Subject: 2.5m obslog 20131013 (MJD 56579) From: kpan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:34:05 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Sunday October 13, 2013 (MJD 56579) ---- Observing Team ---- Dan Oravetz Kaike Pan Support: Jon Brinkmann (via phone) ---- Observing Plan ---- 13 Oct 2013 56579.0 APOGEE until 08:40 (7.3 h), then BOSS (3.3 h) ---- Observing Summary ---- Radar return, a few drops of rain, high humidity kept us closing for the entire night, Note to engineers and developers: 1: SP2BlueIonPump Latched warning: We had SP2blueIonPumpLacthed warning. An "boss ackErrors" was issued, and latched error disappear from alerts window, But came back two minutes later. We went down to the enclosure, and read voltages for B2. There was no red light, but all voltages were at lower end, ranged from 97.2 (+10 CCD) to 99.8. 2. APOGEE-ql needs to be restarted during afternoon checkout. 3. We were not be able to take mirror numbers during afternoon checkout. Called Jon and he confirmed the problem is in LUI, which will not affect night operation. ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon ========= There were four BOSS voltage warnings in Alerts upon arrival. They would sometimes disappear altogether, or sometimes only a subset of these four would be displayed: Warn boss.SP2B2VSc1Read Reported by camCheck Warn boss.SP2R1VSc2Read Reported by camCheck Warn boss.SP1R0VDD1Read Reported by camCheck Warn boss.SP2R0VSc1Read Reported by camCheck The apogeeql actor was unresponsive and needed to be restarted. All other STUI actors were responsive. Checked upper and lower telescope enclosure, checked fiducials, cleaned APOGEE gang connector and took APOGEE evening cals, verified APOGEE archiving, took a few BOSS biases to verify aliveness, took guider dark sequence. APOGEE evening cals results: i UT File/Exp Imtype Nread Dth Ct-Plate Archiv Offset Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 22:04 10170001 Dark 3 A 16-3647 a-b-c - None 2 22:08 10170002 Dark 60 A 16-3647 a-b-c - None 3 22:19 10170003 QuartzFlat 10 A 16-3647 a-b-c - None 4 22:21 10170004 ArcLamp-Thar 12 A 16-3647 a-b-c -0.08 None 5 22:23 10170005 ArcLamp-Une 40 A 16-3647 a-b-c - None 6 22:30 10170006 ArcLamp-Thar 12 B 16-3647 a-b-c 0.38 None 7 22:32 10170007 ArcLamp-Une 40 B 16-3647 a-b-c - None 8 22:40 10170008 Dark 60 A 16-3647 a-b-c - None We were unsuccessful in taking mirror numbers. See the Mirror Numbers section for the error. We contacted Jon B. about this issue. Focused BOSS spectrographs using cart. 16 since cart. 11 was not available. Median spectrographs temperatures: Tsp1= 9.9, Tsp2= 9.1 Outside air temperature= 15.0 No adjustments made to blue focus rings. COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -3.5 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 3.2 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 256 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 384 steps for spectro-2 Mounted cartridge 6 for the beginning of the night. 23:15Z - Started ventilation. Cloudy, but no radar returns in the county and humidity is at acceptable level. Night ===== 00:30Z: Nearby radar and threaten clouds. Delay opening. 05:02Z: We saw SP2blueIonPumpLacthed warning. 05:02:13 .boss 154993 boss w SP2BlueIonPumpLatched=1381721713.43 05:02:13 .boss 154993 boss w camCheck=SP2BlueIonPumpLatched. an "boss ackErrors" was issued, and latched error disappear from alerts window. But came back two minutes later. We went down to the enclosure, and read voltages for B2. There was no red light, but all of them were at lower end, ranged from 97.2 (+10 CCD) to 99.8. 11:40Z call it a night. APOGEE morning calibrations is in progress. ---- Telescope Status ---- 23:15Z Started ventilation encl25m : never open encl25m : closed No interlocks bypassed Status at: 11:40 Telescope stowed at: 121.0, 30.0, 0.0 mount Instrument mounted: cartridge = 6 Counterweights at: LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 123 lbs, 20.7 psi SP2 109 lbs, 20 psi ---- Software Used ---- ----STUI software---- STUI: 1.3 2013-09-05 alerts: v1_3_0 apo: v1_8 boss: v2_5_14 boss.daq: 1.3.2 boss.specMech: 3.0.4 gcamera: v1_3_6 guider: v1_5_5 hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_2_0 mcp: NOSVN mcp.plc: 29 mcp.azFiducialVersion: v1_110 mcp.altFiducialVersion: v1_110 mcp.rotFiducialVersion: v1_110 platedb: v1_1_0 sop: v1_3_1 sos: v1_2_0 sos.idlspec2d: v5_6_7a tcc: 2.14.0 apogee: -not availble- apogeecal: -not availble- apogeeql: v1_5_3 ----Other software---- sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06 APO-local scripts : v4_4 ---- Mirror Numbers ---- Tried to take mirror numbers many times during afternoon checkout, but was unsuccessful in doing so. All attempts resulted in the following error, which we emailed Jon B. about: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/jb/bin/m4l.py", line 278, in TCC reply = tn.read_until (': UserNum=', TIMEOUT) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/telnetlib.py", line 324, in read_until return self.read_very_lazy() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/telnetlib.py", line 400, in read_very_lazy raise EOFError, 'telnet connection closed' EOFError: telnet connection closed Connection to tcc25m.apo.nmsu.edu prematurely closed Reply: License has terminated Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/jb/bin/m4l.py", line 402, in ? m4l() File "/home/jb/bin/m4l.py", line 68, in __init__ self.m4lprint (nominalMigs, tpm, tcc) File "/home/jb/bin/m4l.py", line 76, in m4lprint reply += 'Scale: ' + tcc['ScaleFac'] + '\n' TypeError: unsubscriptable object