Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:06:54 GMT
From: observer@apo.nmsu.edu
Subject: 2.5m obslog 20060328 (MJD 53823)
                       APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
                                 OBSERVING LOG
                             Tuesday March 28, 2006
                                  (MJD 53823)
---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===---
Swing:  John Barentine
Night:  Jurek Krzesinski
        Olena Malanushenko
Visitors: LAMOST Beijing China, Haotong Zhang, Xu ZHOU (who stayed most of the
          night with us).
---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===---
        Science!
---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===---
After some waiting finaly the weather got improved (obviously thanks to
LAMOST group) and we finished 4 plates: 2229,2234,2240,2163.
Problems:
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portion of image not in the buffer (see the log).
---=== OBSERVING LOG ===---
Afternoon
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No problems today.  Spectro focus numbers are in the Problems section.
Night
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04:14Z cart 1 plt 2434 mounted. SOGTF. One exposure taken. not done.
04:58Z cart 5 plt 2077 mounted. SOGTF. One exposure taken. We've got an
       error message whe we changed the exposure time on this plate:
SOPGUI: pauseStare
appending PAUSE
Exposure has been paused
end stare is still scheduled, but time should stay fixed
SOPGUI: resumeStare 1800
Changing exposure time to 1800 seconds
appending ALTER
Exposure started at 2006-03-29 05:05:10Z; 922.3 seconds to go
Exposure started at 2006-03-29 05:05:10Z; 914.8 seconds to go
SORRY: portion of image not in buffer.     0.15 pix)
    COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of  2085 steps for spectro-1
    COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.14 pix
    COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.15 pix)
    COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of  1323 steps for spectro-2