Subject: 2.5m obslog 20130528 (MJD 56441) From: asimmons@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:29:05 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Tuesday May 28, 2013 (MJD 56441) ---- Observing Team ---- Viktor Malanushenko Audrey Oravetz ---- Observing Plan ---- 28 May 2013 56441.0 0.68 03:24 10:37 12:48 20:02 BOSS until 05:37 (2.2 h), then APOGEE (5.3 h) ---- Observing Summary ---- Very cloudy tonight. We stayed closed most of the night but opened the last couple of hours. We observed through a lot of clouds: Cart 8, plate 6906, K07_075+17_A. 2 X ABBA, missing fiber 184. cart 4, plate 5548, 060+00_A. 1 X AB, no missing fibers, faint fibers 158 and 284. We had no problems with the apogee-ql archiver tonight. ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon: ========== Checked STUI actors, checked mirror numbers, 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/darks to verify aliveness, took guider dark. Focused the collimators and took a flat and an arc. Checked out the telescope. Before collimation: motorPosition sp1: 21411, 21519, 21373; sp2: 21340, 20952, 21829; ---------- Median spectrographs temperatures: Tsp1= 14.1, Tsp2= 13.2; Outside air temperature= 19.4; 23:18:12 sp2.motor.move= 4782, 4781, 4782 23:18:25 sp1.motor.move= 4098, 4097, 4098 COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09:35 8-6906A 1.000304 -3000 -940 422 179.9 77.6 10.8 14 304 2.0 apog 09:44 8-6906A 1.000315 -3105 -1007 444 186.7 77.5 10.6 14 308 1.7 apog 09:52 8-6906A 1.000313 -3093 -976 464 193.3 77.1 10.5 14 328 1.8 apog 10:00 8-6906A 1.000312 -3083 -961 469 199.4 76.6 10.5 16 298 1.9 apog 10:09 8-6906A 1.000312 -3077 -962 463 205.0 76.0 10.4 15 318 1.9 apog 10:17 8-6906A 1.000303 -2994 -887 469 210.0 75.2 10.2 17 310 1.8 apog 10:25 8-6906A 1.000291 -2876 -788 468 214.3 74.2 10.2 15 316 1.9 apog 10:34 8-6906A 1.000302 -2978 -873 466 218.1 73.2 10.0 19 328 2.1 apog 10:55 4-5548A 1.000161 -1589 244 439 -44.1 78.1 9.9 17 321 2.5 apog 11:03 4-5548A 1.000145 -1433 375 440 -50.6 76.8 9.9 11 301 4.0 apog ---- Weather Log ---- --- Weather --- Time Inst Temp DP Dif Humid Wind Dir Dust,1um IRSC IRSCm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09:35 8-6906A 10.8 -12.2 23.0 18 14 304 1683 186.9 1645.0 2.0 apog 09:44 8-6906A 10.6 -11.8 22.4 19 14 308 1573 187.0 1676.0 1.7 apog 09:52 8-6906A 10.5 -11.6 22.1 19 14 328 1544 200.6 1647.0 1.8 apog 10:00 8-6906A 10.5 -11.4 21.9 20 16 298 1575 280.9 1594.0 1.9 apog 10:09 8-6906A 10.4 -11.3 21.7 20 15 318 1639 313.9 1578.0 1.9 apog 10:17 8-6906A 10.2 -10.8 21.0 21 17 310 1409 283.5 1535.0 1.8 apog 10:25 8-6906A 10.2 -10.4 20.6 22 15 316 1380 310.6 1591.0 1.9 apog 10:34 8-6906A 10.0 -10.2 20.2 22 19 328 1380 362.0 1549.0 2.1 apog 10:55 4-5548A 9.9 -9.9 19.8 23 17 321 1461 242.8 1743.0 2.5 apog 11:03 4-5548A 9.9 -9.2 19.1 24 11 301 1446 230.7 1753.0 4.0 apog ---- Telescope Status ---- 01:00Z - Started ventilation 09:06Z - encl25m : open 11:28Z - encl25m : closed No interlocks bypassed Status at: 11:28Z Telescope stowed at: 121.0, 30.0, 0.0 mount Instrument mounted: cartridge = 10 Counterweights at: 285 LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 71 lbs, 20 psi SP2 103 lbs, 18 psi ---- Software Used ---- Get Versions, 23:09:43 ----STUI software: STUI: 1.3b7 2013-05-17 alerts: v1_2_1 apo: v1_7 boss: v2_5_13 boss.daq: 1.3.2 boss.specMech: 3.0.1 gcamera: v1_2_13 guider: v1_4_6 hub: Tag: sdss3_v1_1_9 mcp: v6_6_16 mcp.plc: 28 mcp.azFiducialVersion: v1_109 mcp.altFiducialVersion: v1_109 mcp.rotFiducialVersion: v1_109 platedb: v1_0_5 sop: v1_2_19 sos: v1_2_0 sos.idlspec2d: v5_6_5 tcc: 2.14.0 apogee: ** not availble ** apogeecal: ** not availble ** apogeeql: v1_4_1 -----Other software sdssProcedure(sdss3): v3_06 Scripts : v3_0+trunk -- done -- ---- Mirror Numbers ---- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 5.36 5.362 Axial B: 5.211 5.212 Axial C: 5.513 5.517 Trans D: 10.358 10.353 Lateral E: 10.6299 10.6553 Lateral F: 12.2555 12.2809 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: 20 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 7.042 7.036 Axial B: 7.055 7.041 Axial C: 7.039 7.031 Trans D: 0.33 0.334 GALILS Commanded: 1576550 1594600 1580000 -3550 -6650 Actual: 1576550 1594591 1579995 -3550 -6650 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 3.00 5.00 0.00 115.81 SecOrient: 1257.01 3.00 5.01 -0.16 116.14