APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Friday October 9, 2009 (MJD 55114) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Viktor Malanushenko Dmitry Bizyaev Stephanie Snedden (daytime check and support) David Schlegel (BOSS team) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- BOSS/Marvels Science ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Imaging: Run 8082: on-telescope bias Run 8083: stripe 84 S imaged from lambda 130 to lambda 160 (including ramp) Two BOSS test exposures taken. MARVELS plates exposed: 3513 B (c. 9) 3085 A (c. 5) missing fibers 95, 96 3085 B (c. 5) missing fibers 35, 36, 91, 92 3220 A (c. 7) 3220 B (c. 7) missing fibers 1,2 63,64 3626 Marvels preselection Spectro dewar has low weight, please check in the morning. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ----------- Everything was checked, works well. We found the imager dewar with all 3 valves turned off. Collimation checked and adjusted with cart. 12 for the current sp1,2 temperatures: 10.5 and 9.4C, respectively. NOTE that pistons may not go all way to the requested positions with "boss moveColl" command. In our case, they got stuck 00:50Z estimated seeing with DIMM and ensured that we have decent conditions ofr the imaging (clear sky, no Moon, seeing ~ 0.6") Night: ------ 00:50Z after getting info from DIMM we decided to mount the imager and start on-telescope bias within the enclosure, in trilight. Imager mounted. 01:05Z started biases, run 8082 00:30Z started ventilation, opened telescope 01:54Z goto stripe 84 S tcc timeout during the drift, 4 minute lost. No warnings, no errors, just silence. --- 02:05Z started stripe 84 S, run 8083, in focus from fr.18 ltMatch reports good roration angle (~ 0.001), Skippy works sometimes (what is a surprise because a week ago it did not), but it reports NSTARS=2 and unstable resluts. On some frames NSTARS is reasonable and rotator and nu errors are good. 02:10Z start ramp, lambda 130 fr. 20 02:18Z start science, lambda 132, fr. 32 Nothing unusual, but a fat and very slow satellite sat on id1 in the moddle of the run and 04:01Z end of science , lambda 158, fr. 205 04:09Z end of ramp, lambda 160, fr. 218 Seeing was 1.1" in the first part of the run and ~1.5" in the middle. --- 04:15Z the imager is mounted off. Cart 12 - BOSS is installed. We check the collimation with the today fresh David's collimation code. Collimation check in the night, during the reminder of the BOSS time: first collimation run recommended a relatively small change for sp1, and nothing (=0) for sp2. Temperature of spectrohraphs are 7.9 and 7.4 for sp1 and sp2, r, see the collimetion onfo in the "problems" section. Collimation check in the night, during the reminder of the BOSS time: first collimation run recommended a relatively small change for sp1, and nothing (=0) for sp2. Temperature of spectrohraphs are 7.9 and 7.4 for sp1 and sp2, r, see the collimetion onfo in the "problems" section. But the second run, after adjustment, recommended greater amount of pistons move. Looks like it is still non stable. By request of David, while he is on site, we are making a couple of science BOSS exposures. BOSS calibrations gotoField with cart 12. 04:54Z science exposure 10 min 05:06Z science 15 min -- calibration: MARVELS1.2009-10-10T05:22:54.780.fits[0] 11.000000 45045.273438 5424.030762 TIO MARVELS1.2009-10-10T05:25:00.130.fits[0] 160.000000 338.000000 752.004333 THAR MARVELS1.2009-10-10T05:29:34.530.fits[0] 11.000000 46148.363281 5413.161621 TIO -- 05:10Z gotoFiend with cart. 9 plate 3513 B GSOGTF 05:35Z science 50 min, plate 3513B, FIELD1572, T05:34:53.980.fits Clouds during the exposure, seeing flares. Suddenly coming thick clouds confused guider and it drove stars off the field. sop gotoField was issued, but it turned out that it mandatory turns on arc lamps, so exposure was contaminated with bright arc lamps. We had to abort the exposure. 06:09Z science 50 min, plate 3513B, FIELD1572, T06:09:33.190.fits =25.7 Seeing ~ 1.5-2" (from DIMM) -- calibration: MARVELS1.2009-10-10T07:07:02.190.fits[0] 11.000000 45485.910156 5414.395508 TIO MARVELS1.2009-10-10T07:09:07.520.fits[0] 160.000000 336.825012 751.668701 THAR MARVELS1.2009-10-10T07:13:41.970.fits[0] 11.000000 46477.910156 5403.575684 TIO -- -- cart. 5 is mounted. 07:10Z gotoFiend with cart. 5 plate 3085 A one star went to field, position changed +5" in DEC, found more stars 07:25Z science 50 min, plate 3085 A, 51 PEG, T07:25:28.800.fits =23.6 Some clouds in the field -- calibration: MARVELS1.2009-10-10T08:18:03.280.fits[0] 11.000000 46580.816406 5412.622559 TIO MARVELS1.2009-10-10T08:20:08.640.fits[0] 160.000000 336.325012 751.616943 THAR MARVELS1.2009-10-10T08:24:43.140.fits[0] 11.000000 47341.183594 5399.192871 TIO -- 08:23Z gotoFiend with cart. 5 plate 3085 B GSOGTF 08:28Z science 50 min, plate 3085 B, HD219828, T08:28:47.000 .fits =32.1 Denser and denser clouds in the field -- calibration: MARVELS1.2009-10-10T09:22:48.490.fits[0] 11.000000 47281.453125 5404.149414 TIO MARVELS1.2009-10-10T09:24:53.810.fits[0] 160.000000 338.862488 751.680664 THAR MARVELS1.2009-10-10T09:29:28.230.fits[0] 11.000000 48459.000000 5398.057129 TIO -- -- 09:31Z gotoFiend with cart. 7 plate 3220 A GSOGTF 09:34Z science 50 min, plate 3220 A, HD4203, T09:34:55.760 .fits =23.7 Dense clouds, especially at the end of the exposure -- calibration: MARVELS1.2009-10-10T10:26:48.020.fits[0] 11.000000 46134.546875 5392.571289 TIO MARVELS1.2009-10-10T10:28:53.370.fits[0] 160.000000 336.225006 751.355591 THAR MARVELS1.2009-10-10T10:33:26.670.fits[0] 11.000000 47870.726562 5401.495117 TIO -- 10:42Z gotoFiend with cart. 7 plate 3220 B GSOGTF despite very thick clouds, we are getting some signal, so we decided to start the exposure 10:50Z science 50 min, plate 3220 B, HIP14810, T10:50:00.850 .fits =18.0 lot of clouds during the exposure -- calibration: MARVELS1.2009-10-10T11:48:07.170.fits[0] 11.000000 47498.183594 5409.591309 TIO MARVELS1.2009-10-10T11:50:12.440.fits[0] 160.000000 336.656250 751.748779 THAR MARVELS1.2009-10-10T11:54:46.960.fits[0] 11.000000 48631.910156 5398.269043 TIO -- 11:45Z gotoFiend with cart. 11 plate 3626 (Marvels pre-selection) GSOGTF 11:56Z BOSS calibration: 00102288 and 00102289 We don't check collimation because we already passed 18 degrees twilight by ~20 minutes. Once we started the guider with this cartridge, it attempts to adjust the focus by itself. It drove the focus to "0" whereas the best values were around 300. As a result, we got doughnuts and had to turn flags "auto focus" and "auto scale" in "guider" GUI. Surprise that it works. 12:05Z first exposure, 12 sec. 102290, no saturation 12:08Z 12 s 102291 no saturation 12:14Z 20 s 102292 12:15Z 102293 20 s 12:18Z 102294 30 s Actually, the signal even in 30s frames is very far from saturation and very close to the background. Need bigger exposure time? Note that we had some clouds during the exposure, but moderate ones. I cannot analyze images on hub25m with ds9 because it re-reads any loaded image with the current guider frame. LOL. (used sos3 with obvious delay to transfer frames). cart. 12 is mounted 12:35Z enclosure on, stopped ventilation 12:39Z endNight finished ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Time Stripe Lambda Last Flavor Comments Start End Begin End Frame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8081 23:24Z 23:45Z 100 O 78.90 84.14 49 bias 8082 01:05Z 01:23Z 100 O 104.18 108.61 44 bias 8083 02:03Z 04:10Z 84 S 128.06 128.06 227 science ---=== IMAGING RUN DETAILS ===--- ---=== SKIPPY RESULTS ===--- Run Frame nFrames stars muErr muRms nuErr nuRms rot az el --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8083 23 4 99 -1.400 0.152 3.900 0.149 -0.00069 164 53 ---=== LTMATCH RESULTS ===--- Run Field nFields alt az nGood rowMean rowSig colMean colSig rot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8083 33 1 53 16 50 -1.652 0.181 1.531 0.289 -0.00515 8083 33 1 53 16 52 -1.292 0.131 1.536 0.256 -0.00517 8083 33 1 53 16 59 -0.912 0.102 1.579 0.285 -0.00531 8083 33 1 53 16 47 -0.621 0.139 1.714 0.270 -0.00576 8083 33 1 53 16 38 -0.331 0.151 1.650 0.249 -0.00555 8083 51 1 52 16 44 -1.208 0.138 1.568 0.207 -0.00527 8083 51 1 52 16 51 -0.881 0.104 1.711 0.114 -0.00575 8083 51 1 52 16 48 -0.531 0.143 1.752 0.154 -0.00589 8083 51 1 52 16 52 -0.230 0.139 1.815 0.154 -0.00610 8083 51 1 52 16 53 0.010 0.107 1.693 0.121 -0.00569 8083 208 1 51 15 14 -0.720 0.390 1.137 0.307 -0.00382 8083 208 1 51 15 14 -0.336 0.317 1.281 0.216 -0.00431 8083 208 1 51 15 27 -0.084 0.359 1.220 0.313 -0.00410 8083 208 1 51 15 18 -0.004 0.307 1.124 0.381 -0.00378 8083 208 1 51 15 18 0.517 0.449 1.473 0.601 -0.00495 ---=== 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:21Z imager 15.83 0.0000 52.67 0.0000 106.79 0.0000 1.000000 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:21Z unknown 1.00000 0 15 107 16 52.7 7.4 6 267 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 21:34Z 49 17 13 347 (NNW) 1044 - 22:06Z 49 18 12 311 (NW) 1008 - 22:38Z 50 17 12 298 (WNW) 956 - clear 23:10Z 49 18 11 299 (WNW) 941 - '' 23:42Z 46 16 7 318 (NW) 879 - '' 00:11Z 46 17 6 288 (WNW) 875 - '' 00:43Z 44 16 8 288 (WNW) 887 - '' 01:15Z 45 15 6 281 (W) 940 - '' 01:47Z 45 14 6 271 (W) 891 - '' 02:19Z 45 15 6 265 (W) 987 - '' 02:51Z 44 15 6 262 (W) 1010 - '' 03:23Z 44 15 8 223 (SW) 945 - '' 03:56Z 44 16 7 233 (SW) 1099 - '' 04:28Z 44 18 10 216 (SW) 1260 - '' 05:00Z 44 18 8 227 (SW) 1448 - clouds 05:32Z 45 17 7 247 (WSW) 1373 - '' 06:04Z 45 16 7 212 (SSW) 1373 - '' 06:36Z 43 17 7 191 (S) 1902 - '' 07:08Z 42 16 7 185 (S) 1596 - '' 07:41Z 42 15 8 186 (S) 1462 - '' 08:13Z 42 15 5 184 (S) 1409 - '' 08:45Z 44 15 5 178 (S) 1491 - '' 09:17Z 43 15 7 194 (SSW) 1379 - '' 09:49Z 44 14 7 197 (SSW) 1243 - '' 10:21Z 43 15 7 184 (S) 1271 - '' 10:53Z 41 16 5 138 (SE) 1435 - '' 11:26Z 42 16 5 158 (SSE) 1527 - '' 11:58Z 43 15 8 182 (S) 1379 - '' 12:30Z 43 15 8 187 (S) 1246 - '' ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 00:30Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. Enclosure off. 12:35Z - Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 12:41Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 12 Counterweights at: 245 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 71 lbs, 21 psi Imager 169 lbs, 19 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: ERROR ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.6950 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0330 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3750 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6030 11.6170 Lateral E 10.3632 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.: 8.4 Alt.: 30.000860 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6090 18.6150 Axial B 15.6140 15.6120 Axial C 13.8270 13.8170 Trans D -11.7770 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1597621. 1566106. 1588077. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597721. 1566188. 1588095. -7597. -12380. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.95 -4.02 -8.99 10.20 234.71 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- --- A warning when LogTool is starts: logTool 2009-10-09 23:52:07Z: Failed to execute command on observer@plate-mapper.apo.nmsu.edu; ssh error was ERROR: No flavor flavour - use -f or set EUPS_FLAVOR scanversion: Command not found. .logtool.logviewer3 ----- Lot of complains about PLC version mismatch in the watcher, as usual. --- Collimation with cart. 12: 1st run: ---- IDL> collimate, 102271 % Compiled module: COLLIMATE. ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b1 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 2.95 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 82.7 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b2 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -1.45 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -40.6 degrees for ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b2 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -1.45 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -40.6 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r1 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 2.70 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 19406 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp1 a=19406 b=19406 c=19406" COLLIMATE: Current motorPosition = 4542 4021 4031 COLLIMATE: New motorPosition = 23948 23427 23437 ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r2 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -2.15 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of -15453 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp2 a=-15453 b=-15453 c=-15453" COLLIMATE: Current motorPosition = 27500 27498 27500 COLLIMATE: New motorPosition = 12047 12045 12047 2nd run: --------- COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp1 a=-1796 b=-1796 c=-1796" COLLIMATE: Current motorPosition = 23943 23427 23432 COLLIMATE: New motorPosition = 22147 21631 21636 ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r2 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.15 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 1078 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp2 a=1078 b=1078 c=1078" COLLIMATE: Current motorPosition = 12047 12042 12047 COLLIMATE: New motorPosition = 13125 13120 13125 We did not adjust the blue rings. --- === Collimation check in the night, during the reminder of the BOSS time: first collimation run recommended a relatively small change for sp1, and nothing (=0) for sp2. Temperature of spectrohraphs are 7.9 and 7.4 for sp1 and sp2, r, see the collimetion onfo in the "problems" section. IDL> collimate, 102277 ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b1 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 1.20 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 33.6 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b2 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.50 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 14.0 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r1 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.55 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of -3953 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Command: "boss moveColl spec=sp1 a=-3953 b=-3953 c=-3953" COLLIMATE: Current motorPosition = 22158 21630 21636 COLLIMATE: New motorPosition = 18205 17677 17683 ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r2 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.00 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 0 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Command: "boss moveColl spec=sp2 a=0 b=0 c=0" COLLIMATE: Current motorPosition = 13123 13108 13125 COLLIMATE: New motorPosition = 13123 13108 13125 % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating illegal operand IDL> collimate, 102280 ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b1 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 1.55 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 43.4 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b2 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.55 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 15.4 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r1 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.70 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of -5031 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Command: "boss moveColl spec=sp1 a=-5031 b=-5031 c=-5031" COLLIMATE: Current motorPosition = 18203 17675 17683 COLLIMATE: New motorPosition = 13172 12644 12652 ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r2 COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.35 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.20 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 2515 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Command: "boss moveColl spec=sp2 a=2515 b=2515 c=2515" COLLIMATE: Current motorPosition = 13123 13108 13125 COLLIMATE: New motorPosition = 15638 15623 15640