Subject: 2.5m obslog 20110916 (MJD 55821) From: dmbiz@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:43:42 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Friday September 16, 2011 (MJD 55821) ---- Observing Team ---- Alaina Shelden Dmitry Bizyaev ---- Observing Plan ---- 16 Sep 2011 55821.0 0.70 02:31 11:25 19:11 04:06 MARVELS/APOGEE 9.9 hours Probably, also, we should finish pointing model. APOGEE Observing Plan: 13 Sep 2011 here are the desired plates in chronological order of observing window. Plate 4941 (M15) is highest priority. 5228 030+00_111 sky frames 5238 060+00_111 4941 M15 5218 N7789 5258 120+00_111 5095 N188 5282 PAL1_111 Backup: Light clouds: 4914 150/15 plates Moderate clouds: ASDAF targets see https://trac.sdss3.org.wiki.APOGEE/ObservingASDAF The Moon Proximity Test The test was done under clear sky on 9/12. The team likes to have it repeated under light/mid cloud sky condition. 37 08:09 02590037 Object ObjName 47 A c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) 38 08:18 02590038 Object ObjName 47 B c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) 39 08:26 02590039 Object ObjName 47 B c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) 40 08:34 02590040 Object ObjName 47 A c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) 41 08:43 02590041 Object ObjName 47 A c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) Clear sky to this point. Next exposure got thin clouds at last few reads. 42 08:51 02590042 Object ObjName 47 B c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) Thin clouds in the beginning of this frame only 43 08:59 02590043 Object ObjName 47 B c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) Clear sky 44 09:08 02590044 Object ObjName 47 A c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) 45 09:10 02590045 DomeFlat ObjName 5 A None 46 09:13 02590046 Dark ObjName 10 A None 47 09:15 02590047 Dark ObjName 10 A None 09:13Z cart 7 plate 5282 (PAL1_111) is mounted 09:15:23 loadCart: ct=7, pl=5282, sd=A; 09:15:58 sop.gotoField = running; GSOGTF Clear sky, rather high humidity, seeing ~ 1.3 - 1.4" ---- Observing Summary ---- Beginning of the night: approaching thunderstorm, severe weather forecast. Then high humidity. After ~ 4:30Z clear and allowable humidity. Closed early because of high humidity. Mirrors home/relaxed in the first part of the night. Rolled back to v1_96 version of the fiducial tables to handle APOGEE observations. APOGEE plates exposed: 1 4941 M15 - ABBAABBA 8 5218 N7789 - ABBAABBA 4 5095 N188 - ABBAABBA 7 5282 PAL1_111 - one A completed and then interrupted - not done APOGEE QL does not bundle and does not sum S/N in the QL window (see log for description in detail). Apogee ql window stopped updating S/N plots after frame #27. ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon checkout didn't show any surprises. We delay starting ventilation because APO is right at the edge of severe thunderstorm on weather maps. 00:45Z Kaike recommended to start home/relax mirrors. Then see what the weather shows. 02:45Z finished home-relaxing mirrors. The sky is clear, but humidity is climbing up. We delay ventilation and opening. 03:20Z touch tests shows some humid surfaces outside. Dew point is ~2.9C, sometimes lower. 04:12Z humidity trend changed. We started ventilation. 04:22Z rolled back to v1_96 fiducial table. MCP rebooted. Reconnected to STUI. 04:38Z engineering camera replaced by cartridge 1. Enclosure opened. Secondary BOSS dewars filled, then primary ones filled. 05:02Z gotoField with cart 1 plate 4941. Guider flats taken automatically (for this first exposure). No GS, but we applied the "standard offset" -0.005,+0.002 and got stars to the field. Clear sky, seeing ~ 1.3". 5:15:41 client.v472.guider 193 gcamera f text="command failed: RuntimeError('bad state=-2',) at /home/sdss3/products/Linux64/gcameraICC/v1_2_3/lib/gcameraICC/alta/altacam.py:257" 05:15:41 CmdDone: client.v472.guider 193 gcamera expose time=7.000000 05:15:41 APO.alaina.sop 673 guider w text="Failed to take exposure" 05:15:41 APO.alaina.sop 673 guider i guideState=failed 05:15:41 APO.alaina.sop 673 guider f guideState=failed 05:15:41 CmdDone: APO.alaina.sop 673 guider on time=5 05:16:25 APO.alaina 88 gcamera f text="command failed: RuntimeError('bad imaging state=3',) at /home/sdss3/products/Linux64/gcameraICC/v1_2_3/lib/gcameraICC/alta/altacam.py:241" 05:16:25 CmdDone: APO.alaina 88 gcamera expose time=1 05:16:26 .tcc 0 tcc I TrackAdvTime=3.57 -- issued: gcamera reconnect -- Now it guides ok. Stars did not shift, no time lost. 05:20Z noticed that APOGEE QL is not bundling. Issued recommended commands The apogeeql actor was alive, idl and python processes are there. The apogeeql reported that it is running (status). /data/apogee/archive/55821/ directory is not updating. apogeeql stop / start issued. Note that we see new apRaw spectra coming, but there is nothing collected at /data/apogee/archive/55821/ E-mail with description of the problem sent urgently to Stephane and Jon. No answer. Called Stephane - does not answer. Called Jon Holtzman: Jon said until we have no idl processes and there are fresh files in /data-ql/data/55821, we are fine and he can re-bundle the data in the morning. Clear sky during the exposure, seeing ~ 1.1 - 1.3" Note that the accumulated S/N is impossible to guess: the window in STUI shows the data from yesterday 3 02590019 511.1 48 A 30.0 4 02590020 319.4 30 B 23.0 5 02590021 308.8 29 A 22.5 6 02590020 308.8 29 B 23.1 7 02590021 308.8 29 A 23.1 8 02580017 308.8 29 A 290.1 9 02580018 308.8 29 B 290.1 10 02580019 308.8 29 A 290.1 Done+Pred 37381.1 8628.8 06:18Z sky flats started 11 05:19 02590011 Object ObjName 47 A c 1 plate 4941 M15 12 05:27 02590012 Object ObjName 47 B c 1 plate 4941 M15 13 05:36 02590013 Object ObjName 47 B c 1 plate 4941 M15 14 05:44 02590014 Object ObjName 47 A c 1 plate 4941 M15 15 05:52 02590015 Object ObjName 47 A c 1 plate 4941 M15 16 06:01 02590016 Object ObjName 47 B c 1 plate 4941 M15 17 06:09 02590017 Object ObjName 47 B c 1 plate 4941 M15 18 06:17 02590018 Object ObjName 47 A c 1 plate 4941 M15 19 06:20 02590019 Object ObjName 14 A sky flat, offset 0.01 degree RA 20 06:23 02590020 Object ObjName 14 B sky flat, offset 0.01 degree RA 21 06:25 02590021 Object ObjName 14 B sky flat, offset 0.01 degree RA 22 06:28 02590022 Object ObjName 14 A sky flat, offset 0.01 degree RA 23 06:29 02590023 DomeFlat ObjName 5 A None 24 06:33 02590024 Dark ObjName 10 A None 25 06:35 02590025 Dark ObjName 10 A None 06:33Z cart 8 plate 5218 N7789 is mounted 06:35:34 loadCart: ct=8, pl=5218, sd=A; 06:35:55 sop.gotoField = running; No GS. Same magic offset applied. Clear sky, seeing ~ 1.4 - 1.6". 26 06:50 02590026 Object ObjName 47 A c 8 plate 5218 N7789 27 06:58 02590027 Object ObjName 47 B c 8 plate 5218 N7789 28 07:06 02590028 Object ObjName 47 B c 8 plate 5218 N7789 29 07:15 02590029 Object ObjName 47 A c 8 plate 5218 N7789 30 07:23 02590030 Object ObjName 47 A c 8 plate 5218 N7789 31 07:31 02590031 Object ObjName 47 B c 8 plate 5218 N7789 32 07:40 02590032 Object ObjName 47 B c 8 plate 5218 N7789 33 07:48 02590033 Object ObjName 47 A c 8 plate 5218 N7789 34 07:50 02590034 DomeFlat ObjName 5 A None 35 07:54 02590035 Dark ObjName 10 A None 36 07:56 02590036 Dark ObjName 10 A None 07:55Z cart 4 plate 5095 is mounted (N188 NOCC) 07:56:21 loadCart: ct=4, pl=5095, sd=A; 07:56:49 sop.gotoField = running; GSOGTF Clear sky, seeing ~ 1.5 - 1.8" 48 09:29 02590048 Object ObjName 47 A c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) 49 09:33 02590049 Object ObjName 47 B c 4 plate 5095 N188(NoCC) The exposure #49 was interrupted in the middle: we got dew point below 1C of the M2 temperature. We got to close. 50 09:36 02590050 DomeFlat ObjName 5 B None 51 09:49 02590051 Dark ObjName 10 B None 52 09:51 02590052 Dark ObjName 10 B None 09:43Z enclosure on, ventilation stopped. After that dew point only decreased, surfaces around telescope were wet in the morning. 11:37Z we call it a night at this point. startfillseq issued for BOSS spectrographs. APOGEE morning calibrations started. ---- Telescope Offsets and Scale ---- --- Offsets --- (arcsec) Time Inst Az Alt Rot objArcOff guideRot calibOff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06:43 8-5218A 169.4 65.6 -16.2 (-20.0, -0.8) ( 26.0) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 07:36 8-5218A 187.5 65.9 11.6 (-18.1, -1.3) ( 29.0) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 08:01 4-5095A 179.8 37.5 -1.5 ( -5.0, 3.3) ( 52.4) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) 09:26 7-5282A 174.6 42.3 -25.8 ( -4.9, 3.2) ( 7.0) ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) ---- Focus Log ---- --- Focus --- Time Inst Scale M1 M2 Focus Az Alt Temp Wind Dir -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06:43 8-5218A 1.000151 -1490 337 432 169.4 65.6 10.4 9 267 1.5 07:36 8-5218A 1.000181 -1790 36 380 187.5 65.9 10.4 9 267 1.5 08:01 4-5095A 1.000136 -1342 516 402 179.8 37.5 10.3 9 262 1.6 09:26 7-5282A 1.000165 -1637 248 385 174.6 42.3 10.2 11 264 1.4 ---- Weather Log ---- Wind 1 um DIMM IRSC Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Dir Dust fwhm mean sigma 18:00 9.6 9.7 4.3 223.1 35179 18:15 9.9 9.7 10.9 237.6 55770 18:30 10.2 9.9 11.2 240.8 84856 18:45 10.3 10.2 11.2 234.8 40569 19:00 9.4 9.4 13.4 222.6 914 19:15 9.6 9.4 7.5 261.6 920 19:30 9.8 9.5 9.2 258.8 918 19:45 10.3 9.9 9.2 244.6 880 20:00 9.7 9.6 3.0 250.7 855 20:15 11.3 9.4 9.2 209.3 823 20:30 12.0 9.6 11.0 259.3 703 20:45 12.9 10.2 11.7 256.3 712 21:00 12.3 9.9 15.8 216.9 689 21:15 14.2 10.1 13.6 245.3 674 21:30 12.4 9.6 10.6 236.1 716 21:45 12.0 9.2 11.3 259.6 755 22:00 12.9 9.2 14.4 224.4 728 22:15 13.1 9.1 17.8 212.5 789 22:30 11.9 9.0 12.8 218.1 803 22:45 12.6 7.3 9.5 238.3 756 23:00 12.4 8.4 13.3 244.3 767 23:15 12.4 7.2 11.5 244.8 823 23:30 12.6 8.1 13.3 223.3 848 23:45 12.8 8.3 14.3 226.1 862 00:00 13.1 8.7 10.1 242.0 870 00:15 12.6 7.8 12.2 235.5 948 00:30 12.0 7.6 15.8 214.5 919 00:45 11.3 8.1 12.3 248.3 1059 01:00 11.2 8.0 12.6 239.9 1129 01:15 11.0 7.7 12.2 240.5 1024 01:30 11.0 7.5 8.5 261.6 1102 01:45 10.9 7.4 8.1 257.7 1081 02:00 10.5 7.3 10.2 248.8 1150 02:15 10.4 7.4 8.1 257.3 1152 02:30 10.1 7.4 10.1 245.8 1154 02:45 10.0 7.4 8.6 255.3 1139 03:00 10.5 7.3 8.8 231.9 1138 03:15 10.9 7.4 11.7 237.6 1111 03:30 10.8 7.3 12.7 239.4 1150 03:45 11.1 6.5 8.6 264.1 1087 04:00 10.9 6.4 11.6 264.7 946 04:15 10.8 6.5 10.8 265.9 892 04:30 10.9 6.7 12.0 239.6 969 1.39 1500 6.60 04:45 10.8 6.8 13.5 266.1 936 0.62 1499 6.90 05:00 10.7 6.9 12.5 246.5 917 1.48 1498 5.70 05:15 10.8 7.0 11.7 258.1 985 0.72 1498 5.56 05:30 10.9 7.0 10.0 271.6 919 1.98 1501 6.00 05:45 10.6 6.9 9.7 253.5 984 1.92 1501 6.04 06:00 10.9 7.0 6.7 267.7 964 0.81 1501 5.69 06:15 10.8 6.5 9.4 268.7 943 1.15 1514 5.99 06:30 10.8 6.4 10.6 267.9 879 1.44 1515 6.47 06:45 10.6 6.6 10.3 270.8 868 0.96 1506 5.60 07:00 10.1 6.7 10.2 271.1 892 1.11 1512 5.71 07:15 10.4 6.7 5.9 270.1 901 0.75 1511 5.27 07:30 10.5 6.6 8.9 268.5 851 1.51 1514 5.48 07:45 10.6 6.9 9.6 265.3 925 1.11 1513 5.38 08:00 10.5 7.0 9.5 265.1 983 1.52 1518 5.28 08:15 10.5 7.1 10.3 261.8 920 1.21 1493 5.42 08:30 10.4 7.2 10.9 264.9 979 1.12 1495 5.19 08:45 10.4 7.1 13.5 266.3 895 1.07 1503 5.34 09:00 10.5 7.1 10.3 266.3 953 1.42 1510 95.73 09:15 10.3 7.1 11.5 250.8 940 0.85 1495 5.71 09:30 10.2 7.2 12.5 265.1 965 0.99 1466 56.25 09:45 10.1 7.2 12.8 264.4 988 1.55 1500 24.13 10:00 10.3 7.2 13.1 263.5 959 1.55 1494 5.94 10:15 10.1 7.2 13.9 262.6 967 10:30 10.2 7.1 13.7 260.2 944 10:45 10.0 7.2 12.5 262.5 937 11:00 9.9 7.2 12.8 255.7 966 11:15 9.9 7.1 12.1 257.9 940 11:30 9.9 7.1 12.1 245.2 984 ---- Telescope Status ---- 04:12Z - Began ventilation. Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 04:38Z - Enclosure off. 09:43Z - Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 11:40Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 7 Counterweights at: 283 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro2 204 lbs, 17 psi Spectro1 111 lbs, 22 psi ---- Software Used ---- getVersions, 2011-09-17 00:13:03 ----STUI software: STUI: 1.1 2011-09-09; alerts: v1_2_0; apo: v1_7; boss: v2_5_0; boss.daq: 1.3.1; boss.specMech: 3.0.1; gcamera: v1_2_3; guider: v1_3_10; hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_1_8; mcp: v6_6_10; mcp.plc: 28; mcp.azFiducialVersion: v1_97; mcp.altFiducialVersion: v1_97; mcp.rotFiducialVersion: v1_97; platedb: v1_0_5; sop: v1_2_8; sos: v1_1_7; sos.idlspec2d: v5_4_37; tcc: 2.14.0; -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06; Setting up: idlspec2d Flavor: Linux64 Version: v5_4_37 Setting up: |elodie Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_3 Setting up: |spinspect Flavor: Linux64 Version: start Setting up: |specflat Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_8 Failed to find speclog trunk for flavor Linux64 Setting up: |speclog Flavor: NULL 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_13_3 Setting up: |opscore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_14 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_7 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_13_3 Setting up: |opscore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_14 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: -0.128 -0.127 Axial B: 0.07 0.08 Axial C: -0.008 -0.004 Trans D: 0.4092 0.40935 Lateral E: 10.6807 10.6553 Lateral F: 12.2809 12.2809 GALILS Commanded: 11300 -650 5500 19600 14350 13950 Actual: 11300 -650 5500 19600 14350 13950 SETMIR VALUES PrimDesOrient: 0.00 -24.31 11.30 612.35 1325.90 PrimOrient: 0.00 -24.31 11.40 612.32 1325.79 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air temp: 11.3 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -8.408 -8.408 Axial B: -8.702 -8.705 Axial C: -12.156 -12.158 Trans D: -10.03 -10.018 GALILS Commanded: 1577450 1611550 1562700 -9050 -6750 Actual: 1577444 1611554 1562698 -9050 -6750 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 13.00 8.00 -60.00 174.63 SecOrient: 1257.00 13.01 8.00 -60.39 174.68 PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -0.128 -0.127 Axial B: 0.074 0.08 Axial C: -0.007 -0.004 Trans D: 0.4093 0.40935 Lateral E: 10.6553 10.6553 Lateral F: 12.2682 12.2809 GALILS Commanded: 11300 -650 5500 19600 14350 13950 Actual: 11300 -650 5500 19600 14350 13950 SETMIR VALUES PrimDesOrient: 0.00 -24.31 11.30 612.35 1325.90 PrimOrient: 0.00 -24.31 11.40 612.32 1325.79 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air temp: 10.6 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -8.409 -8.408 Axial B: -8.705 -8.705 Axial C: -12.157 -12.158 Trans D: -10.028 -10.018 GALILS Commanded: 1577450 1611550 1562700 -9050 -6750 Actual: 1577406 1611548 1562698 -9050 -6750 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 13.00 8.00 -60.00 174.63 SecOrient: 1256.98 13.00 8.02 -60.37 174.69 PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -0.128 -0.127 Axial B: 0.074 0.08 Axial C: -0.007 -0.004 Trans D: 0.4093 0.40935 Lateral E: 10.6553 10.6553 Lateral F: 12.2682 12.2809 GALILS Commanded: 11300 -650 5500 19600 14350 13950 Actual: 11300 -650 5500 19600 14350 13950 SETMIR VALUES PrimDesOrient: 0.00 -24.31 11.30 612.35 1325.90 PrimOrient: 0.00 -24.31 11.40 612.32 1325.79 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air temp: 10.6 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -8.409 -8.408 Axial B: -8.705 -8.705 Axial C: -12.157 -12.158 Trans D: -10.028 -10.018 GALILS Commanded: 1577450 1611550 1562700 -9050 -6750 Actual: 1577463 1611548 1562685 -9050 -6750 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 13.00 8.00 -60.00 174.63 SecOrient: 1257.00 13.01 8.00 -60.38 174.68