Subject: 2.5m obslog 20090929 (MJD 55104) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:08:28 +0000 (UTC) From: asimmons@apo.nmsu.edu (Audrey Simmons) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Tuesday September 29, 2009 (MJD 55104) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Dan Oravetz Audrey Simmons Jon Brinkmann (support) ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- MARVELS and BOSS Commossioning/Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- The plateDB computer was down for the first few hours of the night while Jon worked on a bus configuration problem. We were not able to start observing until 03:30Z. The guider actor failed to connect several times throughout the night. We got the same error as last night with trying to load cartridge 8 (plate 3512) side B. We were not able to observe it. See log for error message. We observed the following MARVELS fields in mostly clear, excellent seeing conditions: Cart 1, plate 3517, A&B Cart 9, plate 3513, A&B Cart 3, plate 3084, A Cartridges 1 and 3 both have broken fibers 93-94 corresponding to blue bundle 8, fiber color blue, tape color orange, overlay 28. The MARVELS operating software sends repeated alert messages, warning that the temperature for cd-10 is out of range. See afternoon section of log for error message. We observed BOSS the last two hours of the night with cart 11, plate 3621. We had moderate to bad seeing, and lots of scattered clouds. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- Restarted the servers. Pinged all STUI actors. Guider actor was not connected. Restarted the actor through 'stageManager'. Also, Jon took platedb offline for repairs (bus configuration problem), so we could not access the database nor load a cartridge. Opened MARVELS oberving software and turned on THAR lamp. There is an on-going error about the temperature of ch-10 being out of range. The error message is displayed below. Tue Sep 29 18:36:10 MDT 2009 Error: ALARM> ch-10 : CCD Air = 25.101 > 25.1 C Tue Sep 29 18:38:28 MDT 2009 OK: nominal> ch-10 : CCD Air : 22.9 collimate, 102112 % Compiled module: COLLIMATE. NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b1 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b1-00102112.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 0.462599 0.508645 0.489759 1.06878 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b1-00102113.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 0.452683 0.450374 0.490542 1.00391 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = -2.00 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 2.00 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 1.40 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.36 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 8.0 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-55104-b1-00102112.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-b1-00102112.ps NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b2 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b2-00102112.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 1.75428 1.91624 1.96149 1.94285 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b2-00102113.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 1.76445 1.88112 1.96787 1.94660 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = 1.00 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 1.80 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.24 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 1.35 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -30.1 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-55104-b2-00102112.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-b2-00102112.ps NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r1 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-r1-00102112.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 2.25186 2.42963 2.38083 5.48048 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-r1-00102113.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 2.23264 2.43597 2.38606 5.51065 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.20 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 1.20 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.37 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.37 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 2087 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp1 a=2087 b=2087 c=2087" COLLIMATE: current motorPosition -10241 -10652 -10652 COLLIMATE: new expected motorPosition -8154 -8565 -8565 Log file = Collimate-55104-r1-00102112.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-r1-00102112.ps NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r2 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-r2-00102112.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 2.46370 2.63428 2.52792 2.65399 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-r2-00102113.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 2.46060 2.64074 2.52159 2.65920 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = 0.40 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 1.80 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.36 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.78 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 4460 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp2 a=4460 b=4460 c=4460" COLLIMATE: current motorPosition 28758 27931 28475 COLLIMATE: new expected motorPosition 33218 32391 32935 Log file = Collimate-55104-r2-00102112.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-r2-00102112.ps % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating illegal operand ----- Moved the requested steps for sp1 and sp2 red cameras. Final positions listed below: motorPositions -8175 -8554 -8570 33270 3292 32935 ----- IDL> collimate, 102115 NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b1 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b1-00102115.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 0.468536 0.411836 0.507349 0.910707 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b1-00102116.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 0.469627 0.365500 0.494580 0.762725 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = -3.00 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 2.80 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 1.88 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.36 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 8.0 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-55104-b1-00102115.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-b1-00102115.ps NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b2 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b2-00102115.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 1.76300 1.96484 2.00386 1.91521 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b2-00102116.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 1.76620 1.95234 1.99761 1.93932 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = 0.40 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 1.00 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.22 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.70 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -15.6 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-55104-b2-00102115.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-b2-00102115.ps NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r1 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-r1-00102115.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 2.22942 2.46257 2.40413 5.41287 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-r1-00102116.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 2.23484 2.45582 2.39696 5.44471 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.40 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 1.00 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.36 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.13 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 1401 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp2 a=1401 b=1401 c=1401" COLLIMATE: current motorPosition 33270 32392 32935 COLLIMATE: new expected motorPosition 34671 33793 34336 Log file = Collimate-55104-r2-00102115.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-r2-00102115.ps % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating illegal operand ----- Moved motor positions to agree with the requested move from the red cameras. motorPositions -8175 -8554 -8570 34619 33793 34336 ----- IDL> collimate, 102118L NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b1 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b1-00102118.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 0.515527 0.502536 0.531847 0.614495 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b1-00102119.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 0.516502 0.493092 0.526810 0.603613 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = -3.00 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 2.40 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 2.35 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.21 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 4.8 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-55104-b1-00102118.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-b1-00102118.ps NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA b2 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b2-00102118.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 1.76073 1.92378 1.95942 1.97533 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-b2-00102119.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 1.76298 1.88647 1.99271 1.98528 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = 0.20 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 0.80 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.22 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.50 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -11.2 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-55104-b2-00102118.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-b2-00102118.ps NOW ANALYZING FOCUS FOR CAMERA r1 Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-r1-00102118.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 2.07203 2.18022 2.23781 6.33870 electrons Reading /data/spectro/55104/sdR-r1-00102119.fit SDSSPROC: Read noise = 2.08254 2.11932 2.25922 6.30522 electrons COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.20 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 0.80 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.31 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.12 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of -1000 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp2 a=-1000 b=-1000 c=-1000" COLLIMATE: current motorPosition 34619 33793 34336 COLLIMATE: new expected motorPosition 33619 32793 33336 Log file = Collimate-55104-r2-00102118.log PostScript file = Collimate-55104-r2-00102118.ps % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating illegal operand ------- Moved requested motor positions for the red cameras (102118). Final motor positions are: motorPosition=-7477,-7873,-7880,33619,32793,33336 ------