Subject: 2.5m obslog 20130110 (MJD 56303) From: asimmons@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:18:48 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Thursday January 10, 2013 (MJD 56303) ---- Observing Team ---- Daniel Oravetz Audrey Oravetz ---- Observing Plan ---- 10 Jan 2013 56303.0 0.05 01:28 12:54 01:48 13:16 BOSS 11.4 hours ---- Observing Summary ---- Partly to mostly cloudy during the first half of the night when we were open. The wind and clouds significantly got worse around 05:43Z, forcing us to close. We remained closed the rest of the night. We gained some signal on: Cart 18, plate 6606 - 9 exposures, but not done yet Cart 14, plate 6271 - 3 exposures, but not done yet ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon: ========== Before collimation: motorPosition sp1: 644, 641, 353; sp2: 447, -750, -853; ------------------------------ Median spectrographs temperatures: Tsp1= 4.3, Tsp2= 3.4; Outside air temperature= 2.0; 23:14:44 motorPos.sp2.move: 1152, 1148, 1152; 23:14:54 motorPos.sp1.move: -938, -939, -935; After collimation: COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -6.7 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 3.6 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp1 a=213 b=213 c=213" COLLIMATE: Issue command: "boss moveColl spec=sp2 a=213 b=213 c=213" 23:25Z - Began ventilating. Mounted cart 18. Night: ====== 01:27Z - Opened enclosure. Clouds delayed us from opening at sunset. 01:53Z - gotoField cart 18, plate 6606. Used offset 0.002, 0.002 in Ra/Dec. 01:53Z - Hartmanns 154226-27. 01:55:55 hartSp1: r=-985, b=-3.4, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 1.9 ; 01:55:55 sos.sp1AverageMove = -794 01:55:59 motorPos.sp1.move: -796, -793, -802; 01:55:59 hartSp2: r=126, b=0.4, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 1.4 ; 01:55:59 sos.sp2AverageMove = -1368 01:56:05 motorPos.sp2.move: -1368, -1362, -1368; 01:56Z - Cals 154228-29. 02:03Z - 15 min exposure. Seeing 2.0". Some clouds. Exposed during transit, so the scale had a hard time keeping up. 02:19Z - 15 min exposure. Lots of clouds. 02:35Z - 15 min exposure. 02:51Z - 15 min exposure. 03:08Z - 15 min exposure. 03:24Z - 15 min exposure. 03:41Z - 15 min exposure. Barely any signal, so we declared this BAD. 03:57Z - 15 min exposure. 04:13Z - 15 min exposure. This plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile --------------------------------------------------------------- 56302 0.31 0.95 0.40 1.32 900.9 2.97 6606-56302-01 56303 0.27 0.57 0.31 0.60 900.9 1.74 6606-56302-01 56303 0.74 1.65 0.87 1.76 900.8 5.02 6606-56302-01 56303 1.44 2.91 1.68 3.29 900.9 9.31 6606-56302-01 56303 2.25 4.41 2.62 5.28 900.9 14.56 6606-56302-01 56303 1.82 3.62 2.11 4.43 900.8 11.98 6606-56302-01 56303 0.59 1.09 0.68 1.39 900.9 3.75 6606-56302-01 56303 0.42 0.59 0.49 0.79 900.8 2.29 6606-56302-01 56303 0.50 0.77 0.61 0.92 900.8 2.80 6606-56302-01 --------------------------------------------------------------- s/n2= 8.34 16.56 9.76 19.77 8107.7 --> 54.43 04:33Z - gotoField cart 14, plate 6271. GSFOGTF. 04:35Z - Hartmanns 154239-40. 04:37:19 hartSp2: r=1066, b=3.7, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 1.0 ; 04:37:19 sos.sp2AverageMove = 892 04:37:23 motorPos.sp2.move: 893, 896, 892; 04:37:23 hartSp1: r=-929, b=-3.2, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 1.4 ; 04:37:23 sos.sp1AverageMove = -2772 04:37:31 motorPos.sp1.move: -2773, -2772, -2772; 04:38Z - Cals 154241-42. Yellow r1 WSIGMA value in arc. 04:41Z - 15 min exposure. Seeing 2.4". Lots of clouds. Windy. 04:58Z - 15 min exposure. 05:14Z - 15 min exposure. This plate is not done yet. MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile --------------------------------------------------------------- 56280 0.71 2.44 0.78 2.58 900.8 6.51 6271-56280-01 56301 1.82 6.38 1.83 6.09 900.8 16.12 6271-56280-01 56301 1.84 6.30 1.89 5.98 900.8 16.00 6271-56280-01 56301 1.21 4.29 1.23 4.03 900.8 10.75 6271-56280-01 56301 0.88 3.23 0.93 3.02 900.8 8.07 6271-56280-01 56303 0.26 0.57 0.24 0.57 900.8 1.63 6271-56280-01 56303 0.24 0.44 0.24 0.45 900.8 1.36 6271-56280-01 56303 0.23 0.38 0.22 0.38 900.8 1.21 6271-56280-01 --------------------------------------------------------------- s/n2= 7.19 24.03 7.35 23.09 7206.7 --> 61.65 05:35Z - gotoField cart 15, plate 5802. 05:40Z - Hartmanns 154246-47. 05:40:36 hartSp2: r=-286, b=-1.0, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 0.8 ; 05:40:36 sos.sp2AverageMove = -4158 05:40:49 motorPos.sp2.move: -4158, -4158, -4158; 05:40:49 hartSp1: r=353, b=1.2, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 1.1 ; 05:40:49 sos.sp1AverageMove = 1708 05:40:55 motorPos.sp1.move: 1709, 1707, 1707; After the hartmanns were completed, we decided to go ahead and close since the wind gusts increased to 37 mph, the sky was completely clouded over, and there were a few radar specks over Las Cruces heading towards us. It wasn't worth the risk for such little signal. 05:43Z - We closed the telescope, but remained ventilating. 12:12Z - There is no hope for tonight. Lots of clouds and high wind (over 50mph gusts). We started BOSS and APOGEE cals. ---- Telescope Offsets and Scale ---- --- Offsets --- (arcsec) Time Inst Az Alt Rot objArcOff guideRot calibOff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02:02 18-6606A -61.2 88.0 119.9 ( 4.8, 13.7) ( 170.7) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 02:18 18-6606A -81.0 84.7 102.3 ( 8.6, 10.1) ( -23.8) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 02:34 18-6606A -86.4 81.3 99.2 ( 8.9, 9.1) ( -35.4) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 02:51 18-6606A -89.3 77.9 98.4 ( 9.2, 8.4) ( -39.2) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 03:07 18-6606A -91.4 74.4 98.5 ( 9.6, 8.2) ( -37.6) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 03:24 18-6606A -93.2 71.0 99.0 ( 10.2, 8.1) ( -37.1) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 03:40 18-6606A -94.8 67.5 99.7 ( 9.8, 8.1) ( -38.0) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 03:56 18-6606A -96.3 64.1 100.5 ( 9.5, 7.7) ( -38.8) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 04:13 18-6606A -97.7 60.7 101.4 ( 9.5, 7.1) ( -43.4) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 04:41 14-6271A 261.8 51.2 106.5 ( 9.6, 2.6) ( -60.7) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 04:57 14-6271A 260.2 47.8 107.3 ( 10.2, 1.9) ( -69.3) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss 05:14 14-6271A 258.7 44.4 108.2 ( 10.7, 1.8) ( -71.7) ( -7.2, -7.2, 0.0) boss ---- Focus Log ---- --- Focus --- Time Inst Scale M1 M2 Focus Az Alt Temp Wind Dir -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02:02 18-6606A 0.999940 592 2140 535 -61.2 88.0 1.1 21 247 2.1 boss 02:18 18-6606A 0.999939 598 2135 524 -81.0 84.7 1.2 16 264 1.8 boss 02:34 18-6606A 0.999926 726 2233 513 -86.4 81.3 1.0 21 261 1.5 boss 02:51 18-6606A 0.999919 796 2281 502 -89.3 77.9 0.9 21 258 1.4 boss 03:07 18-6606A 0.999938 608 2173 545 -91.4 74.4 0.3 19 239 1.7 boss 03:24 18-6606A 0.999966 337 2031 623 -93.2 71.0 -0.2 23 221 1.7 boss 03:40 18-6606A 0.999973 267 1975 618 -94.8 67.5 0.1 16 230 1.7 boss 03:56 18-6606A 0.999962 369 2035 586 -96.3 64.1 0.1 23 223 1.9 boss 04:13 18-6606A 0.999951 481 2096 547 -97.7 60.7 0.1 23 213 1.8 boss 04:41 14-6271A 0.999957 423 2078 551 261.8 51.2 0.1 27 241 2.4 boss 04:57 14-6271A 0.999944 554 2196 549 260.2 47.8 0.1 23 214 2.6 boss 05:14 14-6271A 0.999961 379 2068 553 258.7 44.4 -0.2 21 233 2.6 boss ---- Weather Log ---- --- Weather --- Time Inst Temp DP Dif Humid Wind Dir Dust,1um IRSC IRSCm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02:02 18-6606A 1.1 -12.7 13.8 34 21 247 140 89.4 1575.0 2.1 boss 02:18 18-6606A 1.2 -12.1 13.3 36 16 264 141 125.4 1561.0 1.8 boss 02:34 18-6606A 1.0 -11.4 12.4 38 21 261 131 29.7 1565.0 1.5 boss 02:51 18-6606A 0.9 -11.1 12.0 40 21 258 144 26.7 1538.0 1.4 boss 03:07 18-6606A 0.3 -10.2 10.5 45 19 239 135 57.2 1549.0 1.7 boss 03:24 18-6606A -0.2 -7.2 7.0 58 23 221 278 97.0 1574.0 1.7 boss 03:40 18-6606A 0.1 -6.8 6.9 59 16 230 195 111.9 1585.0 1.7 boss 03:56 18-6606A 0.1 -7.1 7.2 58 23 223 191 144.4 1616.0 1.9 boss 04:13 18-6606A 0.1 -7.1 7.2 58 23 213 185 39.2 1573.0 1.8 boss 04:41 14-6271A 0.1 -7.2 7.3 57 27 241 233 99.1 1599.0 2.4 boss 04:57 14-6271A 0.1 -7.7 7.8 55 23 214 208 86.5 1568.0 2.6 boss 05:14 14-6271A -0.2 -6.5 6.3 62 21 233 221 124.5 1608.0 2.6 boss ---- Telescope Status ---- 23:30Z Started ventilation 01:15Z encl25m : open 05:45Z encl25m : closed No interlocks bypassed Status at: 12:14Z Telescope stowed at: 121.0, 30.0, 0.0 mount Instrument mounted: cartridge = 15 Counterweights at: 280 LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 107 lbs, 21 psi SP2 102 lbs, 22 psi ---- Software Used ---- getVersions, 2013-01-10 23:07:25 ----STUI software: STUI: 1.2 2012-12-19; alerts: v1_2_1; apo: v1_7; boss: v2_5_13; boss.daq: 1.3.2; boss.specMech: 3.0.1; gcamera: v1_2_10; guider: v1_4_1; hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_2_0; mcp: v6_6_16; mcp.plc: 28; mcp.azFiducialVersion: v1_107; mcp.altFiducialVersion: v1_107; mcp.rotFiducialVersion: v1_107; platedb: v1_0_5; sop: v1_2_16; sos: v1_2_0; sos.idlspec2d: v5_6_2; tcc: 2.14.0; apogee: ** not availble ** apogeecal: ** not availble ** apogeeql: v1_4_1 -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06; - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---- Mirror Numbers ---- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 5.361 5.357 Axial B: 5.21 5.221 Axial C: 5.515 5.516 Trans D: 10.349 10.374 Lateral E: 10.6299 10.6299 Lateral F: 12.2809 12.2428 GALILS Commanded: 11300 -650 5500 21900 13500 13050 Actual: 11300 -650 5500 21900 13500 13050 SETMIR VALUES PrimDesOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 612.35 1500.90 PrimOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 612.07 1500.38 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air temp: 2 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 7.039 7.041 Axial B: 7.044 7.059 Axial C: 7.032 7.041 Trans D: 0.337 0.33 GALILS Commanded: 1576550 1594600 1580000 -3550 -6650 Actual: 1576745 1595176 1580021 -3550 -6650 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 3.00 5.00 0.00 115.81 SecOrient: 1257.19 3.16 5.10 -0.11 116.04