Subject: 2.5m obslog 20110223 (MJD 55616) From: kpan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:31:31 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Wednesday February 23, 2011 (MJD 55616) ---- Observing Team ---- Dmitry Bizyaev Kaike Pan Support: Steph Snedden Jon Brinkmann Stephen Bailey Craig Loomis ---- Observing Plan ---- BOSS Science ---- Observing Summary ---- The first 3.5 hours were clear with okay seeing (1.6-2.2"). Then we had clouds. We lost 2 hours 15 min to the clouds. 5 BOSS plates were observed. cart 11, plate 4471. cart 15, plate 4637. Done. cart 13, plate 4617. cart 14, plate 4029. We accumulated about 20 K dust tonight, please check mirrors. Thanks, ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon: ---------- When STUI was started, we had a serious alert message:Serious mcp.heartbeat The MCP's been dead for at least 129s However, "mcp ping" and "mcp info" responds normally. Therefor, we think it is an old alert from reboot yesterday. SOS3 is not running, Stephen and Jon helped to get it running. However, sos actor could not be reconnected to hub. We restarted it from stagemanger, did sos exitexit, then hub startNubs, STUI retured: hub w text="failed to start nub sos: [Errno 111] Connection refused" We could not check BOSS collimation till sos issue is fixed. 00:45Z Craig successfully reconnected sos actor to STUI. He did this as observer from sos3. We did it as sdss3 from hub25m as stated in out procedure. Since there are only a few minutes from sunset, we decided to open first, and check BOSS collimation after opening. 01:00Z enclosure off. 01:15Z checked collimation. B1 focus ring was adjusted by -5 degrees. It sets at 99 degrees. 23:10Z started ventilation. Night: ----- 01:35Z cart 11, plate 4471. gotoFeild. Since there are still time, we decided to take another full hartmann before take gotoFeild with calibs. 01:47:23 hartSp2: r=-608, b=-2.1, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 3.5 ; 01:47:23 sos.sp2AverageMove = -159 01:47:27 motorPos.sp2.move: -159, -159, -159; 01:47:27 hartSp1: r=1009, b=3.5, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 4.0 ; 01:47:27 sos.sp1AverageMove = -36 01:47:30 motorPos.sp1.move: -37, -37, -35; GSOGTF. 02:00Z started science. DIMM seeing at 1.0" Guider seeing at 2.0" for the 1st exposure, then 1.8". Clear sky. Four exposures were taken. The plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55615 2.6 6.1 2.0 4.4 900.8 15.1 4471-55601-01 55615 1.8 4.9 1.5 3.5 900.8 11.7 4471-55601-01 55616 1.7 3.7 1.2 2.3 900.8 8.9 4471-55601-01 55616 2.2 4.6 1.8 2.8 900.8 11.4 4471-55601-01 55616 2.3 5.0 1.9 2.4 900.8 11.6 4471-55601-01 55616 2.2 4.5 1.8 2.2 900.8 10.7 4471-55601-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 12.8 28.8 10.2 17.6 5404.8 --> 69.4 03:16Z cart 15, plate 4637. gotoField failed on b2 focus ring.03:17:09 hartSp2: r=-1717, b=-5.9, txt=Bad angle !!!!!!! move blue ring -11.8 degrees and then run gotoField noSlew, sp2Temp = 2.8 ; 03:17:09 sos.sp2AverageMove = -4174 03:17:21 motorPos.sp2.move: -4172, -4174, -4174; 03:17:21 hartSp1: r=616, b=2.1, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 3.5 ; 03:17:21 sos.sp1AverageMove = -1884 To confirm this, a full hartmann was taken. B2 focus ring was adjusted by -7 degrees. Then next gotoFeild went okay. 03:30:35 hartSp1: r=704, b=2.4, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 3.3 ; 03:30:35 sos.sp1AverageMove = -51 03:30:40 motorPos.sp1.move: -50, -51, -50; 03:30:40 hartSp2: r=-720, b=-2.5, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 2.6 ; 03:30:40 sos.sp2AverageMove = -1328 03:30Z Wind speed at 20 mph, Gust at 33 mph. Dust is high at 2K. guider seeing at 1.7"-2.2", It is too windy for DIMM to get reliable data. 7 exposures were obtained. The plate is declared done. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55616 2.0 3.3 1.3 2.3 900.8 8.9 4637-55615-01 55616 1.7 3.1 1.3 2.2 900.8 8.3 4637-55615-01 55616 2.7 4.8 1.9 3.3 900.8 12.7 4637-55615-01 55616 3.1 5.7 2.3 3.7 900.9 14.8 4637-55615-01 55616 2.9 5.5 2.2 3.7 900.9 14.3 4637-55615-01 55616 3.3 6.0 2.4 4.0 900.9 15.7 4637-55615-01 55616 3.0 5.7 2.2 3.7 900.9 14.6 4637-55615-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 18.7 34.1 13.6 22.9 6306.0 --> 89.3 ------------------------------------------------------------ 05:40Z cart 13, plate 4617. 05:42:11 hartSp2: r=-100, b=-0.3, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 1.4 ; 05:42:11 sos.sp2AverageMove = 612 05:42:15 motorPos.sp2.move: 616, 614, 611; 05:42:15 hartSp1: r=137, b=0.5, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 2.0 ; 05:42:15 sos.sp1AverageMove = 835 05:42:19 motorPos.sp1.move: 835, 834, 836; GSOGTF. 05:45Z started science. Cloudy sky with 1.8" seeing. 06:00 guiding stars lost to clouds. We did not started 2nd exposure. 08:15Z sky cleared up. Started 2nd science exposure. Clear sky, seeing at 1.7". Seven exposures wee taken on the plate, it is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55616 0.7 1.4 0.5 1.0 900.9 3.6 4617-55615-01 55616 1.3 5.1 1.1 4.5 900.8 12.0 4617-55615-01 55616 1.8 6.7 1.4 5.1 900.8 15.0 4617-55615-01 55616 2.0 6.8 1.6 5.2 900.8 15.6 4617-55615-01 55616 2.2 7.1 1.7 5.5 900.8 16.5 4617-55615-01 55616 1.4 4.1 1.0 3.0 900.8 9.5 4617-55615-01 55616 0.4 0.7 0.2 0.6 900.8 1.9 4617-55615-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 9.8 31.9 7.5 24.9 6305.7 --> 74.1 10:10Z cart 14, plate 4029. 10:10:14 hartSp1: r=-1174, b=-4.0, txt=OK, sp1Temp = -1.1 ; 10:10:14 sos.sp1AverageMove = -4256 10:10:24 motorPos.sp1.move: -4255, -4255, -4252; 10:10:24 hartSp2: r=-240, b=-0.8, txt=OK, sp2Temp = -1.5 ; 10:10:24 sos.sp2AverageMove = -847 Seven exposures were taken under partly cloudy sky and poor seeing, > 2.3". The plate is not done. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55616 0.4 1.6 0.2 1.5 900.9 3.7 4029-55604-01 55616 0.4 1.5 0.2 1.6 900.9 3.7 4029-55604-01 55616 0.4 1.4 0.2 1.4 900.9 3.4 4029-55604-01 55616 0.4 1.6 0.3 1.7 900.8 4.0 4029-55604-01 55616 0.4 1.5 0.3 1.4 900.8 3.6 4029-55604-01 55616 0.4 1.7 0.4 1.8 900.8 4.3 4029-55604-01 55616 0.5 1.7 0.4 1.7 900.8 4.3 4029-55604-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 2.9 11.0 2.0 11.1 6305.9 --> 27.0 12:30Z enclosure on. ---- Focus Log ---- cart 11, focus at 587 um. cart 15, 624 um. cart 13, 622 um. ---- Weather Log ---- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust 12:00 41.9 10.1 15.9 263.5 12479 12:15 42.8 14.3 11.5 252.5 14328 12:30 42.5 13.5 18.0 257.5 13853 12:45 41.7 13.3 16.3 231.2 11586 13:00 42.7 13.6 17.2 251.2 14633 13:15 40.9 11.6 17.9 264.2 13225 13:30 44.0 13.6 16.8 228.3 13799 13:45 42.1 12.5 20.2 248.4 14244 14:00 41.0 11.6 16.6 266.3 12025 14:15 41.1 9.2 19.5 266.6 13037 14:30 40.8 8.8 10.0 263.3 13226 14:45 45.5 12.1 18.9 263.1 13634 15:00 41.3 10.7 16.5 255.0 14384 15:15 44.5 10.6 22.5 282.8 13946 15:30 45.2 11.4 15.6 253.8 15255 15:45 43.8 11.7 24.9 235.8 17585 16:00 43.3 13.2 25.8 210.3 18787 16:15 44.8 12.2 15.1 243.8 20002 16:30 42.4 13.5 23.4 239.8 17919 16:45 41.3 12.7 17.8 251.4 18462 17:00 41.4 12.7 18.1 234.0 19572 17:15 39.3 11.4 18.4 231.6 20122 17:30 39.0 11.6 19.4 235.7 20375 17:45 37.9 11.4 22.7 228.8 20720 18:00 36.5 11.2 19.7 227.0 21451 18:15 36.9 11.2 13.2 208.4 21968 18:30 36.1 11.2 15.9 209.1 22486 18:45 36.1 11.3 16.6 208.0 23552 19:00 35.6 11.4 17.7 201.3 24742 19:15 35.3 11.7 18.7 203.6 24711 19:30 36.3 11.8 28.9 222.5 24881 19:45 35.6 11.7 17.6 253.3 25147 20:00 34.7 11.8 21.3 237.6 25978 20:15 35.3 10.5 25.6 237.5 25609 20:30 35.7 9.6 27.6 224.0 23919 20:45 35.6 9.2 25.0 228.5 23623 21:00 34.5 8.3 22.1 225.6 22033 21:15 34.4 7.5 19.6 247.0 21313 21:30 34.5 9.2 17.8 257.0 22389 21:45 33.8 10.1 19.2 255.6 23414 22:00 33.0 10.6 17.1 260.5 23697 22:15 33.1 11.4 28.4 265.3 20372 22:30 32.4 12.0 19.4 266.6 15181 22:45 32.4 12.2 27.4 264.4 12979 23:00 32.1 12.2 23.7 264.2 12244 23:15 31.7 12.3 16.8 266.2 12339 23:30 31.1 12.4 17.3 265.5 13434 23:45 30.7 12.7 25.5 268.1 15814 00:00 30.7 12.5 14.3 267.1 15909 00:15 30.5 12.4 19.0 273.5 15538 00:30 30.3 12.5 22.9 275.8 14896 00:45 30.3 12.5 26.7 270.3 13501 01:00 29.6 12.5 14.4 263.2 12877 01:15 29.4 12.7 19.6 259.0 13203 01:30 29.3 12.5 22.8 272.7 12069 01:45 28.3 13.6 27.0 265.8 11073 02:00 27.6 13.6 25.3 269.1 10974 02:15 27.1 14.1 20.7 268.5 10043 02:30 26.7 14.3 24.2 266.8 9791 02:45 25.9 14.7 22.0 273.8 9991 03:00 25.8 15.3 17.6 265.7 10590 03:15 25.5 14.9 18.7 273.9 10827 03:30 25.1 14.0 19.6 251.4 11090 03:45 24.4 14.7 24.5 266.3 11437 04:00 23.7 15.1 15.3 263.2 11322 04:15 23.1 15.2 13.9 265.2 11201 04:30 23.1 15.5 18.3 272.8 11094 04:45 22.8 15.4 16.2 271.1 11569 05:00 22.4 15.4 17.5 286.5 11574 05:15 22.7 14.3 28.3 267.6 11689 ---- Telescope Status ---- 23:10Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 01:00Z - Enclosure off. 12:30ZZ - Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 12:40Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: 14 Cartridge Counterweights at: 288 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 141 lbs, 23 psi SP2 148 lbs, 20 psi ---- Software Used ---- ----STUI software: STUI: 1.0b17 2011-02-16; alerts: v1_1_1; apo: v1_5; boss: v2_4_2; boss.daq: 1.2.14; boss.specMech: 3.0.1; gcamera: v1_2_3; guider: v1_3_2; hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_1_5; mcp: v6_6_6; mcp.plc: 26; platedb: v1_0_5; sop: v1_1_7; sos: ** FAILED **; sos.idlspec2d: ** FAILED **; tcc: 2.14.0; -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06; idlspec2d (sos3) --- v5_4_25 plate-mapper3 ------ NOCVS:v5_0_7 ---- Mirror Numbers ---- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -5.521 -5.5210 Axial B: 16.096 16.0910 Axial C: 15.918 15.9190 Trans D: 11.031 10.9960 Lateral E: 10.6553 10.6553 Lateral F: 12.2555 12.2555 GALILS Commanded: 10600 -250 5800 10250 13050 12650 Actual: 10600 -250 5800 10250 13050 12650 SETMIR VALUES PrimDesOrient: 0.00 -13.67 10.53 574.80 742.37 PrimOrient: 0.00 -13.67 10.53 574.80 742.37 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air temp: 5.7 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -7.833 -7.8330 Axial B: -2.432 4.8850 Axial C: 13.816 13.820 Trans D: 14.181 14.1910 GALILS Commanded: 1585350 1566700 1598900 -1450 -50 Actual: 1585362 1566679 1598906 -1450 -50 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -9.00 -4.00 -58.00 23.67 SecOrient: 1257.00 -9.02 -3.98 -58.07 23.32 ---- Problems in Detail ---- 06:00Z-8:15Z- Clouds