Subject: 2.5m obslog 20140928 (SJD 56929) From: kinemuchi@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:04:20 +0000 (UTC) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Sunday September 28, 2014 (SJD 56929) ---- Observing Team ---- Audrey Oravetz Karen Kinemuchi ---- Observing Summary ---- First half of the night was lost to high humidity. Opened at 07:14 when humidity finally dropped. EBOSS OBSERVING: Cart 12 (Plate 7157) - not done MANGA OBSERVING: Cart 2 (Plate 8082) - aborted on E dither. Completed NS of the dither set. Closed at 9:00Z due to high humidity. Opened several tickets this evening related to various problems with the SOP and SOS page (see log for description of each problem). MaNGA observations did not appear on DoS page. We called Anne-Marie to update her on the observations. Filed ticket #2140 for the ticketing system is still on SDSS-III wiki? ---- Observing Plan ---- Sun 28 SEP 2014 56929.0 0.19 02:00 11:48 19:27 05:18 ---- eBOSS until 07:53 ( 5.9 h), then MaNGA ( 3.9 h) ---- Observing Log ---- Afternoon: ========== Checked actors. The BOSS cals taken this morning hung after the 9th bias. I cleared the exposure and continued with afternoon checkout. Gathered guider dark, mirror numbers, BOSS cals, and APOGEE cals. Started BOSS collimation with cart 16: motorPosition sp1: 22968, 22835, 22334; sp2: 23289, 22534, 23715; ---------- Median spectrographs temperatures: Tsp1= 11.5, Tsp2= 10.9; Outside air temperature= 13.4; 21:55:01 sp2.motor.move= 3113, 3117, 3117 21:55:10 sp1.motor.move= -3459, -3458, -3458 COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be OUT-OF-FOCUS (|mean| > 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -3.2 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07:31 12-7157A 1.000270 -2666 -653 372 2.2 50.1 11.5 17 198 1.7 boss 08:26 2-8082A 1.000346 -3421 -1277 379 35.2 51.9 11.3 14 197 1.4 boss 08:42 2-8082A 1.000317 -3128 -1037 383 29.1 53.7 11.1 12 184 1.8 boss 08:59 2-8082A 1.000312 -3077 -985 396 22.5 55.2 10.9 13 193 1.5 boss ---- Weather Log ---- -- Weather --- Time Inst Temp DP Dif Humid Wind Dir Dust,1um IRSC IRSCm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07:31 12-7157A 11.5 7.3 4.2 75 17 198 286 171.9 825 1.7 boss 08:26 2-8082A 11.3 7.7 3.6 78 14 197 373 14.9 801 1.4 boss 08:42 2-8082A 11.1 8.1 3.0 81 12 184 316 247.7 876 1.8 boss 08:59 2-8082A 10.9 8.7 2.2 86 13 193 296 253.1 866 1.5 boss ---- Telescope Status ---- Status at: 11:01:40 Telescope stowed at: 121.0, 30.0, 0.0 mount Instrument mounted: cartridge = 2 Counterweights at: 425, 425, 424, 423 LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on 180L LN2 dewar scales: SP1 101.3 lbs, 20.4 psi SP2 182.0 lbs, 20.4 psi --------------- ---- Software Used ---- Get Versions, 09/28/14, 21:46:07 -- STUI software: STUI : 1.4.1b5 alerts : trunk+svn149374 apo : trunk+svn158476 boss : v3_4 -boss.daq : 1.3.2 -boss.specMec : 3.0.4 gcamera : v2_0 guider : v2_4 hub : Tag: sdss3_v1_2_0 mcp : v6_6_18 -mcp.plc : 29 -mcp.azFiduci : v1_112 -mcp.altFiduc : v1_112 -mcp.rotFiduc : v1_112 platedb : v2_3 sop : v2_7 sos : FAILED -sos.idlspec2 : FAILED tcc : 2.14.0 apogee : not availble apogeecal : not availble apogeeql : trunk+svn158315M -- Other software sdssProcedure : v3_06 APO-local : trunk -- done -- idlspec2d (sos3) --- trunk 158099:158455M plate-mapper3 ------ NOCVS:v5_1_7 ---- Mirror Numbers ---- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: 0.033 0.037 Axial B: -0.025 -0.042 Axial C: -0.023 -0.022 Trans D: 3.209 3.21 Lateral E: 10.6807 10.7188 Lateral F: 12.3063 12.3063 GALILS Commanded: 10850 -450 5750 13050 14750 14300 Actual: 10850 -450 5750 13050 14750 14300 SETMIR VALUES PrimDesOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 651.00 937.40 PrimOrient: 0.00 0.00 0.00 651.08 936.54 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air temp: 13.4 Altitude: 30.0 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A: -7.062 -7.063 Axial B: -7.122 -7.128 Axial C: -7.03 -7.034 Trans D: -0.184 -0.179 GALILS Commanded: 1581300 1578850 1590700 1400 -2000 Actual: 1581318 1578855 1590691 1400 -2000 SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -3.80 0.00 0.00 9.58 SecOrient: 1256.99 -3.81 -0.02 -0.01 9.44