Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:51:08 -0500 (EST)
From: jegunn
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20040226 (MJD 53062)
Good work, guys.
--jim
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Howard Brewington wrote:
>
>                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
>
>                                  OBSERVING LOG
>                            Thursday February 26, 2004
>
>                                   (MJD 53062)
>
> ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===---
>
> Swing:   Dan Long
>
> Night:   Mike Harvanek
>          Howard Brewington
>          John Barentine
>          French (on site)
>
>
> ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===---
>
>         Science!
>
>
> ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===---
>
> The following plates were declared done: 1746, 1605, 1445, 1365, 1372, and
> 1461.
>
> We lost about 45 minutes with cartridge 09; see log for details.
>
> And, we spent about an hour with cartridge 06 doing starPattern,
> computeFiberAngles, and so on.
>
>
> ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===---
>
>
> Afternoon:
> ----------
>
> Normal afternoon check, except that full collimation for sp1 was required due
> to work during the day.
>
> During the day the sp1 collimator was disassembled inspected and several parts
> tightened (likely fixing a long standing problem), so a full collimation
> checkout was needed.  See problem section for details of collimation.
>
> This error popped up when logTool was started.  The logTool window still came
> up, but it didn't collect any of the usual data.  Quitting logTool and
> restarting worked.  See problems section for traceback.
>
> expected unsigned time but got "-2077921270"
>
>
> Night:
> ------
>
> We had clouds and moon at twilight, so spectro was our choice.
>
> Just before opening, we helped French make some final adjustments to the
> slitheads of cartridge 06.  If we get a chance to observe with this cartridge,
> we will need to do a starPattern, computeFiberAngles, and so on because the
> guide fibers were recently replaced.
>
> 01:47Z Cart 04, Plate 1636 (photoz79).  Field found with Fk5 and some fishing.
> We completed two exposures on this plate but, unfortunately, captured no usable
> singal because of the moon and thin clouds.
>
> 03:00Z Cart 05, Plate 1154 was scheduled for this timeframe, but we chose to
> skip it because this plate was an fstar-type.  Consequently, there's not way
> to finish it before the end of the darkrun.  So, we moved on to Cart 07.
>
> 03:10Z Cart 07, Plate 1746 (chunk90).  Guide stars on goToField, but clouds
> quickly became a problem in that part of the sky.  After about fifty minutes,
> however, the clouds cleared enough for us to get setup to do this plate. This
> plate was declared done after three exposures
>
> 05:50Z Cart 08, Plate 1605 (chunk77).  Guide stars on goToField. This is the
> plate from last night, which we completed three exposures.  However, we could
> not determine if the second and third exposures were good.  We did two
> more exposures tonight.  We were able to declare this plate done by adding
> tonight's S/N^2 to last night's.
>
> 06:55Z Cart 03, Plate 1445 (chunk77).  An Fk5 star was used to locate the
> field.  Plate declared done in three exposures.
>
> 08:12Z Cart 01, Plate 1365 (chunk68).  An Fk5 star was used to locate the
> field.  Plate declared done in three exposures.
>
> 10:02Z Cart 09, Plate 1372 (chunk68). Guide stars on goToField.  We lost about
> 45 minutes with this cartridge.  The trunions were left in the CG position
> after the fiber bundle was re-glued.  Consequently, we could not place the
> cartridge on the L-cart because we reached the arm's lower limit first.  And,
> this cartridge was also placed in the cartridge bay backwards after the re-glue
> repair.  Plate declared done in three exposures.
>
> 11:00Z Cart 02 Plate 1461 (chunk68). Guide stars on goToFild.  We declared
> this plate done after one exposure when we added tonight's SN^2 to a previous
> night's.
>
> 11:49Z Cart 06, Plate 1379 (chunk69). The guide fibers were recently replaced
> in the cartridge.  Guide stars on goToField.  We did not capture any signal on
> this plate; however, we spent our time trying to center the guide stars using
> offset adjustments. Next, we did the starPattern and computeFiberAngle
> commands.  We issued these commands four times and the following output was
> the result.
>
> Old Cartridge Info Entry
> GPROBE 6  1 T 167 444 24.5  622.2
> GPROBE 6  2 T 168 299 24.5  565.2
> GPROBE 6  3 T 173 153 24.5  317.9
> GPROBE 6  4 T 278 445 24.5  401.5
> GPROBE 6  5 T 281 301 24.5  248.0
> GPROBE 6  6 T 284 153 24.5  359.5
> GPROBE 6  7 T 391 448 24.5  335.2
> GPROBE 6  8 T 393 302 24.5  315.6
> GPROBE 6  9 T 396 156 24.5  299.0
> GPROBE 6 10 T 544 222 40.8  303.1
> GPROBE 6 11 F 695 431 40.8 -720.0
> This Angle has large deviations: 315.0
>
> Afterwards, the guider seemed to work properly as well as fiber 10.
>
>
> endNight finished and was happy.
>
> See problems section for misc Watcher errors.
>
>
> ---=== 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): y
> QA Procedures Done (y/n): y
>
>   UT    Exp   Time  flavor     comment       (S/N)^2 totals
> ========================================== b1   r1   b2   r2
>
>  23:54 25337 2.0    arc
>  00:02 25338 2.1    arc
>  00:05 25339 2.1    arc
>  ----- sequence 25340, plate -9999 -------
>  00:31 25340 0.0    bias
>  00:37 25341 0.0    bias
>  02:03 25342 10.0   flat
>  02:06 25343 2.0    arc
>  02:33 25344 1200.1 target
>  03:01 25345 1500.1 target
>  ----- sequence 25346, plate 1746 -------
>  04:11 25346 10.0   flat
>  04:14 25347 2.0    arc
>  04:38 25348 1200.1 target
>  05:06 25349 1500.1 target
>  05:35 25350 1500.1 target
>  05:38 25351 10.0   flat
>  05:41 25352 2.0    arc
>  ----- sequence 25353, plate 1605 -------
>  06:02 25353 10.0   flat
>  06:05 25354 2.0    arc
>  06:32 25355 1200.1 target
>  06:50 25356 900.1  target
>  ----- sequence 25357, plate 1445 -------
>  07:11 25357 10.0   flat
>  07:14 25358 2.0    arc
>  07:33 25359 900.1  target
>  07:48 25360 720.1  target
>  08:03 25361 720.1  target
>  ----- sequence 25362, plate 1365 -------
>  08:17 25362 10.0   flat
>  08:20 25363 2.0    arc
>  08:43 25364 900.1  target
>  09:01 25365 900.1  target
>  09:19 25366 900.1  target
>  09:22 25367 10.0   flat
>  09:25 25368 2.0    arc
>  ----- sequence 25369, plate 1372 -------
>  10:06 25369 10.0   flat
>  10:08 25370 2.0    arc
>
>  10:30 25371 900.1  target
>  10:45 25372 720.1  target
>  11:00 25373 720.1  target
>  ----- sequence 25374, plate 1461 -------
>  11:12 25374 10.0   flat
>  11:14 25375 2.0    arc
>  11:39 25376 1200.1 target
> ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===---
>
> Time Instrument     Az              Alt             Rot         Scale
>                   pos   offset    pos   offset    pos   offset
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 02:32Z  4    0   -38.15  0.0055   44.19  0.0027  148.48  0.0049  1.000190
> 04:19Z  7  1746   71.12  0.0055   48.57  0.0027  234.67  0.0049  1.000320
> 07:37Z  3  1445  140.35 -0.0022   77.24  0.0033  -46.36 -0.0005  1.000190
> 08:30Z  1  1365  206.28 -0.0046   77.23  0.0063   31.10 -0.0005  1.000130
> 10:17Z  9  1372  220.74 -0.0046   72.94  0.0063   50.56 -0.0005  1.000220
> 11:18Z  2  1461  222.98  0.0010   68.80  0.0059   56.54  0.0053  1.000180
>
> ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===---
>
> ---=== DATA TAPE SUMMARY ===---
>
>
>         Goes:  JL 7286
>         Stays: JL 7287
>
>
>
> ---=== FOCUS LOG ===---
>
>                       setmir piston                  Temp   Wind
> Time     Inst    scale    M1    M2   Foc   Az   Alt   (C) MPH  Dir  filt  fwhm
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 00:42Z  unknown  1.00000     0  1257     0  121  30.0   3.4  12  178
> 02:31Z  4  1636  1.00019 -1876  -178   175  -38  44.3   3.7  15  185  gdr 2.0
> 04:18Z  7  1746  1.00032 -3159 -1329   100   71  48.5   3.1  17  190  gdr 1.7
> 07:37Z  3  1445  1.00019 -1875  -382    50  140  77.2   4.3  15  210  gdr 1.3
> 08:29Z  1  1365  1.00013 -1284    83    25  206  77.3   2.7  13  182  gdr 1.9
> 10:16Z  9  1372  1.00022 -2171  -522   150  221  73.0   2.4  15  194  gdr 1.8
> 11:17Z  2  1461  1.00018 -1776  -188   150  223  68.9   2.3  15  202  gdr 1.4
>
> ---=== WEATHER LOG ===---
>
>                              Wind
>       Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH   Direction    Dust  DIMM   Sky
>      23:49Z    40    14     16   208  (SSW)  -9999     -    Mostly Clear
>      00:20Z    39    17     10   195  (SSW)  -9999     -    Mostly Clear
>      00:50Z    38    11     11   192  (SSW)  -9999     -    Mostly Clear
>      01:43Z    37     0     14   202  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      02:15Z    37     0     15   191  (S)    -9999     -
>      02:45Z    38    -2     14   211  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      03:15Z    39    -3     10   179  (S)    -9999     -
>      03:51Z    38    -2     21   232  (SW)   -9999     -
>      04:22Z    37     8     14   206  (SSW)  -9999     -    Mostly Clear
>      04:54Z    37     8     14   203  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      05:25Z    37    12     13   211  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      05:55Z    37    12     14   181  (S)    -9999     -
>      06:27Z    38    10     16   196  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      06:57Z    39     9     13   196  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      07:30Z    39    10     15   210  (SSW)  -9999     -     thin clouds
>      08:04Z    39     8      9   198  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      08:37Z    36    13      7   186  (S)    -9999     -
>      09:08Z    36    13     16   214  (SW)   -9999     -
>      09:40Z    36    13     17   210  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      10:13Z    36    14     15   191  (S)    -9999     -     thin clouds
>      10:45Z    36    15     16   191  (S)    -9999     -
>      11:15Z    36    14     19   213  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      11:46Z    35    14     17   204  (SSW)  -9999     -
>      12:16Z    35    15     17   181  (S)    -9999     -
>      12:46Z    35    15     16   199  (SSW)  -9999     -     thin clouds
>
>
>      13:16Z    36    14     10   212  (SSW)  -9999     -
> ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===---
>
> 00:20Z Fans on, doors opened.
> 01:20Z Enclosure off
> 12:46Z Enclosure on
>
> Telescope at 121,30,00
> No interlocks bypassed, LN2 connected, CW at 270lb, cart 06 mounted.
>
> Imager  126lb  21psi
> Spectro 221lb  23psi
>
> ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===---
>
>         IOP/SOP: v3_128_0
>         Watcher: v2_29_0
>         MCP: v5_25_0
>         TPM: tpm_v2_37_0
>         AstroDa: v14_47
>         TCC: TCC 2.7.1 July 22 2003
>         sdssProcedures: v1_84
>         SoS: v4_10_7
>         hoggPT: v1_6_9
>         plate-mapper: v4_3_1
>
>
> ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===---
>
>
> PRIMARY:
> --------
> Scale: 1.000000
>
> MIGS        TONIGHT   NOMINAL
> Axial A      0.5410   0.5420
> Axial B      0.6310   0.6390
> Axial C      1.0950   1.0900
> Trans D      -8.4580  -8.4610
> Lateral E    10.8712  10.8966
> Lateral F    10.8585  10.8712
>
> GALILS
> Commanded: 4600. -2850. 850. -9250. 18400. 17850.
> Actual:    4600. -2866. 866. -9275. 18411. 17825.
>
>
> SETMIR VALUES
> PriDesOrient: 0.00 0.00 15.20 829.90 1.60
> PriOrient:    0.00 0.00 14.91 830.49 3.19
>
> SECONDARY:
> ----------
> Focus: 0.00
> Air Temp.: 3.5
> Alt.: 30.000020
>
> MIGS        TONIGHT   NOMINAL
> Axial A      1.5170   1.5160
> Axial B      1.1200   1.1180
> Axial C      1.1170   1.1210
> Trans D      0.0010   -0.0050
>
> GALILS
> Commanded: 1628694. 1548197. 1574345. -3900. -8750.
> Actual:    1628641. 1548187. 1574504. -3899. -8726.
>
>
> SETMIR VALUES
> SecDesOrient: 1257.00 0.00 -25.00 0.00 146.27
> SecOrient:    1256.97 0.06 -25.03 0.25 146.52
>
>
> ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---
>
> --== misc Watcher errors ==--
>
> dewar (Imager Dewar Scale Communications Fault:: 2004-02-27 00:21:20Z)
>
> tracking (Excessive Az Tracking Error:: 2004-02-27 01:22:01Z)
>
> Text="pointing error probe does not exist:check inst data": (2004-02-27
> 01:43:42Z)
>
> m2 mig (Communications Fault: 2004-02-27 00:26:04Z)
>
> ca (Channel Access Failure: TPM Down?: 2004-02-27 03:56:09Z)
>
> Log Tool Error:
> ---------------
>
> This error popped up when logTool was started.  The logTool window still came
> up, but it didn't collect any of the usual data.  Quitting logTool and
> restarting worked.
> expected unsigned time but got "-2077921270"
>     while executing
> "fmtclock  [convertclock "${month}/${day}/${year} ${time} GMT"] "%b %d %T""
>     invoked from within
> "set murmurLine  [fmtclock  [convertclock "${month}/${day}/${year} ${time}
> GMT"] "%b %d %T"]..."
>     invoked from within
> "if {[regexp {^([0-9][0-9]*)-([0-1][0-9])-([0-3][0-9])
> ([0-2][0-9]:[0-6][0-9]:[0-6][0-9])Z(.*)} $murmurLine whole year month day time
> content]} {
>         set  ..."
>     (procedure "revertMurmurLine" line 8)
>     invoked from within
> "revertMurmurLine $newLine"
>     invoked from within
> "set newLine [revertMurmurLine $newLine]..."
>     (procedure "readMurmurLogLine" line 29)
>     invoked from within
> "readMurmurLogLine 2"
>     (script bound to file event - binding deleted)
>
>
>
> Spectrograph Collimation Adjustment:
> ------------------------------------
>
> sp1 collimator was disassembled inspected and several parts tightened, so a
> full collimation checkout was needed.
>
> sp1> mechSend s
> Coll_motor_A 0
> Coll_motor_B 0
> Coll_motor_C 0
>
> sp2> mechSend s
> Coll_motor_A -35709
> Coll_motor_B 4654
> Coll_motor_C 1640
>
>
> Need to move sp1 spatial direction 10 pixels positive.
>
> sp1> mechMoveColl -1000 -1000 1000
>
>
> XMIN/MAX now in spec.
>
> wavemin in the blue was 3886, want 3792
>
> Need to move sp1 lambda blueward 94 pixels.
> Collimation doc says 100 steps per Angstrom in the blue so issued
>
> sp1> mechMoveColl -9400 9400 0
>
> SoS showed that move was too great.
> Now wavemin in the blue is 3703, so we got a move about twice what we wanted.
> Moving half way back.
>
> sp1> mechMoveColl 4700 -4700 0
>
> That did it.  Is the document wrong?
>
> IDL> collimate, 25338
>
>  COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.22 pix
>  COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix)
>
>  COLLIMATE: Mean offset =  0.11 pix
>  COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean|
>  COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.04 pix
>  COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean|
>  COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.07 pix
>  COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean|
>
>
>
>
>
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