Subject: Re: [sdss3-25mlog 1481] Re: 2.5m obslog 20131116 (MJD 56613)
From: Kaike Pan
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 09:18:08 -0700
Thanks Dan for catching this.
Yes, STUI status window does show object rotation angle.=20
-kaike
On Nov 17, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Dan Long wrote:
> Hi Dan,
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>   I don't know why it was the case, but the track command for that =
plate had a non zero object rotation angle (it was 131 degrees).  No =
other track command issued by gotoField in the last couple of weeks has =
anything but zero for the angle (and I'm pretty sure that is the design =
default for all plates).  In fact this plate was successfully observed =
on the night of the 23rd, and had a zero rotation angle then.
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>   I can't see any differences in the plPlugmapM files =
plPlugMapM-5579-56589-01.par and plPlugMapM-5579-56612-01.par that would =
account for the odd requested rotator angle.
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>   If you try again tonight to observe this plate, I'd keep an eye on =
the object rotator angle requested on gotoField to be sure it is zero.  =
There might be an easier way in STUI, but you can grep the TCC log on =
hub25m for the info (/data/logs/from.ttc25m)
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> grep track current.log
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> or
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> grep ObjInstAng current.log
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> 		Cheers,
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> 		   Dan
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> On Nov 17, 2013, at 4:28 AM, doravetz@apo.nmsu.edu wrote:
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>>=20
>>                      APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
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>>                                OBSERVING LOG
>>                         Saturday November 16, 2013
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>>                                 (MJD 56613)
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>> ----  Observing Team ----
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>> Audrey Oravetz
>> Dan Oravetz
>> John Parejko
>> Paul Harding
>> Kaike Pan
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>> ---- Observing Plan ----
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>> 16 Nov 2013  56613.0  APOGEE  11.8 hours  Flexible Night Engineering
>>=20
>> ---- Observing Summary ----
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>> Mostly clear skies, but windy throughout the night and high humidity =
during the
>> last half of the night. The majority of the night was lost to wind =
and/or humidity.
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>> Observed:
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>> Cart. 3, 6560, 105-45_A: 1XABBA @ 500s each; 3 faint fibers in dome =
flat
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>> We were not able to acquire the field for cartridge 5, 5579. See Log =
for
>> details. Can the day crew please verify that the guide fibers are =
plugged into
>> the proper holes and that there are no broken guide fiber alignment =
pins? Peter,
>> can you verify that the appropriate plPlugMap file was used?
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