Subject: 2.5m obslog 20110426 (MJD 55678) From: kpan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:16:57 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Tuesday April 26, 2011 (MJD 55678) ---- Observing Team ---- Howard Brewington Kaike Pan ---- Observing Plan ---- 26 Apr 2011 55678.0 0.37 03:11 10:51 10:26 18:08 BOSS 7.7 hours ---- Observing Summary ---- The first half of the night was lost to high dust. During that time, We finished Adam's sparse-plug test. We opened at 07:00Z, observed three BOSS plates: cart 15, plate 3955, DONE. cart 13, plate 4804. cart 17, plate 4074. FF lamp above CW #4 burned out during the sparse-plug test. It was replaced, the bad one is on Wendell's desk. ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon: ---------- 23:00Z 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) gcamera flat time=0.5 cartridge=16 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 Opened doors/louvers; turned on fans Mounted first cart of the night hub25m> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 95G 16G 75G 18% / /dev/sda4 793G 145G 607G 20% /home /dev/sda1 99M 19M 75M 20% /boot tmpfs 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /dev/shm sdssfiles1-p://data1/data/MARVELS 1.8T 289G 1.6T 16% /MARVELS /dev/drbd1 13T 3.9T 8.7T 31% /data No evening ventilation, because high dust count, at ~15K. 01:40Z dust count was over 10K, we decided not to open. Night: ------ 02:35Z: Dust was still very high, at 11K. We decided to mount cart 11 for sparse-plug test left Flexible Engineering. 02:50Z: cart 11, plate 4652. Sparse-plug test. Two in focus flat frames: 130077, 130079 Two in focus arc frames: 130078, 130080 Two arcs for each following collimation piston positions (numbers represent number of steps away from the best focus): +1000: frames 130081-82 +2000: frames 130083-84 +3000: frames 130085-86 +4000: frames 130087-88 +5000: frames 130089-90 +7500: frames 130091-92 +10000: frames 130093-94 Two in focus flat frames 130100-130101 Two in focus arc frames: 130102-130103 -1000: frames 130104-05 -2000: frames 130106-07 -3000: frames 130108-09 -4000: frames 130110-11 -5000: frames 130112-13 -7500: frames 130114-15 -10000: frames 130116-17 Two in focus flat frames 130121-130122 Two in focus arc frames: 130123-130124 04:00Z FF lamp above CW #4 burned out during the sparse-plug test. It was replaced, the bad one is on Wendell's desk. 06:45Z dust down t0 5 K, we started ventilation. 07:01Z Dust seems stable at 4.5K or so. mounted cartridge 15, open the enclosure. 07:15Z cart 15, plate 3955. SOGTF. 07:24Z started 15 min science. The sky was clear. Guider seeing at 1.7-2.0". The last exposure, frame 130133 was stopped, and declared bad because enough S/N has been obtained. The plate is done with existing signal. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55677 1.7 4.1 1.3 3.6 900.8 10.7 3955-55675-01 55677 2.2 4.8 1.5 3.9 900.8 12.4 3955-55675-01 55677 2.5 5.3 1.7 4.6 900.8 14.1 3955-55675-01 55677 1.1 3.0 0.8 2.5 900.8 7.4 3955-55675-01 55677 0.8 2.0 0.5 1.6 900.8 4.9 3955-55675-01 55677 1.0 2.8 0.8 2.3 900.8 6.9 3955-55675-01 55677 0.8 2.0 0.6 1.8 900.8 5.2 3955-55675-01 55677 0.9 2.5 0.7 1.9 900.8 6.0 3955-55675-01 55677 0.5 1.7 0.4 1.3 900.8 3.9 3955-55675-01 55677 0.9 2.7 0.6 1.9 900.8 6.1 3955-55675-01 55678 2.4 5.1 1.6 4.5 900.8 13.6 3955-55675-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 14.8 36.0 10.5 29.9 9908.8 --> 91.2 07:45Z cart 13, plate 4804. SOGTF. 7:52:00 hartSp1: r=36, b=0.1, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 5.4 ; 07:52:00 sos.sp1AverageMove = 1897 07:52:05 motorPos.sp1.move: 1898, 1896, 1897; 07:52:06 hartSp2: r=-468, b=-1.6, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 5.2 ; 07:52:06 sos.sp2AverageMove = 1300 07:52:12 motorPos.sp2.move: 1300, 1300, 1300; 08:00Z started 15 min science X 6 Photometric sky. Seeing at 1.6-2.3". During the 3rd exposure, seeing degraded to 2.3-3.1". The plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55678 1.6 4.0 1.3 3.3 900.8 10.2 4804-55678-01 55678 1.2 3.1 1.1 2.1 900.8 7.5 4804-55678-01 55678 1.0 2.4 1.0 1.5 900.8 5.9 4804-55678-01 55678 1.1 2.2 1.1 1.2 900.8 5.6 4804-55678-01 55678 1.5 2.2 1.4 1.2 900.8 6.3 4804-55678-01 55678 1.4 1.8 1.4 1.0 900.8 5.6 4804-55678-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 7.8 15.7 7.3 10.3 5404.8 --> 41.1 09:43Z cart 17, plate 4047. Because temperature changed by about -6 degrees, short hartmann asked for b1 focus movement. It was adjusted by -10 degrees. 10:10Z started 15 min science. Clear sky, guider seeing at 2.2-2.8". Three exposures were taken. The plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile ------------------------------------------------------------ 55678 0.7 2.6 0.8 2.3 900.8 6.4 4074-55675-01 55678 0.6 2.1 0.6 1.7 900.8 5.0 4074-55675-01 55678 0.9 2.9 0.9 2.3 900.8 7.0 4074-55675-01 ------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2 7.6 2.3 6.3 2702.4 --> 18.4 11:10Z enclosure on. ---- Telescope Offsets and Scale ---- Time Inst Az Alt Rot objArcOff guideRot calibOff scale -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07:24 15-3955A 42.6 76.0 217.8 (-3.2, 7.3) (38.5) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 1.000300 a 07:40 15-3955A 28.2 78.0 205.3 (-2.4, 6.3) (48.2) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 1.000353 a 08:00 13-4804A 14.8 60.7 192.4 ( 1.0, 3.6) (10.9) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 1.000396 a 08:16 13-4804A 6.5 61.3 185.4 ( 1.0, 3.6) (10.8) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 1.000383 a 08:33 13-4804A -2.0 61.5 178.2 ( 0.8, 2.9) ( 9.6) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 1.000357 a 08:49 13-4804A -10.5 61.1 171.1 (-0.2, 2.2) ( 7.4) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 1.000326 a 09:05 13-4804A -18.7 60.2 164.3 (-1.3, 1.2) ( 3.6) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 1.000295 a 09:22 13-4804A -26.3 58.9 158.0 (-2.5, 1.3) (-0.8) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 1.000264 a 10:11 17-4074A -46.8 66.3 140.5 (-10.9,-4.4) (26.7) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 0.999951 a 10:28 17-4074A -53.8 63.6 135.2 (-11.2,-3.2) (22.7) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 0.999974 a 10:44 17-4074A -59.6 60.7 131.2 (-11.8,-2.4) (19.0) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 0.999963 a ---- Focus Log ---- Time Inst Scale M1 M2 Focus Az Alt Temp Wind Dir -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07:24 15-3955A 1.000300 -2962 -533 796 42.6 76.0 2.2 20 332 1.8 a 07:40 15-3955A 1.000353 -3481 -855 905 28.2 78.0 1.8 5 311 2.0 a 08:00 13-4804A 1.000396 -3908 -1164 921 14.8 60.7 1.6 6 0 2.4 a 08:16 13-4804A 1.000383 -3781 -1068 914 6.5 61.3 1.2 8 348 2.5 a 08:33 13-4804A 1.000357 -3523 -871 896 -2.0 61.5 0.7 10 26 2.3 a 08:49 13-4804A 1.000326 -3211 -644 872 -10.5 61.1 0.3 21 5 2.5 a 09:05 13-4804A 1.000295 -2914 -415 846 -18.7 60.2 0.2 12 333 2.1 a 09:22 13-4804A 1.000264 -2605 -219 782 -26.3 58.9 0.3 32 355 2.4 a 10:11 17-4074A 0.999951 484 2178 639 -46.8 66.3 -0.1 21 30 2.4 a 10:28 17-4074A 0.999974 258 1982 625 -53.8 63.6 -0.2 30 9 2.5 a 10:44 17-4074A 0.999963 363 2062 612 -59.6 60.7 -0.5 8 39 2.7 a ---- Weather Log ---- Wind DIMM IRSC Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Dir Dust fwhm mean sigma 18:00 7.8 -6.7 16.6 260.5 43558 18:15 8.1 -7.2 19.4 276.4 43978 18:30 7.5 -6.4 23.6 277.2 45506 18:45 7.8 -5.7 23.5 270.1 45393 19:00 8.8 -5.4 21.2 274.3 50875 19:15 9.9 -5.7 29.6 294.7 50554 19:30 11.6 -5.7 25.1 264.1 55312 19:45 10.0 -7.7 38.8 280.8 57547 20:00 9.8 -7.3 27.1 268.1 55943 20:15 10.4 -8.1 25.2 271.1 63841 20:30 10.9 -8.4 30.4 284.9 62690 20:45 12.1 -10.2 37.3 263.5 79076 21:00 12.0 -10.2 35.7 274.4 80492 21:15 12.6 -10.3 33.7 269.2 93544 21:30 11.6 -11.4 42.6 288.2 78499 21:45 12.7 -10.7 33.0 264.8 84901 22:00 12.2 -11.7 25.1 284.3 70594 22:15 12.9 -11.8 38.4 286.4 80713 22:30 13.0 -11.8 25.6 261.8 81128 22:45 12.7 -11.9 41.7 277.2 94913 23:00 13.1 -11.8 20.4 265.3 78093 23:15 13.3 -11.7 25.5 286.5 69656 23:30 12.7 -9.8 31.2 287.8 56198 23:45 12.1 -8.9 36.9 257.7 67470 00:00 11.8 -8.6 21.6 270.0 69373 00:15 11.3 -8.9 17.6 255.8 63869 00:30 11.4 -8.4 31.6 268.8 65365 00:45 10.9 -8.4 34.3 278.0 64201 01:00 10.0 -14.7 8.7 328.5 64615 01:15 9.4 -15.4 25.9 301.7 42172 01:30 9.0 -16.5 15.1 335.4 42562 01:45 8.6 -16.8 24.6 306.8 41584 02:00 8.1 -17.0 9.2 286.3 42474 02:15 7.9 -16.9 18.6 319.5 42852 02:30 7.4 -17.1 8.2 291.6 41969 02:45 7.1 -17.9 16.1 330.5 39971 03:00 7.0 -18.0 17.8 321.6 39262 03:15 6.8 -18.2 16.3 335.0 38189 03:30 6.4 -18.2 6.9 327.3 37236 03:45 6.2 -18.7 12.8 5.0 35841 04:00 5.9 -18.6 12.9 311.0 33930 04:15 5.8 -18.7 13.9 304.0 33533 04:30 5.3 -18.7 15.1 313.5 33485 04:45 5.0 -18.7 14.8 313.6 34048 05:00 4.7 -18.6 17.4 327.7 34261 05:15 4.7 -18.3 14.7 313.0 35080 05:30 4.4 -18.2 25.4 337.2 36574 05:45 4.2 -17.8 14.5 314.2 37748 06:00 3.8 -17.4 17.7 296.9 37608 06:15 3.5 -16.7 9.4 327.1 36757 06:30 3.2 -16.3 12.2 308.5 32571 06:45 2.9 -15.5 11.4 31.1 30793 07:00 2.7 -14.9 7.1 323.8 29903 07:15 2.3 -14.3 9.0 297.1 28978 07:30 2.0 -13.3 7.3 357.4 28072 1.39 1566 5.11 07:45 1.8 -13.1 17.8 341.1 25351 1.11 1574 4.81 08:00 1.4 -13.2 19.7 315.1 24248 1.61 1569 5.25 08:15 1.0 -13.1 17.6 12.8 21870 1.22 1577 5.06 08:30 0.6 -13.7 21.2 13.7 21254 2.86 1590 5.49 08:45 0.1 -13.9 12.1 76.5 20615 1.66 1601 5.08 09:00 0.1 -14.6 12.6 6.3 19853 2.52 1587 4.85 09:15 0.2 -14.7 27.4 2.7 19570 2.52 1592 4.85 09:30 0.0 -15.1 13.1 10.5 22477 2.52 1592 5.01 09:45 0.1 -15.4 18.3 355.0 20738 2.73 1591 4.91 10:00 -0.2 -15.4 21.2 23.9 22156 0.64 1593 5.09 10:15 -0.3 -15.4 25.2 357.6 22816 2.26 1602 5.23 10:30 -0.6 -15.3 9.7 18.3 20935 2.73 1597 4.90 10:45 -0.7 -15.1 17.5 347.8 21248 0.71 1598 5.00 11:00 -0.8 -14.8 20.5 355.4 21803 2.26 1604 4.84 ---- Telescope Status ---- 06:45Z Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 07:05Z Enclosure off. 11:10Z Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 11:25Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 17 Counterweights at: 285 units LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Sp_01 183 lbs, 19 psi Sp_02 136 lbs, 22 psi ---- Software Used ---- getVersions, 2011-04-26 22:19:39; ----STUI software: STUI: 1.0 2011-03-15; alerts: v1_1_4; apo: v1_7; boss: v2_5_0; boss.daq: 1.3.1; boss.specMech: 3.0.1; gcamera: v1_2_3; guider: v1_3_6; hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_1_5; mcp: v6_6_6; mcp.plc: 27; platedb: v1_0_5; sop: v1_1_9; sos: v1_1_7; sos.idlspec2d: v5_4_34; tcc: 2.14.0; -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06; ---- Mirror Numbers ---- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -5.519 -5.520 Axial B: -0.028 -0.022 Axial C: 15.917 15.924 Trans D: 11.027 11.033 Lateral E: 10.6426 10.6426 Lateral F: 12.2555 12.2428 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: 14.7 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -0.014 -0.013 Axial B: -2.437 -2.442 Axial C: 13.811 13.810 Trans D: 14.181 14.184 GALILS Commanded: 1585350 1566700 1598900 -1450 -50 Actual: 1585419 1566603 1598868 -1450 -50 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -9.00 -4.00 -58.00 23.67 SecOrient: 1256.99 -9.01 -4.04 -58.11 23.32 ---- Problems in Detail ---- 01:30Z High Dust 07:30Z High Dust end.