Subject: 2.5m obslog 20080709 (MJD 54657)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:54:26 -0600 (MDT)
From: swatters@apo.nmsu.edu (Shannon Watters)
                       APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
                                 OBSERVING LOG
                            Wednesday July  9, 2008
                                  (MJD 54657)
---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===---
Howard Brewington
Shannon Watters
Jon Brinkmann (support)
---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===---
	Science!
---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===---
Clouds and rain all night.  We took imager cals.
During afternoon setup we couldn't clear the alt axis because the
"ops_cart_in_house" flag was unhappy.  We Had to reseat the ops cart
(imager cart) pin to clear the interlock.  This has happened a few times now.
While running the image calibrator the software froze and we weren't able to
break out of it (cntrl-c 3 times).  We killed the iop process and restarted the
imager cal setup (twice).  We were able to take test exposures and change
settings through the software but then it would freeze when we tried running
the uLeak script.  The solution was to kill the old teamster (kill -9 #) and
then remove the teamster log file (/tmp/sdss/teamster.imager).  When we started
another iop session it created a new teamster and log file and ran without
problems.  Thanks to Jon Brinkmann for showing us that log file.
The grade 2 nitrogen for the imager dewar back pressure is  collimate, 54002
Reading /data/spectro/54657/sdR-b1-00054002.fit
Reading /data/spectro/54657/sdR-b1-00054003.fit
 COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.48 pix
 COLLIMATE: Max offset =  0.61 pix
 COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD =  0.24 pix
 COLLIMATE: Mean offset =  0.05 pix
 COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean|