Subject: 2.5m obslog 20130615 (MJD 56459) From: asimmons@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:53:37 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Saturday June 15, 2013 (MJD 56459) ---- Observing Team ---- Dan Oravetz Audrey Oravetz ---- Observing Plan ---- 15 Jun 2013 56459.0 APOGEE until 06:40 (3.4 h), then BOSS (3.9 h) ---- Observing Summary ---- We opened at the very beginning of the night to obtain signal on: Cart 7, plate 5675, 090+60_A - 2XABBA; faint: 3, 133, 188 We were forced to close right afterwards due to rapidly approaching storms and remained closed the rest of the night. ---- 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 to verify aliveness, took guider dark. Focused BOSS spectrographs using cart. 11 according to Observing Plan: Median spectrographs temperatures: Tsp1= 16.5, Tsp2= 15.7 Outside air temperature= 19.4 COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -4.2 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02:51 7-5675A 1.000500 -4937 -2715 238 149.7 68.8 17.2 11 118 1.7 apog 02:59 7-5675A 1.000538 -5319 -2997 269 152.6 69.6 17.0 12 126 1.5 apog 03:08 7-5675A 1.000534 -5291 -2951 283 155.9 70.4 17.0 11 132 1.5 apog 03:16 7-5675A 1.000539 -5316 -3004 269 159.4 71.1 16.9 13 131 1.3 apog 03:24 7-5675A 1.000534 -5265 -2965 267 163.2 71.6 17.0 12 137 1.3 apog 03:33 7-5675A 1.000519 -5119 -2863 248 167.3 72.1 17.3 14 147 1.4 apog 03:41 7-5675A 1.000517 -5109 -2867 234 171.5 72.4 17.3 13 149 1.5 apog 03:50 7-5675A 1.000515 -5087 -2859 224 176.0 72.6 17.2 10 135 1.5 apog ---- Weather Log ---- --- Weather --- Time Inst Temp DP Dif Humid Wind Dir Dust,1um IRSC IRSCm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02:51 7-5675A 17.2 7.3 9.9 52 11 118 1511 38.0 1411.0 1.7 apog 02:59 7-5675A 17.0 7.4 9.6 53 12 126 1455 14.0 1413.0 1.5 apog 03:08 7-5675A 17.0 7.3 9.7 53 11 132 1512 15.8 1420.0 1.5 apog 03:16 7-5675A 16.9 7.2 9.7 52 13 131 1629 20.6 1411.0 1.3 apog 03:24 7-5675A 17.0 7.1 9.9 52 12 137 1646 13.4 1416.0 1.3 apog 03:33 7-5675A 17.3 7.1 10.2 51 14 147 1765 21.5 1415.0 1.4 apog 03:41 7-5675A 17.3 7.0 10.3 50 13 149 1774 59.6 1369.0 1.5 apog 03:50 7-5675A 17.2 6.7 10.5 50 10 135 1740 66.8 1327.0 1.5 apog ---- Telescope Status ---- 01:30Z - Started ventilating. 02:30Z - Opened enclosure. 04:05Z - Closed enclosure. 04:30Z - Stopped ventilating. Status at: 10:53Z Telescope stowed at: 121.0, 30.0, 0.0 mount Instrument mounted: cartridge = 11 Counterweights at: 285 LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 157 lbs, 21 psi SP2 172 lbs, 19 psi ---- Software Used ---- ----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 ---- Mirror Numbers ---- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 5.359 5.362 Axial B: 5.205 5.212 Axial C: 5.512 5.517 Trans D: 10.356 10.353 Lateral E: 10.6426 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: 24.2 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 7.042 7.036 Axial B: 7.053 7.041 Axial C: 7.04 7.031 Trans D: 0.329 0.334 GALILS Commanded: 1576550 1594600 1580000 -3550 -6650 Actual: 1576550 1594591 1580065 -3550 -6650 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 3.00 5.00 0.00 115.81 SecOrient: 1256.99 3.01 5.01 -0.16 116.13