APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Monday August 23, 2004 (MJD 53241) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- swing: Jurek Krzesinski night: Mike Harvanek, Scot Kleinman ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- Science! ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- A few good exposures, but no plates finished - mostly due to clouds. Weird (but relatively minor) spectrograph problems at the start of the night. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- Telescope ok., DAs -ok., imager ok., spectrographs in spec, guider ok., MIGs - M1 E,F axies were out of spec and had to be homed (third time this dark run!). No problems to report. Night: ------ The initial spectro bias failed with a DQ busy error (See Problems). We logged out the ports and rebooted teh crates and all was well, once we took advantage of goStare's offer to correct the exposure numbers. Once that was done, we started with cart 3 plate 1687 (standard survey). During preCalibs, the exposures failed again. We fixed it with a grabInst -drop and a re-grab. Errors in Problems. Once started, GSOTGTF. Once inmediate clouds were gone, the DIMM was easy to setup- with Polaris still in its vision. This plate not finished in 4 exposures. 04:41Z: Next up cart 2 plate 1909 (SEGUE faint). GSOTGTF once we remembered to do the proper loadCart. None of last night's problems re-surfaced while getting guiding going this time. By 05:25Z, clouds came in and rendered science exposures useless. 07:26Z still in thick clouds, but we switched to cart 9 plate 1895 and GSOTGTF. But clouds still too thick for good exposures. 08:25Z Clouds moved in again, but we just got one good exposure a few minutes ago! Yup- seond exposure worthless. 10:15Z One good exposure just finished. And the next one. 11:07Z surprise -we need postCalibs 11:13Z Last exposure was bad (28325) ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Time Stripe Lambda Last Flavor Comments Start End Begin End Frame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4790 22:39Z 22:56Z 100 O 21.66 25.81 42 ignore ---=== IMAGING RUN DETAILS ===--- ---=== SKIPPY RESULTS ===--- Run Frame nFrames stars muErr muRms nuErr nuRms rot az el --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== LTMATCH RESULTS ===--- Run Field nFields alt az nGood rowMean rowSig colMean colSig rot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== SPECTROSCOPY DATA SUMMARY ===--- Summary Checked (y/n): y QA Procedures Done (y/n): y UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 ----- sequence 28296, plate -9999 ------- 22:39 28296 0.0 bias ----- sequence 28297, plate 1687 ------- 22:43 28297 0.0 bias 22:46 28298 10.0 flat 22:49 28299 2.0 arc 22:52 28300 2.1 arc 22:55 28301 2.1 arc ----- sequence 28303, plate -9999 ------- 02:33 28303 0.0 bias 02:37 28305 0.0 bias 02:39 28306 0.0 bias NIGHT ----- sequence 28307, plate 1687 ------- 03:00 28307 0.0 bias 03:03 28308 10.0 flat 03:06 28309 2.0 arc 03:24 28310 900.1 target 03:47 28311 1200.1 target 04:10 28312 1200.1 target 04:33 28313 1200.1 target NOT DONE ----- sequence 28314, plate 1909 ------- 04:55 28314 10.0 flat 04:57 28315 2.0 arc 05:23 28316 1200.1 target 05:46 28317 1200.1 target BAD (clouds) ----- sequence 28318, plate 1895 ------- 07:41 28318 10.0 flat 07:44 28319 2.0 arc 08:13 28320 1500.1 target 08:41 28321 1500.1 target BAD (clouds) 09:09 28322 1500.1 target BAD (clouds) 10:06 28323 1500.1 target 10:33 28324 1500.1 target 11:06 28325 1800.1 target BAD (clouds) 11:10 28326 10.0 flat 11:12 28327 2.0 arc ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 03:11Z 3 1687 -67.37 -0.0010 71.15 0.0008 121.68 -0.0238 1.000270 05:02Z 2 1909 375.30 -0.0016 56.25 0.0027 192.73 0.0171 1.000270 07:47Z 9 1895 33.77 -0.0022 69.02 0.0016 208.83 0.0084 1.000270 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== DATA TAPE SUMMARY ===--- Goes: JL Stays: JL ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 03:11Z 3 1687 1.00027 -2665 -1078 0 -67 71.1 13.3 13 272 gdr 1" 05:02Z 2 1909 1.00027 -2665 -1070 -25 375 56.3 13.0 12 304 gdr 1.5" 07:47Z 9 1895 1.00027 -2665 -1099 -25 34 69.0 12.9 12 282 gdr 1" ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 22:30Z 66 32 19 296 (WNW) -9999 - 23:02Z 63 31 20 281 (W) -9999 - 23:35Z 63 34 13 263 (W) -9999 - 00:07Z 61 34 19 259 (W) -9999 - 00:39Z 61 35 19 265 (W) -9999 - 01:12Z 59 36 15 257 (WSW) -9999 - 02:16Z 57 36 12 238 (WSW) -9999 - 02:48Z 56 37 7 256 (WSW) -9999 - 03:18Z 55 37 8 270 (W) -9999 - 03:49Z 56 37 12 298 (WNW) -9999 - 04:20Z 56 36 8 269 (W) -9999 - 04:50Z 55 35 10 285 (WNW) -9999 - 05:21Z 55 35 11 281 (W) -9999 - 05:52Z 56 35 8 269 (W) -9999 - 06:24Z 56 35 11 269 (W) -9999 - 06:57Z 55 36 9 278 (W) -9999 - 07:29Z 55 36 9 277 (W) -9999 - 08:01Z 55 37 14 291 (WNW) -9999 - 08:31Z 54 37 10 294 (WNW) -9999 - 09:03Z 54 37 14 307 (NW) -9999 - 09:35Z 54 37 14 306 (NW) -9999 - 10:08Z 54 36 11 304 (NW) -9999 - 10:40Z 53 37 9 292 (WNW) -9999 - 11:12Z 54 36 10 304 (NW) -9999 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 01:23Z Doors open, fans on. ~01:45Z open ~11:30Z close ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v3_140_0 Watcher: v2_29_0 MCP: v5_25_0 TPM: tpm_v2_42_0 AstroDa: v14_47 TCC: TCC 2.7.2.1 August 6 2004 sdssProcedures: v1_92 SoS: v4_10_7 hoggPT: v1_6_9 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 0.5250 0.5260 Axial B 0.7240 0.7130 Axial C 1.0000 0.9990 Trans D -8.6790 -8.6780 Lateral E 11.5189 11.5062 Lateral F 11.5062 11.4808 GALILS Commanded: 4850. -3650. 4050. -6150. 40200. 39150. Actual: 4837. -3652. 4065. -6127. 40183. 39144. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -3.60 26.90 1470.40 198.00 PriOrient: 0.00 -3.80 26.76 1470.93 196.30 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 17.8 Alt.: 30.007086 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 1.5010 1.7810 Axial B 1.1100 1.3910 Axial C 1.0870 1.3710 Trans D 0.0740 0.0630 GALILS Commanded: 1628625. 1548166. 1574452. -3900. -8750. Actual: 1628641. 1548187. 1574504. -3899. -8726. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 0.00 -25.00 0.00 146.27 SecOrient: 1256.98 0.01 -25.00 0.26 146.55 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===--- Spectrographs in spec (M1 temp=13.6 C): ----------------------------------------- IDL 5.5a> collimate, 28300 % Compiled module: COLLIMATE. Reading /data/spectro/53241/sdR-b1-00028300.fit Reading /data/spectro/53241/sdR-b1-00028301.fit COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.68 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 0.34 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.24 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.09 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b1 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of 3.2 degrees for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-53241-b1-00028300.log PostScript file = Collimate-53241-b1-00028300.ps Reading /data/spectro/53241/sdR-b2-00028300.fit Reading /data/spectro/53241/sdR-b2-00028301.fit COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.49 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 0.39 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.21 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.05 pix COLLIMATE: Camera b2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict blue camera ring movement of -1.9 degrees for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: (if red is already in focus) Log file = Collimate-53241-b2-00028300.log PostScript file = Collimate-53241-b2-00028300.ps Reading /data/spectro/53241/sdR-r1-00028300.fit Reading /data/spectro/53241/sdR-r1-00028301.fit COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.35 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 0.75 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.30 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = 0.10 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r1 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of -884 steps for spectro-1 COLLIMATE: Issue SOP command: "sp1; mechPiston -884" Log file = Collimate-53241-r1-00028300.log PostScript file = Collimate-53241-r1-00028300.ps Reading /data/spectro/53241/sdR-r2-00028300.fit Reading /data/spectro/53241/sdR-r2-00028301.fit COLLIMATE: Min offset = -0.66 pix COLLIMATE: Max offset = 0.21 pix COLLIMATE: RMS across CCD = 0.22 pix COLLIMATE: Mean offset = -0.10 pix COLLIMATE: Camera r2 appears to be IN-FOCUS (|mean| < 0.15 pix) COLLIMATE: Predict (red) piston movement of 898 steps for spectro-2 COLLIMATE: Issue SOP command: "sp2; mechPiston 898" Log file = Collimate-53241-r2-00028300.log PostScript file = Collimate-53241-r2-00028300.ps IDL 5.5a> ------------ NIGHT: Initial spectro problem: ------------------------- sp1> goStare 0 -init -bias PlateId [-9999]: Flushing charge for 15 sec appending BEGIN appending END EXPOSURE TIME is: 0 1093313262 1093313269 The old teamster, PID 18564, appears to have died; restarting 2004-08-24 02:08:12Z: beginData has failed: waited too long for the daqBusy Error sp1> goStare 0 -init -bias PlateId [-9999]: Waiting for command response from sd1 (crate 4, ICC 0), control server (client 0 ) Waiting for command response from sd1 (crate 4, ICC 0), control server (client 0 ) Waiting for command response from sd1 (crate 4, ICC 0), control server (client 0 ) ... preCalib errors: ---------------- This was the first preCalib entered at 02:51Z ---------------- Starting Flat field 0 (press cntrl-C to abort) Flushing charge for 15 sec appending BEGIN Exposure is paused; 10s of data were taken appending END EXPOSURE TIME is: 10 2004-08-24 02:52:57Z: beginData has failed: sp1 is not idle...aborting; sp1 has status error writing "file9": Bad file goStare was not successful, trying again ...