APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Wednesday May 26, 2010 (MJD 55343) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Kaike Pan Steph Snedden Software team Paul Harding (CWRU) Craig Loomis (PU) Russell Owen (UW) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Flex engineering and/or Marvels science ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- First half was given to Craig, Russell, Paul for SOP and guider work. We were able to go on-sky for their work for a little less than an hour. Nearby thunderstorms, then humidity were problems until 08:45Z. We then opened to complete two MARVELS plates: plate 3899B - Field K5 No spectra in fibers 31,32 - bundle Green 15, red fiber / yellow tape plate 3895B - Field K15 ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- Craig, Russell and Paul were trading STUI messages back and forth when we came in, and working on STUI's SOP and the guider. Afternoon checkout was without problems. XMID and WAVEMID adjusted. Disk space: [observer@hub25m ~]$ df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 48G 33G 13G 73% / /dev/md1 145M 18M 120M 13% /boot /dev/sdc1 92G 84G 7.8G 92% /home /dev/sdc2 2.6T 1.6T 1.1T 60% /data tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm 11:17 sdsshost2.apo.nmsu.edu % df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 142G 131G 4.2G 97% / /dev/sda1 99M 30M 64M 33% /boot /dev/sdb1 917G 840G 32G 97% /data sdssfiles1p:/data1/data 1.8T 129G 1.7T 8% /files 01:14Z - ThAr lamp on. Night: ----- Nearby thunderstorms and clouds kept us closed until after sunset. Paul continued to work on the guider actor (ticket 832), Craig and Russell on STUI SOP. Russell filed some tickets, and made progress toward development of SOP GUI. Tickets 855 - 858 were filed. 03:30Z - Opened enclosure. It took three tries to clear the telescope's azimuth brake. Once open, the humidity started climbing, and we were on borrowed time. We gave the telescope to Russell and Craig for STUI SOP GUI work, and to Paul for guider work. 04:30Z - Humidity over the limit. Closed. 06:55Z - Started enclosure ventilation as humidity started to drop 07:30Z - Enclosure ventilation off. Humidity back up. 08:45Z - Ventilation on, enclosure opened. Humidity dropped like the proverbial rock. 08:54Z - Cartridge 4, plate 3899B - MARVELS field K5 ---------------------------------------------------- GSOGTF Seeing 1.3", Alt 71 deg N File Type 0 T08:37:44.080.fits TIO 42788.816 4991.2935 1 T08:39:48.410.fits THAR 230.21875 659.83582 2 T08:44:23.970.fits TIO 43508.453 4999.7769 3 T08:57:44.530.fits TIO 22.636364 480.61023 The above TIO (T08:57:44.530.fits) was started accidentally, and aborted. Do not use. 4 T09:03:17.620.fits STAR 52.549999 1387.3734 Fibers 31,32 spectra missing 10:05Z - Cartridge 5, plate 3895B - MARVELS field K15 ----------------------------------------------------- GSOGTF Seeing 1.4, Alt 76 deg N File Type 5 T09:55:35.540.fits TIO 42567.547 4985.2983 6 T09:57:43.090.fits THAR 230.80624 660.02264 7 T10:02:18.670.fits TIO 42258.000 4987.8525 8 T10:06:38.950.fits STAR 49.870667 1273.6283 9 T10:58:32.640.fits TIO 43125.090 4926.6621 10 T11:00:38.020.fits THAR 226.49374 657.35406 11 T11:05:13.740.fits TIO 42686.910 4922.5249 endNight finished. ---=== 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== 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 00:00Z 65 41 7 194 (SSW) 1049 - mostly cloudy 00:33Z 65 41 14 204 (SSW) 1057 - ' 01:05Z 61 48 10 114 (ESE) 1062 - ' 01:37Z 58 47 17 121 (ESE) 1203 - ' 02:09Z 58 46 13 129 (SE) 1254 - ' 02:41Z 56 47 15 123 (ESE) 1262 - partly cloudy 03:13Z 56 46 6 121 (ESE) 1263 - ' 03:45Z 53 46 8 115 (ESE) 1377 - ' 04:18Z 51 48 13 73 (ENE) 1397 - mostly cloudy 04:50Z 51 49 10 74 (ENE) 1376 - ' 05:22Z 52 49 11 87 (E) 1255 - ' 05:54Z 52 48 13 106 (ESE) 1254 - partly cloudy 06:26Z 51 48 12 110 (ESE) 1176 - ' 06:58Z 53 45 16 116 (ESE) 1092 - ' 07:30Z 50 47 13 81 (E) 1017 - ' 08:03Z 50 45 14 111 (ESE) 1052 - ' 08:35Z 55 39 16 141 (SE) 1023 - ' 09:07Z 54 41 18 129 (SE) 1019 - ' 09:39Z 54 41 17 136 (SE) 1000 - mostly clear 10:11Z 53 42 20 135 (SE) 1086 - ' 10:43Z 54 42 14 158 (SSE) 1080 - ' 11:15Z 54 41 17 172 (S) 1084 - partly cloudy ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 01:00Z - started telescope ventilation 03:30Z - Opned enclosure 04:30Z - Closed enclosure 06:55Z - started ventilation 07:30Z - stopped ventilatio 08:54Z - started ventilation and opened enclosure Telescope stowed at 30 deg alt Spectro autofill enabled Cartridge 11 mounted Counterweights at 240 No interlocks bypassed 11:32Z - Spectro dewar: 139 lb; 19 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- -----STUI software----- STUI ------- 0.5.3 2010-05-06 alerts ------ v1_0_3 apo -------- trunk+svn111276M boss -------- trunk+svn111177 boss.daq -- 1.2.14 boss.specMech-- 3.0.1 gcamera --- v1_0_6 guider -------branch_v1_0_20b+svn111658M hub ---------- Tag: sdss3_v1_1_3 mcp --------- v6_6_5 mcp.plc ------ 24 platedb ----- v1_0_4 sop ----------- trunk+svn111657 sos ------------v1_0_2 tcc -------------TCC 2.11.0 2009-06-24 -----Other software----- idlspec2d (sos3) --- v5_4_9c plate-mapper3 ------ NOCVS:v5_0_7 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.6960 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0240 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3730 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6060 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.: 15.2 Alt.: 29.999997 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6040 18.6150 Axial B 15.6470 15.6120 Axial C 13.8310 13.8170 Trans D -11.7810 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1600317. 1564550. 1585791. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597721. 1566188. 1588095. -7597. -12380. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.64 -3.29 -10.46 9.23 234.22 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---