Subject: 2.5m obslog 20130601 (MJD 56445) From: marchante@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 10:28:36 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Saturday June 01, 2013 (MJD 56445) ---- Observing Team ---- Garrett Ebelke Moses Marchante ---- Observing Plan ---- 1 Jun 2013 56445.0 0.40 03:27 10:35 13:07 20:16 BOSS until 08:07 (4.7 h), then APOGEE (2.8 h) ---- Observing Summary ---- During afternoon checkout, I was unable to load cartridge 11. Also, the guider would not take a dark or flat. See Problems in Detail. Boss: cart: plate: 11 6967 not done 12 6983 not done Apogee: cart: plate: 6 6893 2x ABBA faint: 15, 34, 133, 297 05:53:26 encl25m : closed; closed due to high dust... looks like pine pollen, dust with yellow tint.. thick build up on flat surfaces and cars 07:52:27 encl25m : open; dust dropped.. 09:12Z dust on rise again.. please check mirror for pollen build up.... 09:25:28 encl25m : closed; 2 files that did not get archived: 22 09:19 08830022 DomeFlat 5 A None x-x-x 25 10:23 08830025 Dark 60 A None x-x-x ---- Observing Log ---- ----- Afternoon ----- 23:32Z - Started Afternoon Checkout Before Collimation: ------------------------------ Median spectrographs temperatures: Tsp1= 14.1, Tsp2= 13.3; Outside air temperature= 21.6; Per Kaike's request, the B2 focus ring was moved +3 degrees. Collimation: COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -7.0 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -8.8 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 2049 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 2775 steps for spectro-2 red cameras adjusted Target B1: -2 B2: +1 COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -0.2 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -0.2 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of -128 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 0 steps for spectro-2 Collimation Finished motorPosition sp1: 30661, 30773, 30617; sp2: 29054, 28657, 29544; ---------- Median spectrographs temperatures: Tsp1= 13.7, Tsp2= 13.0; Outside air temperature= 21.8; Afternoon checkout complete, everything is ready to observe. ======================================================================= Night: ---------- 02:56:55 loadCart: ct=11, pl=6967, sd=A; GSOGTF 02:50:37 sop.gotoField = running; 02:53:59 hartSp1: r=137, b=0.5, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 14.4 02:53:59 sos.sp1AverageMove = 1463 02:54:05 sp1.motor.move= 1463, 1463, 1463 02:54:05 hartSp2: r=382, b=1.3, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 13.5 02:54:05 sos.sp2AverageMove = -146 02:54:08 sp2.motor.move= -149, -146, -146 03:25:31 boss exposure 900.0, file=162609 Seeing 2.0" clear sky 03:41:54 boss exposure 900.0, file=162610 03:58:16 boss exposure 900.0, file=162611 04:14:38 boss exposure 900.0, file=162612 04:31:00 boss exposure 900.0, file=162613 (S/N)^2 accumulated for plate 6967 ---- logfile-56445.html ---- --------------------------------------------------------------- MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile --------------------------------------------------------------- 56445 1.85 5.96 1.54 5.12 900.8 14.47 6967-56445-01 56445 2.00 6.12 1.70 4.92 900.8 14.74 6967-56445-01 56445 2.37 6.63 2.05 5.85 900.8 16.90 6967-56445-01 56445 1.81 5.27 1.48 4.33 900.8 12.88 6967-56445-01 56445 1.56 4.67 1.21 3.72 900.8 11.17 6967-56445-01 --------------------------------------------------------------- s/n2= 9.59 28.64 7.98 23.94 4504.2 --> 70.15 [above 0.50] --------------------------------------------------------------- not done ---------------------- 04:49:05 loadCart: ct=12, pl=6983, sd=A; GSOGTF 04:49:39 sop.gotoField = running; 04:52:47 hartSp1: r=-228, b=-0.8, txt=OK, sp1Temp = 12.4 04:52:47 sos.sp1AverageMove = -2973 04:53:00 sp1.motor.move= -2973, -2973, -2971 04:53:00 hartSp2: r=242, b=0.8, txt=OK, sp2Temp = 11.9 04:53:00 sos.sp2AverageMove = -1606 04:53:06 sp2.motor.move= -1606, -1605, -1606 05:01:51 boss exposure 900.0, file=162618 Seeing 3.0" clear sky, high dust 05:18:13 boss exposure 900.0, file=162619 05:34:36 boss exposure 900.0, file=162620 (S/N)^2 accumulated for plate 6983 ---- logfile-56445.html ---- --------------------------------------------------------------- MJD b1 r1 b2 r2 Texp Sum Plugfile --------------------------------------------------------------- 56445 0.85 2.60 0.85 2.29 900.8 6.59 6983-56445-01 56445 0.67 2.03 0.64 1.80 900.9 5.14 6983-56445-01 56445 0.60 1.82 0.64 1.61 900.8 4.66 6983-56445-01 --------------------------------------------------------------- s/n2= 2.12 6.45 2.13 5.70 2702.5 --> 16.39 [above 0.50] --------------------------------------------------------------- not done ======================================================== Apogee: ---------------------- 07:50:16 loadCart: ct=6, pl=6893, sd=A; GSOGTF 07:55:50 sop.gotoField = running; 08:01:33 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830010, 47, A, Object Seeing 3.0" clear sky 08:09:56 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830011, 47, B, Object seeing 3.5" 08:18:17 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830012, 47, B, Object 08:26:44 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830013, 47, A, Object 08:35:05 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830014, 47, A, Object 08:43:27 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830015, 47, B, Object 08:51:48 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830016, 47, B, Object 09:00:15 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830017, 47, A, Object 09:08:37 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830018, 14, A, sky flat 09:11:10 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830019, 14, B, sky flat 09:13:40 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830020, 14, B, sky flat 09:16:19 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830021, 14, A, sky flat 09:19:10 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830022, 5, A, DomeFlat 09:22:08 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830023, 10, A, Dark 09:23:56 apogee.expose=apRaw-08830024, 10, A, Dark flat= /data/apogee/utr_cdr/56445/apRaw-08830022.fits master= /home/observer/bin/apRaw-03720068.fits nfibers= 300 average ratio= 0.861557100991 missing fibers (flat/master -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:29 11-6967A 1.000000 0 1256 0 121.0 30.1 20.2 3 228 99.9 03:24 11-6967A 1.000323 -3179 -1133 355 179.5 61.7 14.4 18 85 1.9 boss 03:41 11-6967A 1.000311 -3074 -1033 363 183.6 61.6 14.3 14 90 2.0 boss 03:57 11-6967A 1.000309 -3054 -1018 361 187.7 61.2 14.2 15 82 1.9 boss 04:14 11-6967A 1.000315 -3112 -1064 361 191.6 60.6 13.9 15 76 1.9 boss 04:30 11-6967A 1.000316 -3118 -1072 357 195.2 59.8 13.7 21 62 2.2 boss 05:01 12-6983A 1.000271 -2675 -712 350 178.4 60.1 12.9 16 93 2.9 boss 05:17 12-6983A 1.000293 -2895 -857 388 182.2 60.1 12.3 18 80 2.8 boss 05:34 12-6983A 1.000292 -2882 -824 410 185.9 59.8 11.9 24 75 2.7 boss 08:00 6-6893A 1.000347 -3424 -992 607 6.5 35.0 9.6 17 57 3.3 apog 08:09 6-6893A 1.000341 -3367 -970 582 4.1 35.1 9.4 16 83 3.9 apog 08:17 6-6893A 1.000359 -3529 -1082 619 1.7 35.2 9.4 14 81 4.4 apog 08:26 6-6893A 1.000372 -3663 -1202 605 -0.7 35.2 9.2 15 77 2.7 apog 08:34 6-6893A 1.000364 -3590 -1130 608 -3.0 35.2 9.2 16 80 2.7 apog 08:42 6-6893A 1.000361 -3561 -1108 605 -5.4 35.1 9.0 12 86 2.3 apog 08:51 6-6893A 1.000367 -3621 -1157 605 -7.8 34.9 8.9 14 112 2.7 apog 08:59 6-6893A 1.000358 -3535 -1128 560 -10.1 34.6 10.0 17 121 2.4 apog ---- Weather Log ---- --- Weather --- Time Inst Temp DP Dif Humid Wind Dir Dust,1um IRSC IRSCm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:29 11-6967A 20.2 -4.0 24.2 19 3 228 1484 8.4 1427.0 99.9 03:24 11-6967A 14.4 -1.8 16.2 32 18 85 2552 6.2 1438.0 1.9 boss 03:41 11-6967A 14.3 -2.0 16.3 32 14 90 2743 5.7 1437.0 2.0 boss 03:57 11-6967A 14.2 -2.2 16.4 32 15 82 2951 5.9 1440.0 1.9 boss 04:14 11-6967A 13.9 -1.9 15.8 33 15 76 3056 5.9 1447.0 1.9 boss 04:30 11-6967A 13.7 -1.6 15.3 34 21 62 3112 5.7 1467.0 2.2 boss 05:01 12-6983A 12.9 -0.4 13.3 39 16 93 4488 6.3 1465.0 2.9 boss 05:17 12-6983A 12.3 -0.4 12.7 41 18 80 4432 6.0 1489.0 2.8 boss 05:34 12-6983A 11.9 -0.1 12.0 43 24 75 4686 5.7 1483.0 2.7 boss 08:00 6-6893A 9.6 0.7 8.9 53 17 57 3454 5.7 1520.0 3.3 apog 08:09 6-6893A 9.4 0.7 8.7 54 16 83 3309 5.8 1528.0 3.9 apog 08:17 6-6893A 9.4 0.7 8.7 54 14 81 3275 5.9 1522.0 4.4 apog 08:26 6-6893A 9.2 0.7 8.5 55 15 77 3050 5.7 1523.0 2.7 apog 08:34 6-6893A 9.2 0.8 8.4 55 16 80 3082 5.9 1523.0 2.7 apog 08:42 6-6893A 9.0 0.8 8.2 56 12 86 2824 6.4 1526.0 2.3 apog 08:51 6-6893A 8.9 0.8 8.1 56 14 112 3174 6.2 1534.0 2.7 apog 08:59 6-6893A 10.0 0.6 9.4 52 17 121 3604 6.2 1522.0 2.4 apog ---- Telescope Status ---- 00:16Z Started ventilation 02:23:25 encl25m : open; 05:53:26 encl25m : closed; 07:52:27 encl25m : open; 09:25:28 encl25m : closed; No interlocks bypassed Status at: 10:26:45 Telescope stowed at: 121.0, 30.0, 0.0 mount Instrument mounted: cartridge = 6 Counterweights at: 285, 285, 283, 286 LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 150.6 lbs, 19.6 psi SP2 148.6 lbs, 20.7 psi ---- Software Used ---- Get Versions, 23:19:30 ----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 -- idlspec2d (sos3) --- v5_6_5 plate-mapper3 ------ NOCVS:v5_0_16 ---- Mirror Numbers ---- 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 97, in m4lprint reply += '\nFocus: ' + tcc['SecFocus'] + '\n' KeyError: 'SecFocus' PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 5.359 5.362 Axial B: 5.207 5.212 Axial C: 5.513 5.517 Trans D: 10.361 10.353 Lateral E: 10.6172 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: 21.3 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 7.042 7.036 Axial B: 7.056 7.041 Axial C: 7.04 7.031 Trans D: 0.329 0.334 GALILS Commanded: 1576550 1594600 1580000 -3550 -6650 Actual: 1576550 1594597 1580008 -3550 -6650 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 3.00 5.00 0.00 115.81 SecOrient: 1256.99 3.01 5.01 -0.17 116.13 ---- Problems in Detail ---- While attempting to load cart 11, I got the following errors. I tried it several other times and it still failed to load the cartridge. 23:56:05 APO.gebelke 71 stui F Aborted; Actor='guider'; Cmd='loadCartridge pointing=A' 23:56:08 .hub 0 cmds d CmdQueued=726020,1370130968.05,"APO.gebelke",90,"guider",506,"loadCartridge pointing=A" 23:56:08 .hub 0 cmds d CmdQueued=726021,1370130968.08,"APO.gebelke.guider",925,"mcp",438,"info" 23:56:08 .hub 0 cmds d CmdQueued=726022,1370130968.20,"APO.gebelke.guider",926,"platedb",548,"loadCartr id ge cartridge=11 pointing=A " 23:56:08 .hub 0 cmds d CmdQueued=726023,1370130968.24,"APO.gebelke.guider",927,"platedb",549,"getGprobe s cartridge=11 pointing=A plate=6967" 23:56:08 .hub 0 cmds d CmdQueued=726024,1370130968.47,"APO.gebelke.guider",928,"platedb",550,"getGprobe sP lateGeom cartridge=11 plate=6967" 23:58:23 APO.gebelke 90 stui F Aborted; Actor='guider'; Cmd='loadCartridge pointing=A' After failing to load the cart a fourth time, I decided to restart things: stui> guider restart stui> platedb reconnect stui> sop restart At this point, I was able to load the cartridge, take guider flat/dark and continue with afternoon checkout. 03:01Z in order to do Boss bias and darks last night, we bypassed the sop gui, this might have been the cause of the errors loading cart. cleared bypass everything seems normal.