Subject: 2.5m obslog 20070314 (MJD 54174) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:37:13 -0600 (MDT) From: swatters@apo.nmsu.edu APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Wednesday March 14, 2007 (MJD 54174) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Swing: Kaike Pan Night: Mike Harvanek Shannon Watters ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- Started the night with photometric skies but there were clouds to the west so we went fishing for spectra. We finished 4 plates before clouds rolled in. We also acquired signal on 3 others. The plate database shows that cart 4, plate 2402's UTmax is 03:25Z but that's more than an hour before it even transits. We don't know why it ends so early but we went ahead and switched carts. There was a problem with SAOimage (see log, problems). The west side door is making a grinding noise again. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ----------- Spectro focus adjusted. Now set for about 5 C. Cartridge 4 mounted for the beginning of the night. Night: ------- 02:10Z Cart 4, plate 2402, seguefaint134. NGSOGTF, FK5 used but probably because the sky is so bright (fk5 was centered on the fiber after the slew). T=10.4C, relfoc=0, seeing~1.6 02:22Z Precals 02:29Z Science (1200) 02:52Z Science (1200) 03:15Z Science (1200) The database has this plate ending at 03:25Z but it's still over an hour before the field transits. 03:37Z Postcals We didn't notice until after but SAOimage crashed before the last exposure was finished and that stopped the guider so the last ? minutes of that exposure were unguided. (S/N)^2 looked good though. 03:45Z Cart 1, plate 2588, chunk151. rev (S/N)^2: (12.1 10.2 14.4 13.7) GSOGTF, T=11.1C, relfoc=-100, seeing~1.4" 04:00Z Precals 04:06Z Science (900) PLATE DONE 04:28Z Cart 7, plate 2589, chunk151. GSOGTF, T=11.2C, relfoc=-100, seeing~1.3" 04:35Z Precals 04:47Z Science (900) 05:02Z Science (900) 05:19Z Science (900) PLATE DONE 05:40Z Cart 6, plate 2479, chunk143. GSOGTF, T=10.5C, relfoc=-50, seeing~1.2" 05:48Z Precals 05:57Z Science (900) 06:14Z Science (900) 06:32Z Science (720) PLATE DONE 06:50Z Cart 3, plate 2494, chunk143. GSOGTF, T=11C, relfoc=-100, seeing~1.0" 06:58Z Precals 07:06Z Science (720) 07:21Z Science (900) 07:44Z Science (900) PLATE DONE 08:05Z Cart 8, plate 2495, chunk143. GSOGTF, T=9.7C, relfoc=-25, seeing~2.0" 08:11Z Precals 08:19Z Science (1200) BAD (low S/N) 08:42Z Science (1200) 09:05Z Science (1200) BAD (low S/N) 09:32Z Cart 9, plate 2472, segue140. GSOGTF, T=9.5C. 09:38Z Precals We didn't get any good exposures 11:33Z Cart 2, plate 1807, chunk95. GSOGTF, T=9.4C, relfoc=0, seeing~1.6" 11:35Z Precals 11:47Z Science (1200) endNight rejoiced ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Time Stripe Lambda Last Flavor Comments Start End Begin End Frame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6755 23:21Z 23:44Z 100 O -128.25 -122.60 52 ignore ---=== 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 ----- sequence 43447, plate -9999 ------- 23:23 43447 0.0 bias ----- sequence 43448, plate 2402 ------- 23:29 43448 10.0 flat 23:32 43449 2.0 arc 23:35 43450 2.0 arc 23:38 43451 2.0 arc 23:50 43452 2.0 arc 23:53 43453 3.0 arc 00:06 43454 3.0 arc 00:09 43455 3.0 arc 00:13 43456 10.0 flat 00:16 43457 2.0 arc 00:21 43458 3.0 arc 00:23 43459 3.0 arc 00:36 43460 10.0 flat 00:39 43461 2.0 arc 00:49 43462 3.0 arc 00:51 43463 2.0 arc 00:56 43464 10.0 flat 00:58 43465 2.0 arc ----- sequence 43466, plate -9999 ------- 01:09 43466 0.0 bias ----- sequence 43468, plate 2402 ------- 02:24 43468 10.0 flat 02:26 43469 2.0 arc 02:50 43470 1200.0 target 03:13 43471 1201.0 target 03:36 43472 1200.0 target 03:39 43473 10.0 flat 03:42 43474 2.0 arc ----- sequence 43475, plate 2588 ------- 04:02 43475 10.0 flat 04:04 43476 2.0 arc 04:23 43477 900.0 target ----- sequence 43478, plate 2589 ------- 04:37 43478 10.0 flat 04:40 43479 2.0 arc 05:00 43480 901.0 target 05:18 43481 901.0 target 05:35 43482 900.0 target ----- sequence 43483, plate 2479 ------- 05:50 43483 10.0 flat 05:53 43484 2.0 arc 06:12 43485 901.0 target 06:30 43486 900.0 target 06:45 43487 720.0 target ----- sequence 43488, plate 2494 ------- 07:00 43488 10.0 flat 07:03 43489 2.0 arc 07:19 43490 721.0 target 07:37 43491 902.0 target 08:00 43492 901.0 target ----- sequence 43493, plate 2495 ------- 08:13 43493 10.0 flat 08:16 43494 2.0 arc 08:41 43495 1200.0 target 09:03 43496 1200.0 target 09:26 43497 1200.0 target ----- sequence 43498, plate 2472 ------- 09:40 43498 10.0 flat 09:42 43499 2.0 arc 10:18 43500 1200.0 target 10:41 43501 1200.0 target 11:04 43502 1200.0 target 11:22 43503 902.0 target ----- sequence 43504, plate 1807 ------- 11:42 43504 10.0 flat 11:44 43505 2.0 arc 12:09 43506 1201.0 target ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:29Z 4 2402 62.43 0.0008 46.62 0.0034 228.68 -0.0030 1.000190 04:00Z 1 2588 60.75 0.0022 59.67 0.0026 229.40 -0.0037 1.000130 04:49Z 7 2589 47.42 -0.0011 68.77 0.0034 220.41 -0.0009 1.000080 05:56Z 6 2479 20.78 0.0015 74.70 0.0028 198.29 0.0192 1.000130 08:19Z 8 2495 -59.80 0.0004 66.44 0.0019 129.69 -0.0088 1.000180 12:06Z 2 1807 -64.97 -0.0025 47.25 0.0020 129.48 0.0073 1.000120 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02:29Z 4 2402 1.00019 -1876 -361 0 62 46.6 11.3 4 1 04:00Z 1 2588 1.00013 -1284 -9 -100 61 59.7 11.2 2 256 04:49Z 7 2589 1.00008 -790 380 -100 47 68.8 10.0 7 190 05:56Z 6 2479 1.00013 -1284 12 -50 21 74.7 10.6 7 242 07:10Z 3 2494 1.00013 -1284 -37 -100 -14 73.7 10.9 10 266 08:19Z 8 2495 1.00018 -1778 -359 -25 -60 66.4 9.9 7 280 12:06Z 2 1807 1.00012 -1185 209 0 -65 47.3 9.2 13 27 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 21:21Z 54 21 6 306 (NW) 332 - cloudy 21:53Z 53 18 15 334 (NNW) 279 - 22:25Z 55 21 4 251 (WSW) 326 - 22:56Z 54 20 7 7 (N) 286 - 23:28Z 57 21 9 279 (W) 268 - partly cloudy 23:59Z 53 20 0 197 (SSW) 300 - 00:30Z 53 19 7 283 (WNW) 259 - 01:02Z 53 19 2 246 (WSW) 298 - clear 01:28Z 51 18 5 6 (N) 322 - 01:59Z 51 17 5 348 (NNW) 313 - 02:29Z 52 17 4 1 (N) 323 - 02:59Z 51 16 5 349 (NNW) 326 - 03:30Z 52 16 4 270 (W) 314 - 04:00Z 52 17 2 255 (WSW) 354 - 04:30Z 52 17 2 246 (WSW) 321 - 05:01Z 50 17 8 197 (SSW) 318 - 05:32Z 50 18 4 193 (SSW) 328 - 06:02Z 51 17 7 243 (WSW) 337 - 06:33Z 51 17 6 261 (W) 382 - 07:03Z 51 16 9 268 (W) 400 - 07:34Z 50 18 8 268 (W) 387 - 08:06Z 50 18 9 285 (WNW) 516 - 08:37Z 49 18 11 287 (WNW) 522 - 09:09Z 48 19 6 11 (N) 539 - cloudy 09:43Z 48 17 13 7 (N) 387 - 10:15Z 48 16 9 18 (NNE) 324 - 10:46Z 48 14 15 9 (N) 270 - 11:18Z 49 12 11 21 (NNE) 308 - partly cloudy 11:49Z 48 13 16 29 (NNE) 323 - 12:19Z 48 13 12 35 (NE) 307 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 00:50Z Fans on, louvers and doors open. 01:50Z Enclosure off. 12:30Z Enclosure on, doors closed, fans and blowers off, louvers closed. Telescope stowed at 30 degrees with caart 2 mounted and the counterweights at 250. The spectrographs were left in auto-fill mode. Spectro dewar: 12:35Z 126.5 lb, 24.14 psi Imager dewar: 12:35Z 133.8 lb, 19.90 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_31_0 Watcher: v2_35_0 MCP: v6_3_2 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13 TCC: TCC 2.7.2.1 August 6 2004 sdssProcedures: v2_23 SoS: v5_1_8 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 0.0070 -0.0050 Axial B 0.0060 0.0090 Axial C 0.0080 0.0160 Trans D 0.0020 0.0040 Lateral E 9.9695 9.9568 Lateral F 11.5443 11.5443 GALILS Commanded: 4600. -2000. 2650. -9300. -9800. -9800. Actual: 4600. -2000. 2650. -9300. -9800. -9800. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 PriOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 12.1 Alt.: 30.350122 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.0300 -0.0240 Axial B -0.0320 -0.0280 Axial C -0.0440 -0.0370 Trans D -0.0110 -0.0040 GALILS Commanded: 1614024. 1594843. 1543076. -10550. -5800. Actual: 1614053. 1594719. 1543082. -10535. -5822. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 20.00 -10.00 -100.00 176.64 SecOrient: 1257.02 20.03 -9.96 -100.41 176.54 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- Spectro Focus Info: ------------------- Focus checked but no adjustment made, still set for the about 5 C. sp1> caget tpm_TM_PMSSAvg tpm_TM_TelairAvg.VALA tpm_TM_PMSSAvg 8.53 tpm_TM_TelairAvg.VALA 8.93 sp1 11 sp2 9 Mean offset (pix) collimator position b1 r1 b2 r2 A B C A B C .18 -.40 .21 -.37 sp1: 6982 5290 4420 Sp2: 9586 8936 8642 Filename 02% 05% 10% 50% 90% 95% 98% ------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ sdR-b1-00043447.fit -5.2 -4.1 -3.0 2.2 7.5 9.1 10.6 sdR-b1-00043447.fit -5.2 -4.1 -3.0 2.2 7.5 9.1 10.6 sdR-b2-00043447.fit -8.4 -6.1 -4.8 1.5 7.5 9.0 11.2 sdR-b2-00043447.fit -8.4 -6.1 -4.8 1.5 7.5 9.0 11.2 sdR-r1-00043447.fit -7.0 -5.1 -3.7 1.9 7.2 9.3 11.5 sdR-r1-00043447.fit -7.0 -5.1 -3.7 1.9 7.2 9.3 11.5 sdR-r2-00043447.fit -7.3 -6.0 -4.2 1.4 7.4 8.7 11.6 sdR-r2-00043447.fit -7.3 -6.0 -4.2 1.4 7.4 8.7 11. 04:15Z SAOImage has crashed 3 times on monxMike. Each time it crashes the guider quits. It restarted without problems.