1616 572 114 73.6 9.8 14 148 04:41Z cart 11 1.00023 -2270 -363 356 24 57.0 8.7 13 116 07:47Z cart 12 1.00017 -1678 10 283 -52 81.5 8.5 14 123 10:16Z cart 17 1.00020 -1974 -138 335 277 56.2 7.5 17 111 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 22:52Z 56 10 19 213 (SSW) 1195 - Clear 23:52Z 58 11 16 245 (WSW) 1087 - ' 00:24Z 57 12 17 246 (WSW) 1128 - ' 00:56Z 55 12 18 215 (SW) 1213 - ' 01:28Z 53 12 8 214 (SW) 1234 - ' 02:00Z 49 12 2 226 (SW) 1259 - ' 02:32Z 50 11 6 180 (S) 1311 - ' 03:03Z 49 11 10 181 (S) 1343 - ' 03:34Z 49 15 14 148 (SSE) 1310 - ' 04:05Z 49 17 14 139 (SE) 1295 - ' 04:37Z 47 19 16 120 (ESE) 1492 - ' 05:09Z 47 19 17 120 (ESE) 1408 - ' 05:41Z 46 20 16 118 (ESE) 1447 - ' 06:13Z 45 20 15 115 (ESE) 1592 - ' 06:46Z 44 22 12 88 (E) 1656 - ' 07:18Z 43 23 14 109 (ESE) 1576 - partly cloudy 07:50Z 46 26 18 127 (SE) 1931 - clear 08:20Z 46 30 18 125 (SE) 2323 - ' 08:54Z 46 33 18 122 (ESE) 2571 - ' 09:26Z 46 33 18 135 (SE) 2598 - ' 09:58Z 46 36 16 129 (SE) 2956 - ' 10:31Z 44 39 21 113 (ESE) 2840 - ' ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 00:45Z Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 02:00Z Enclosure off. 10:36Z Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 10:57Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 17 Counterweights at: 240 units LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 163 lbs, 22 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- David's python script failed today in the following way: [observer@hub25m ~]$ archiveFetch.py --versions -n 1 -v 0 -t NONE -f MSG --key-delimiter="" No dictionary found for actor: sop It worked yesterday. apo i version="trunk+svn111276 boss i version="trunk+svn111177" boss i daqVersion=1.2.14 boss i specMechVersion=3.0.1,3.0.1 gcamera i version="v1_0_6" hub i version="Tag: sdss3_v1_1_3" TCC 2.11.0 2009-06-24 MCP: v6_6_5 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.6980 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0310 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3760 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6020 11.6170 Lateral E 10.3886 10.3505 Lateral F 11.9507 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.: 12.8 Alt.: 30.012500 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6080 18.6150 Axial B 15.6450 15.6120 Axial C 13.8270 13.8170 Trans D -11.7770 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1597646. 1566074. 1588077. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597721. 1566188. 1588095. -7597. -12380. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.94 -4.03 -9.01 10.18 234.71 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---