Subject: 2.5m obslog 20090205 (MJD 54868) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:16:55 +0000 (UTC) From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday February 5, 2009 (MJD 54868) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Dan Oravetz Alaina Shelden Steph Snedden (afternoon) MARVELS team: Nathan De Lee Liming Dou ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- MARVELS Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- All Marvels all the time. Weather was good except for periodic whispy clouds. Spectrograph cameras were fixed. Cloudcam turns itself off at 8:00Z, Dan restarted it. He said this also happened the last time he worked. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: --------- No spectro focus made because sp2 was out of commission until 23:00Z, roughly. There is one end-of-night pre-selection plate. If it is to be observed, you should check the focus beforehand. No problems noted during afternoon checkout. Cartridge 1 (MARVELS survey) mounted. No data removed from sdsshost2/sdssfiles1 Night: ----- 00:00Z Ventilation started 00:37Z Sunset 00:40Z Enclosure off 01:18Z in-floor calibrations (10 mins) 01:20Z Cart 1 plate 3220A Dec08b_Marvels 01:27Z gotoField, used FK5 stars guide frame #0550 01:39Z start 50 min exposure 02:02Z Evening twilight (18 deg) 02:33Z Cart 1 plate 3220B Dec08b_Marvels 02:34Z in-floor calibrations (10 mins) 02:42Z gotoField guide frame # 0779 02:46Z start 50 min exposure 03:40Z Cart 4 plate 3219A Dec08b_Marvels 03:48Z in-floor calibrations (10 mins) 03:53Z gotoField used spiral pattern to get FK5 stars guide frame #0994 04:03Z start 50 min exposure 04:54Z Cart 9 plate 3088B Nov08a_Marvels 04:57Z in-floor calibrations (10 mins) 05:06Z gotoField guide frame #1217 05:13Z start 50 min exposure 06:05Z Cart 3 plate 3086B Nov08a_Marvels 06:05Z in-floor claibrations (10 mins) 06:17Z gotoField used FK5 stars guide frame #1410 06:30Z start 50 min exposure 07:20Z Cart 4 plate 3219B Dec08b_Marvels 07:21Z in-floor claibrations (10 mins) 07:24Z gotoField guide frame #0140 07:34Z start 50 min exposure 08:26Z Cart 8 plate 3091A Nov08a_Marvels 08:37Z in-floor calibrations (10 mins) 08:38Z gotoField used FK5 stars guide frame #0349 08:44Z start 50 min exposure 09:37Z Cart 8 plate 3091B Nov08a_Marvels 09:38Z in-floor calibrations (10 mins) 09:47Z gotoField used FK5 stars guide frame #0555 09:51Z start 50 min exposure 10:44Z Cart 5 plate 3217A Dec08b_Marvels 10:44Z in-floor calibrations (1o mins) 10:54Z gotoField used FK5 stars guide frame #0750 10:59Z start 50 min exposure 11:29Z Moonset 11:51Z Cart 5 plate 3217B 11:52Z in-floor calibrations (10 mins) 12:00Z gotoField guide frame #0955 12:02Z start 50 min exposure 12:35Z Morning twilight (18 deg) 13:05Z Enclosure on endNight finished and rejoiced :) 14:00Z Sunrise ---=== 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): QA Procedures Done (y/n): UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 ----- sequence 58766, plate -9999 ------- 00:40 58766 0.0 bias ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:44Z 1 0 -84.56 -0.0034 48.12 0.0021 116.67 -0.0050 1.000050 02:47Z 1 3220 -67.82 -0.0020 65.34 0.0002 123.47 0.0013 0.999870 04:04Z 4 3219 198.95 -0.0004 43.45 -0.0035 60.86 0.0219 0.999920 05:13Z 9 3088 209.20 -0.0161 80.71 -0.0024 32.86 0.0238 1.000020 06:30Z 3 3086 204.63 -0.0019 57.72 -0.0023 44.62 0.0244 0.999890 07:35Z 4 3219 198.19 -0.0016 58.72 -0.0033 33.30 0.0119 0.999970 08:45Z 8 3091 -20.49 -0.0007 68.62 0.0005 162.46 0.0192 1.000100 09:52Z 8 3091 239.19 -0.0068 69.66 -0.0015 73.40 0.0088 1.000000 11:00Z 5 3217 229.07 -0.0004 46.38 -0.0019 87.81 0.0055 1.000050 12:03Z 5 3217 271.60 -0.0037 58.18 -0.0008 109.96 -0.0011 1.000050 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01:43Z 1 0 1.00005 -493 878 100 -85 48.2 4.0 2 202 -- 1.0" 02:46Z 1 3220 0.99987 1283 2302 100 -68 65.4 5.2 8 203 -- 1.0" 04:03Z 4 3219 0.99992 789 1857 0 199 43.5 7.3 14 232 -- 1.3" 05:13Z 9 3088 1.00002 -196 854 -100 209 80.8 7.0 17 221 -- 1.3" 06:29Z 3 3086 0.99989 1085 2087 30 205 57.8 5.9 17 202 -- 1.3" 07:35Z 4 3219 0.99997 296 1480 80 198 58.7 4.9 20 211 -- 1.2" 08:45Z 8 3091 1.00010 -986 326 10 -20 68.6 5.5 21 200 -- 1.2" 09:52Z 8 3091 1.00000 1 1141 10 239 69.8 5.8 24 199 -- 1.2" 11:00Z 5 3217 1.00005 -493 794 10 229 46.4 6.4 26 210 -- 1.3" 12:03Z 5 3217 1.00005 -493 748 0 272 58.2 6.7 19 197 -- 1.5" ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 23:08Z 44 4 8 267 (W) 742 - clear 23:40Z 46 5 5 260 (W) 777 - 00:12Z 45 5 4 237 (WSW) 797 - 00:29Z 42 4 2 141 (SE) 897 - 01:01Z 41 2 5 256 (WSW) 778 - 01:33Z 39 4 4 250 (WSW) 942 - 02:05Z 41 0 5 242 (WSW) 652 - 02:36Z 41 0 8 218 (SW) 832 - 03:09Z 41 2 9 210 (SSW) 1014 - 03:41Z 43 -1 11 220 (SW) 777 - 04:14Z 45 0 16 228 (SW) 320 - 04:46Z 43 -2 17 222 (SW) 333 - 05:17Z 43 -2 16 219 (SW) 268 - 05:49Z 43 -3 16 195 (SSW) 294 - 06:21Z 42 -3 20 209 (SSW) 255 - 06:52Z 42 -4 22 200 (SSW) 460 - 07:22Z 42 0 21 204 (SSW) 853 - whispy clouds 07:54Z 41 5 23 203 (SSW) 1235 - 08:27Z 42 7 23 207 (SSW) 1362 - 08:59Z 42 10 22 204 (SSW) 1616 - 09:31Z 41 9 22 199 (SSW) 1687 - 10:02Z 42 9 22 211 (SSW) 1673 - 10:34Z 42 10 13 194 (SSW) 1748 - 11:05Z 43 9 19 203 (SSW) 1871 - 11:35Z 43 7 19 216 (SW) 1586 - 12:07Z 44 7 19 199 (SSW) 1209 - few clouds 12:39Z 43 8 20 192 (SSW) 1307 - 13:11Z 42 8 14 191 (S) 1279 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- Begin ventiallation at 00:00Z Enclosure opened at 00:40Z Enclosere closed, fans off, louvers and doors closed at 13:05Z No interlocks bypassed Status at: 13:11Z Telescope stowed at: 121, 30, 0 Instrument mounted: Cartridge 1 LN2 fill systems: Connected and turned on 180LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 81.8 lbs 16.5 psi Imager 172.3 lbs 18.2 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_39_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: v6_4_0 TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13_1 TCC: TCC 2.7.2.1 August 6 2004 sdssProcedures: SoS: v5_1_8 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.0260 -0.0280 Axial B 0.0510 0.0470 Axial C -0.0330 -0.0360 Trans D -0.7610 -0.7600 Lateral E 10.5918 10.5791 Lateral F 12.1793 12.1793 GALILS Commanded: 10450. -100. 5750. 8600. 10350. 10000. Actual: 10471. -76. 5755. 8616. 10374. 10023. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -11.72 8.60 496.70 640.50 PriOrient: 1.06 -11.65 8.77 495.77 639.59 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 7.6 Alt.: 30.137349 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.5860 18.5840 Axial B 15.6230 15.6220 Axial C 13.8120 13.8150 Trans D 15.1050 15.1080 GALILS Commanded: 1626647. 1528852. 1595573. -2950. -4550. Actual: 1626627. 1528808. 1595583. -2945. -4561. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -12.00 -28.00 -39.00 94.77 SecOrient: 1257.01 -11.98 -28.00 -39.19 94.69 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- Uneventful night, except for the cloudcam decided to turn off at 8:00Z. No other problems.