Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:49:06 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20111015 From: "Gabrelle Saurage" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, October 15, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Jackiewicz J.Jackiewicz ECHELLE 19:00 00:52 M.Kasliwal M.Kasliwal DIS 00:56 05:00 W.Ketzeback G.Saurage ECHELLE 05:05 06:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM02/R 18:39 01:00 0 0 0.6 0 1.4 4.4 0 0 PU02/R 01:00 06:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.0 0 0 NM05/R 06:00 07:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: G.Saurage The first 40 minutes of the night was spent troubleshooting the echelle slitviewer. After Fritz restarted somethings we were able to get on sky and start science. It was running well for quite some time then began to have repeated failures, which would stop the guiding: 02:20:17 APO.gabrelle.ecam 596 ecamera f text="unexpected input: error writing row 475 of image data to file: guider:gimg0198.fits; error: No Error" 02:20:17 APO.gabrelle 14 ecam f text="text=\"unexpected input: error writing row 475 of image data to file: guider:gimg0198.fits; error: No Error\"" 02:23:55 APO.gabrelle.ecam 626 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out" 02:23:55 APO.gabrelle 25 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\"" 02:27:15 APO.gabrelle.ecam 647 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out" 02:27:15 APO.gabrelle 31 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\"" 03:02:26 NM02.jasonj.ecam 1072 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out" 03:02:26 NM02.jasonj 48 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\"" 03:07:31 NM02.jasonj.ecam 1134 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out" 03:07:31 NM02.jasonj 51 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\"" 03:43:11 NM02.jasonj.ecam 1571 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out" 03:43:11 NM02.jasonj 52 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\"" 04:11:04 APO.gabrelle.ecam 1917 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out" 04:11:04 APO.gabrelle 46 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\"" We continued limping along like this tonight with echelle slitviewer. When it would fail. I could recover quickly but just starting guiding again but something bad is still happening. It gave me some trouble again when trying to get on sky with NM05 program. It took several nubs restarts to get things to progress. Then failed while guiding at these times: 12:19:38 APO.gabrelle.ecam 145 ecamera f text="unexpected input: error writing row 74 of image data to file: guider:gimg0832.fits; error: No Error" 12:19:38 APO.gabrelle 207 ecam f text="text=\"unexpected input: error writing row 74 of image data to file: guider:gimg0832.fits; error: No Error\"" 12:22:08 APO.gabrelle.ecam 169 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out" 12:22:08 APO.gabrelle 210 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\"" 12:22:20 APO.gabrelle.ecam 171 ecamera f text="unexpected response (not 3 lines): [' expTime camID temp\"', ' OK']" 12:22:20 APO.gabrelle 211 ecam f text="\"unexpected response (not 3 lines): [' expTime camID temp\\\"', ' OK']\"" 12:25:12 APO.gabrelle.ecam 201 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out" 12:25:12 APO.gabrelle 213 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\"" 12:25:29 APO.gabrelle.ecam 203 ecamera f text="unexpected input: error writing row 110 of image data to file: guider:gimg0844.fits; error: No Error" 12:25:29 APO.gabrelle 214 ecam f text="\"unexpected input: error writing row 110 of image data to file: guider:gimg0844.fits; error: No Error\" Other than echelle, everything was smooth. Clear skies, decent seeing. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NM02 E I/S 19:00 19:40 ecam failing guiding ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:41 ECHELLE 302( -641) 211 70 14.3 15.8 14.8 14.9 13.6 ND1 1.01 01:01 dis-slit 281( 221) 134 48 13.0 12.2 12.7 11.9 11.8 1.52 06:12 ECHELLE 418( -719) 234 67 12.3 12.0 12.5 12.0 11.9 ND3 0.72 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 63 25 9 227 (SW) 550 clear none 17:00 61 24 5 258 (WSW) 520 clear none 18:00 61 22 8 226 (SW) 480 clear none 19:00 56 21 2 234 (SW) 471 clear none 20:00 58 20 3 202 (SSW) 418 clear none 21:00 57 21 5 227 (SW) 411 clear none 22:00 57 21 1 203 (SSW) 576 clear none 23:00 56 21 7 221 (SW) 498 clear none 00:00 56 22 6 226 (SW) 519 clear none 01:00 56 21 5 250 (WSW) 466 clear none 02:00 55 22 6 257 (WSW) 418 clear none 03:00 55 22 5 261 (W) 571 clear none 04:00 55 24 7 293 (WNW) 550 clear none 05:00 55 21 8 317 (NW) 473 clear none 06:00 54 22 6 336 (NNW) 563 clear none Note: the wind was coming from the azimuth listed. The convention used is north=0 degrees, east=90 degrees. The dust count is particles > 1u per 0.1 cubic feet. TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.15.0 Current TUI version: 1.9.3