Subject: 2.5m obslog 20111124 (MJD 55890) From: dmbiz@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:10:26 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday November 24, 2011 (MJD 55890) ---- Observing Team ---- Howard Breington Dmitry Bizyaev Nine more Thanksgiving celebrators, and 2 turkeys & Co ---- Observing Plan ---- 24 Nov 2011 55890.0 0.01 01:25 12:16 22:36 09:29 BOSS 10.9 hours ---- Observing Summary ---- The night of rain and Thanksgiving. We did not have a chance to open. We finished dithered flats for cart.14. ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon: ---------- 22:00Z Started the afternoon checkout. Checked email Checked 180-L dewars weight Checked status of rain sensor Recorded the software versions Recorded and checked mirror numbers Did 'platedb showActive' All BOSS/MARVELS carts are ready Tested the actors Check calib lamps Guider/gcamera tests: a) gcamera status (simulate=off; temp=-40) b) gcamera dark time=20 c) guider flat d) guider status Spectro tests and focus a) guider loadCartridge b) boss exposure bias itime=0 c) boss exposure dark itime=20 d) sop hartmann e) sop doCalibs f) checked xMid and waveMid values g) declared calibs as test Checked that carts were in bay correctly; All BOSS/MARVELS carts are ready hub25m>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 95G 17G 74G 19% / /dev/sda4 793G 183G 570G 25% /home /dev/sda1 99M 25M 69M 27% /boot tmpfs 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /dev/shm sdssfiles1-p://data1/data/MARVELS 1.8T 327G 1.5T 18% /MARVELS /dev/drbd1 13T 8.4T 4.2T 67% /data Night: we did not start ventilation because of huge approaching cloud system with rain. 01:20Z the sky is overcast. Rain started. We did dithered flats with cart.14. 00:24 r1-00136855 14 4663 arc Lef 4.8 39186 39399 35760 HART 00:26 r1-00136856 14 4663 arc Rig 4.8 39186 39399 35760 HART 00:29 r1-00136857 14 4663 arc Lef 4.8 39186 39399 35760 HART 00:30 r1-00136858 14 4663 arc Rig 4.8 39186 39399 35760 HART 00:35 r1-00136859 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40515 40727 35720 00:37 r1-00136860 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40454 40666 35784 00:39 r1-00136861 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40392 40604 35843 00:41 r1-00136862 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40330 40542 35908 00:43 r1-00136863 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40268 40480 35968 00:45 r1-00136864 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40206 40418 36028 00:47 r1-00136865 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40144 40356 36092 00:49 r1-00136866 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40082 40294 36150 00:51 r1-00136867 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 40020 40233 36210 00:53 r1-00136868 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39958 40171 36277 00:55 r1-00136869 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39896 40109 36341 00:57 r1-00136870 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39834 40047 36406 00:59 r1-00136871 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39772 39985 36461 01:01 r1-00136872 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39710 39923 36530 01:03 r1-00136873 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39648 39861 36590 01:05 r1-00136874 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39586 39799 36653 01:07 r1-00136875 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39524 39737 36713 01:09 r1-00136876 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39462 39678 36777 01:11 r1-00136877 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39400 39613 36838 01:13 r1-00136878 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39338 39552 36897 01:15 r1-00136879 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39276 39490 36963 01:17 r1-00136880 14 4663 fla Out 30.8 39214 39429 37027 07:19Z gang connector cleaned. Started APOGEE calibrations, Autoscheduler started. 11:03Z A more severe weather is approaching. We call it a night. Primary and secondary dewars filled. ---- Weather Log ---- Wind 1 um DIMM IRSC Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Dir Dust fwhm mean sigma 19:00 10.3 -11.2 10.2 236.9 420 19:15 10.0 -11.1 15.7 254.2 268 19:30 10.5 -11.4 8.0 257.8 210 19:45 10.7 -11.2 16.5 250.2 279 20:00 11.3 -11.4 13.3 264.3 265 20:15 10.0 -10.8 17.9 236.8 226 20:30 9.9 -11.3 8.9 257.5 322 20:45 10.0 -9.9 8.8 247.9 345 21:00 9.8 -11.1 15.6 259.7 228 21:15 9.4 -10.9 17.5 258.7 230 21:30 9.2 -10.8 16.1 255.6 326 21:45 9.5 -10.3 13.5 257.1 355 22:00 8.8 -10.2 13.2 264.6 319 22:15 8.8 -9.3 13.3 266.1 287 22:30 9.6 -6.2 8.1 242.4 272 22:45 7.9 -7.7 20.0 273.1 195 23:00 7.7 -4.3 8.8 255.3 156 23:15 7.5 -4.7 10.2 239.6 157 23:30 7.4 -2.2 11.3 247.6 358 23:45 7.2 0.6 14.4 268.6 108 00:00 7.1 0.5 10.3 267.8 89 00:15 7.2 0.1 15.8 275.8 91 00:30 7.0 -0.3 10.7 265.5 99 00:45 7.2 0.8 6.0 242.0 116 01:00 7.1 0.5 12.8 265.3 91 01:15 7.3 1.2 13.5 277.3 88 01:30 7.1 0.6 14.0 272.3 103 01:45 6.9 -0.6 11.9 257.1 151 02:00 6.7 -2.2 11.8 248.0 153 02:15 6.6 0.3 13.3 237.1 166 02:30 7.3 -0.6 11.5 256.0 130 02:45 7.0 -1.1 13.5 239.8 119 03:00 6.6 -3.0 10.4 262.2 150 03:15 5.8 -8.7 11.3 268.8 230 03:30 5.2 -11.4 9.2 259.3 391 03:45 5.0 -11.1 8.0 260.5 515 04:00 3.6 -8.3 8.7 286.1 828 04:15 2.7 -5.6 17.0 324.5 733 04:30 2.2 -3.8 9.9 335.6 620 04:45 2.2 0.1 2.4 325.3 402 05:00 1.8 1.3 13.2 331.3 374 05:15 2.1 1.8 12.7 334.7 451 05:30 2.0 1.6 6.9 10.1 1429 05:45 2.3 1.3 13.8 29.1 169 06:00 4.4 -6.3 0.6 226.0 263 06:15 5.4 -7.4 9.4 234.2 234 06:30 5.0 -6.6 9.8 229.1 257 06:45 4.9 -6.1 11.5 234.1 248 07:00 5.0 -7.2 5.7 260.3 259 07:15 4.7 -7.4 1.7 216.5 323 07:30 4.8 -7.7 5.6 256.3 341 07:45 5.0 -7.6 4.8 260.5 398 08:00 4.6 -6.5 3.7 246.9 353 08:15 4.6 -5.9 4.9 257.5 296 08:30 2.9 -0.4 8.4 350.9 182 08:45 3.1 0.5 11.9 345.6 135 09:00 3.3 0.0 8.7 358.8 266 09:15 4.7 -3.1 1.1 190.1 367 09:30 5.8 -5.1 13.4 203.1 388 09:45 5.6 -5.4 11.9 202.6 392 10:00 4.4 -2.8 10.7 286.4 435 10:15 2.8 0.1 10.5 300.0 219 10:30 2.1 1.0 1.9 235.3 233 10:45 1.7 0.9 0.7 177.1 211 11:00 1.4 1.1 7.5 330.8 3515 ---- Telescope Status ---- Never opened tonight. No interlocks bypassed Status at: 11:10 Telescope stowed at: 121.0, 30.0, 0.0 mount Instrument mounted: cartridge = 14 Counterweights at: 284, 285, 282, 285 LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 255 lbs, 23 psi SP2 206 lbs, 20 psi ---- Software Used ---- getVersions, 2011-11-24 22:01:56 ----STUI software: STUI: 1.1.2b1 2011-11-08; alerts: v1_2_0; apo: v1_7; boss: v2_5_4; boss.daq: 1.3.2; boss.specMech: 3.0.1; gcamera: v1_2_7; guider: v1_3_16; hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_1_8; mcp: v6_6_10; mcp.plc: 28; mcp.azFiducialVersion: v1_100; mcp.altFiducialVersion: v1_100; mcp.rotFiducialVersion: v1_100; platedb: v1_0_5; sop: v1_2_9; sos: v1_2_0; sos.idlspec2d: v5_5_3; tcc: 2.14.0; apogee: ? apogeecal: ? apogeeql: v1_4_1 -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06; Setting up: idlspec2d Flavor: Linux64 Version: v5_5_3 Setting up: |elodie Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_3 Setting up: |spinspect Flavor: Linux64 Version: start Setting up: |specflat Flavor: NULL Version: v1_18 Setting up: |speclog Flavor: Linux64 Version: trunk Setting up: |platelist Flavor: Linux64 Version: trunk Setting up: |platedb Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_0_9 Setting up: |hooloovookit Flavor: Linux64 Version: v3.0b4 Setting up: |sqlalchemy Flavor: Linux64 Version: 0.5.5 Setting up: |psycopg Flavor: Linux64 Version: 2.0.11 Setting up: |scipy Flavor: Linux64 Version: 0.7.1 Setting up: |actorcore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_15_0 Setting up: |opscore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_15 Setting up: |external Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_2_0 Setting up: |actorkeys Flavor: Linux64 Version: trunk Setting up: |plc Flavor: Linux64 Version: v28_1 Setting up: |sdss3tools Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_7_10 Setting up: |RO Flavor: Linux64 Version: RO-2.8.0 Setting up: |tron Flavor: Linux64 Version: sdss3_v1_1_8 Setting up: |idlutils Flavor: Linux64 Version: v5_4_23 Setting up: |idl Flavor: Linux64 Version: 7.1 Setting up: |dust Flavor: Linux64 Version: v0_1 Setting up: actorcore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_15_0 Setting up: |opscore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_15 Setting up: |external Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_2_0 Setting up: |actorkeys Flavor: Linux64 Version: trunk Setting up: |plc Flavor: Linux64 Version: v28_1 Setting up: |sdss3tools Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_7_10 Setting up: |RO Flavor: Linux64 Version: RO-2.8.0 Setting up: |tron Flavor: Linux64 Version: sdss3_v1_1_8 ---- Mirror Numbers ---- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -0.129 -0.127 Axial B: 0.071 0.08 Axial C: -0.005 -0.004 Trans D: 0.41005 0.40935 Lateral E: 10.6553 10.6553 Lateral F: 12.2682 12.2809 GALILS Commanded: 11300 -650 5500 19150 13500 13050 Actual: 11300 -650 5500 19150 13500 13050 SETMIR VALUES PrimDesOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 612.35 1325.90 PrimOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 612.43 1325.18 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air temp: 9.3 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -8.406 -8.408 Axial B: -8.691 -8.705 Axial C: -12.153 -12.158 Trans D: -10.029 -10.018 GALILS Commanded: 1577450 1611550 1562700 -9050 -6750 Actual: 1577463 1611548 1562692 -9050 -6750 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 13.00 8.00 -60.00 174.63 SecOrient: 1256.99 13.01 8.01 -60.38 174.68