Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 05:56:06 -0600
From: "s. a. snedden"
Subject: 2.5m obslog 20000621 (MJD 51717)
Wednesday June 21 2000
                 Apache Point Observatory SDSS 2.5m
                            Observing Log
                             (MJD 51717)
OBSERVING TEAM:
===============
Jeffrey Hayes (APO)
Ellyne Kinney (APO)
Bryan Laubscher (LANL)
Josh Wilson (NMSU)
Stephanie Snedden (APO)
Emily Spahn PT (JHU)
Christina Williams PT (JHU)
Russell Owen (by phone)
VISITORS:
=========
Elizabeth Hayes (MD)
Peregrine McGee (LANL)
THE PLAN:
=========
Shakedown stuff.  Hartmann tests if the weather lets up.
SYNOPSIS FOR NIGHT:
===================
The weather allowed us to open for about a grand total of 2 hours. We
started to set up for Hartmannn tests, but did not get to the tests
themselves.
TELESCOPE STATUS:
=================
In stow, at 30 deg, with engineering camera on the telescope. No conical
baffle or second corrector.
DIMM:
-----
INTERLOCKS:
===========
none bypassed
SOFTWARE USED:
==============
IOP/SOP: v3_17_0
Watcher: v2_8_2
MCP: v4_3_1
TPM: v1_0_8
AstroDa: 14_29
TCC: 2.3.0
WEATHER SYNOPSIS (see below for hourly data):
=============================================
Mostly cloudy by 20:00.
GENERAL COMMENTS (see Problems below for details):
==================================================
Before dark:
The telescope was fiducialised at 19:00 in the hope we could open.
Hayes
and Wilson were the parties for this section of the activities.
Kinney is asymptotically nearing the completion of the Documentation
deliverable.  It will be under CVS with a few days.
Jon B. took many spectro biases (86 of them) during the day and only saw
two instances of wrong num of pix errors.
After dark:
It was cloudy until about midnight. We were open by about 00:30 and went
to a second mag star (alpha Oph) to set up for Hartmann tests. When we
tried a gcam doread we got an error message from the TCC. We wasted some
time tracking it down (see problems section), then determined offsets to
center the star (az offset=-.025 deg, alt offset=-.013 deg). All this
time, the humidity was climbing and at about 02:00 we were forced to
close again. Rather frustrating.
After closing we took some more spectro biases and one second exposures
with spectro 2 door open, looking once again for wrong num of pix
problems. Out of 28 exposures we had one instance (one row) of wrong num
of pix. Although this problem occurs much less frequently than during
the last dark run, it is still with us.
DATA ACQUISITION (see IOP/SOP output below):
===========================================
IMAGING:
--------
Run     Type
---     ----
None
SPECTROSCOPY:
-------------
Exposure     Type
--------     ----
4462        bias  looking for wrong num of pix errors
  .          .
  .          .
  .          .
4548        bias
4549        1 s exposures looking for wrong num of pix
  .          .
  .          .
  .          .
4577        1 s exposure
MIRRORS:
========
PRIMARY:
--------
MIGS                   SHOULD BE
Axial A=                 1.9284
Axial B=                 0.5594
Axial C=                 0.5579
Transverse D=            0.3744
Lateral E=               1.9065
Lateral F=               0.4074
GALILS
Commanded:
Actual:
SETMIR VALUES
primDesOrient:
primOrient:
SECONDARY:
----------
Focus:
Temp:
Altitude:
MIGS
Axial A=
Axial B=
Axial C=
Transverse D=
GALILS
Commanded:
Actual:
SETMIR VALUES
secDesOrient:
secOrient:
FOCUS LOG:
==========
            M1 Piston     M2 Piston            Temp    Wind
Time  Inst   setmir    TCC  setmir   Az  Alt    C    Dir MPH  filt  FWHM
"
LN2 SCHEDULE:
=============
Filled spectrographs at 16:30. Topped off at 00:30 and 06:00.
Imager dewar was not changed.
PROBLEMS:
=========
Guider Mac:
-----------
On our first gcam exposure we got the following error message:
0 0 I GCamCmd="doread       1.00     2     2      192.0
128.0        0.0
     0.0"
0 0 I GCamReply='could not open file: guider images:gimg0519.fits;
error: No Err
or'
At first we thought this was a permissions problem, but after consulting
with Russell, we rebooted the guider Mac, and then were able to
successfully write the image files.
WEATHER DATA:
=============
                               Wind
Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH   Direction    Dust   DIMM   Sky   Precip.
16:01    69    42      9   228  (SW)     230     -     pcl     none
17:01    66    38      4   242  (WSW)    215     -     pcl     none
18:01    70    42     11   210  (SSW)    175     -     pcl     none
19:01    67    39      9   125  (SE)     223     -     pcl     none
20:01    56    44     13    78  (ENE)    411     -     pcl     none
21:01    56    42      7    82  (E)      338     -     mcl     none
22:01    57    43     11    76  (ENE)    396     -     mcl     none
23:01    57    43      8   105  (ESE)    380    1.8    pcl     none
00:01    58    40      5   182  (S)      276    2.1    pcl     none
01:01    55    43     19   204  (SSW)    346    1.2    pcl     none
02:01    53    48     11   177  (S)     2347    1.1    pcl     none
03:01    50    47      1   175  (S)     2081    1.5    pcl     none
04:01    55    46      2   186  (S)     1420    1.7    mclear  none
05:01    54    46      1   165  (SSE)    582     -     mclear  none
[pmt]cl = partly, mostly, totally cloudy
DATA LOGS FROM IOP/SOP:
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