Subject: 2.5m obslog 20120127 (MJD 55954) From: doravetz@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:15:17 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Friday January 27, 2012 (MJD 55954) ---- Observing Team ---- Audrey Oravetz Dan Oravetz Kaike Pan (afternoon) ---- Observing Plan ---- BOSS ---- Observing Summary ---- The night was lost to clouds and high humidity. We tried to get a few exposures on cart. 10 and cart. 12 at the beginning of the night, but the S/N was too low and all exposures were declared 'bad.' ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon: ----------- All systems and Actor were checked, no problem to report. BOSS spectro collimation was checked with cart 10. No adjustment was done. When R1 and R2 were in focus, B1 off by -5.5, B2 off by 8.5 degrees. motorPosition sp1: 32299, 32628, 28742; sp2: 28937, 28727, 29535; Median spectrographs temperatures: Tsp1= 6.2, Tsp2= 5.3; Outside air temperature= 4.4; 23:00Z started ventilation. Night ===== 00:30Z - Opened to partly cloudy skies. Filled the cameras. 00:37Z - Started APOGEE calibration sequence. When starting DIMM, the program launches and almost immediately crashes with the accompanying error message "DIMM.exe has generated errors. A log has been created." The DIMM monitor is still flaky as well. Cart. 10, 4346 ************** 00:54Z - GSOGTF. 00:57Z - Hartmanns. 00:57:08 boss exposure 4.0, file=139222 00:58:01 boss exposure 4.0, file=139223 00:59:01 hartSp1: r=-300, b=-1.0, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 4.8 ; 00:59:01 sos.sp1AverageMove = 4328 00:59:13 motorPos.sp1.move: 4328, 4329, 4327; 00:59:13 hartSp2: r=662, b=2.3, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 4.0 ; 00:59:13 sos.sp2AverageMove = 398 00:59:16 motorPos.sp2.move: 397, 398, 397; 00:59Z - Cals. 00:59:37 boss exposure 4.0, file=139224 01:01:12 boss exposure 30.0, file=139225 01:41Z - Science. 01:41:19 boss exposure 900.0, file=139226 01:57:45 boss exposure 900.0, file=139227 We had clouds and these exposures were very low S/N, so they were declared 'bad.' Cart. 12, 5705 ************** 02:17Z - GSOGTF. 02:19Z - Hartmanns. 02:19:41 boss exposure 4.0, file=139228 02:20:31 boss exposure 4.0, file=139229 02:22:14 hartSp2: r=382, b=1.3, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 3.0 ; 02:22:14 sos.sp2AverageMove = -2523 02:22:21 motorPos.sp2.move: -2524, -2518, -2523; 02:22:21 hartSp1: r=308, b=1.1, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 3.5 ; 02:22:22 sos.sp1AverageMove = 1157 02:22:27 motorPos.sp1.move: 1157, 1155, 1157; 02:22Z - Cals. 02:22:48 boss exposure 4.0, file=139230 02:24:23 boss exposure 30.0, file=139231 02:26Z - Science. 02:26:43 boss exposure 900.0, file=139232 (Declared 'bad'; red b2 xsigma) 02:43:05 boss exposure 900.0, file=139233 (Aborted this exposure because we noticed a red b2 xsigma value in the flat.) 02:47Z - Took another set of Hartmanns because of the red b2 xsigma value. 02:45:55 boss exposure 4.0, file=139234 02:46:45 boss exposure 4.0, file=139235 02:47:43 hartSp2: r=919, b=3.1, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 2.8 ; 02:47:43 sos.sp2AverageMove = -1458 02:47:49 motorPos.sp2.move: -1457, -1453, -1458; 02:47:49 hartSp1: r=235, b=0.8, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 3.3 ; 02:47:49 sos.sp1AverageMove = -369 02:47:53 motorPos.sp1.move: -369, -369, -371; 02:49Z - Cals. 02:49:03 boss exposure 4.0, file=139236 02:50:37 boss exposure 30.0, file=139237 03:03Z - Science. 03:03:00 boss exposure 900.0, file=139238 We still had clouds and got very low S/N. This exposure was also declared bad. We monitored the weather and the guide stars through the clouds. 04:28Z - The clouds had grown thicker and the forecast updated to "flurries possible." Since we couldn't see stars, we decided just to close, but remained ventilating. 05:00Z - The humidity spiked, so we stopped ventilation. 12:08Z - Still cloudy and humid. Called it a night. ---- Telescope Offsets and Scale ---- --- Offsets --- (arcsec) Time Inst Az Alt Rot objArcOff guideRot calibOff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01:40 10-4346A -21.7 53.0 161.9 ( 0.4, 4.1) ( -9.1) ( -0.5, 9.6, 0.0) boss 01:56 10-4346A -28.0 51.5 156.8 ( 0.1, 4.0) ( -13.4) ( -0.5, 9.6, 0.0) boss 02:25 12-5705A 282.0 49.0 120.7 ( 6.6, 2.7) ( -86.3) ( -0.5, 9.6, 0.0) boss 02:41 12-5705A 279.1 45.6 119.7 ( 8.0, 2.6) (-101.8) ( -0.5, 9.6, 0.0) boss 03:01 12-5705A 275.9 41.5 119.0 ( 7.5, 2.7) (-110.4) ( -0.5, 9.6, 0.0) boss ---- Focus Log ---- --- Focus --- Time Inst Scale M1 M2 Focus Az Alt Temp Wind Dir -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01:40 10-4346A 1.000070 -694 1145 547 -21.7 53.0 1.3 11 25 1.9 boss 01:56 10-4346A 1.000060 -595 1208 526 -28.0 51.5 1.8 12 31 2.3 boss 02:25 12-5705A 1.000060 -589 1212 516 282.0 49.0 1.9 12 20 1.6 boss 02:41 12-5705A 1.000084 -831 1041 535 279.1 45.6 1.7 13 29 1.7 boss 03:01 12-5705A 1.000097 -955 971 552 275.9 41.5 1.4 14 50 1.8 boss ---- Weather Log ---- --- Weather --- Time Inst Temp DP Dif Humid Wind Dir Dust,1um IRSC IRSCm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01:40 10-4346A 1.3 -8.2 9.5 49 11 25 168 85.5 1670.0 1.9 boss 01:56 10-4346A 1.8 -9.6 11.4 42 12 31 263 84.0 1650.0 2.3 boss 02:25 12-5705A 1.9 -11.1 13.0 37 12 20 177 54.6 1636.0 1.6 boss 02:41 12-5705A 1.7 -11.9 13.6 35 13 29 155 45.4 1678.0 1.7 boss 03:01 12-5705A 1.4 -11.4 12.8 37 14 50 178 50.8 1630.0 1.8 boss ---- Telescope Status ---- Status at: 12:13:07 Telescope stowed at: 121.0, 30.0, 0.0 mount Instrument mounted: cartridge = 12 Counterweights at: 282, 282, 283, 283 LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 277.20 lbs, 20.95 psi SP2 274.70 lbs, 17.25 psi ---- Software Used ---- ----STUI software: STUI: 1.1.1 2011-09-23; alerts: v1_1_4; apo: v1_7; boss: v2_5_4; boss.daq: 1.3.2; boss.specMech: 3.0.1; gcamera: v1_2_7; guider: v1_3_17; hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_1_8; mcp: v6_6_11; mcp.plc: 28; mcp.azFiducialVersion: v1_100; mcp.altFiducialVersion: v1_100; mcp.rotFiducialVersion: v1_100; platedb: v1_0_5; sop: v1_2_11; sos: v1_2_0; sos.idlspec2d: v5_5_3; tcc: 2.14.0; -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_07; Setting up: idlspec2d Flavor: Linux64 Version: v5_5_7 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_1 Setting up: |opscore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_15_1 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_26 Setting up: |idl Flavor: Linux64 Version: 7.1 Setting up: |dust Flavor: Linux64 Version: v0_1 Setting up: actorcore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_15_1 Setting up: |opscore Flavor: Linux64 Version: v1_15_1 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: -0.13 -0.127 Axial B: 0.068 0.08 Axial C: -0.007 -0.004 Trans D: 0.41 0.40935 Lateral E: 10.6807 10.6553 Lateral F: 12.2809 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: 4.1 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -8.408 -8.408 Axial B: -8.687 -8.705 Axial C: -12.144 -12.158 Trans D: -10.025 -10.018 GALILS Commanded: 1577450 1611550 1562700 -9050 -6750 Actual: 1577438 1608726 1558956 -9050 -6750 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 13.00 8.00 -60.00 174.63 SecOrient: 1255.25 13.66 6.99 -61.05 174.25