APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M OBSERVING LOG Wednesday August 26, 2009 (MJD 55070) ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===--- Howard Brewington Viktor Malanushenko Support: Stephanie Snedden Paul Harding Robert Lupton Craig Loomis Kyle Dawson ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===--- shake! Pointing Model Test Guider ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===--- We lost some times due the bad weather condition during the night. We have tested the new Guider - OK. We got the new pointing model by 33 points with Sky RMS = 1.89". We can not consider the pointing model completed, so as the NW part of the sky not covered by points. ---=== OBSERVING LOG ===--- Afternoon: ---------- 23:00Z Started the checkout 23:04Z Started the imager bias 23:05Z Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 142G 126G 8.8G 94% / /dev/sda1 99M 30M 64M 33% /boot /dev/sdb1 917G 815G 56G 94% /data sdssfiles1p:/data1/data 1.5T 712G 682G 52% /files hub25mp:/home 92G 34G 59G 37% /home_hub25m 23:15Z Collected mirror numbers. 01:30Z Telescop & fiducial tested, all OK. The BOSS Cart 11, plate 3520 has been mounted. Night: ------- 01:39Z Sunset 01:45Z opened doors, louvers, start ventilation. Cart. 11 plate 3520 BOSS (RA 341, DEC 0.0) mounted for the guider testing good counterweight = 235 lb 02:00Z - 02:50Z Home and relax mirrows - Done. 03:02Z Evening twilight 03:04Z - enclosure off - guider testing. - the good focus is +300 mk for the air temp.= +15.5 C. 05:10Z finished 05:27Z Moonset 05:30Z Clouds coming. :( 05:45Z Mounted eng.camera, good counterweight = 180 lb. The guider Mac was frozen and died. Therefore we took other computer. Then we lost some time because of the clouds. The rotator checked and errors is less than 0.5 pix for Ox and 3.0 pix for Oy. 07:24Z We run pointing model at 37 points with exp. time 5 sec. 07:50Z We losted 5 stars: clouds - mostly at east part of sky. 09:10Z finished pointing model. Errors = 1.9 arcsec. -------------- * getdat [tcc.pterr]pterr_20090827.dat Read 33 data points * use * fit coeff change value sigma 1 IE +0.002 -17.14 2.181 2 IA +0.003 -146.90 3.037 3 PZZ1 -0.002 -132.69 5.005 4 AN +0.000 +2.05 1.238 5 AW +0.000 -7.30 2.103 6 CA -0.003 +18.87 3.225 7 TX +0.001 -6.32 2.616 8 HWCA2 +0.000 -1.69 1.265 9 HWSA2 +0.000 -2.77 1.433 10 HNCA1 +0.000 -1.86 1.782 11 HNSA1 +0.000 +2.98 2.983 12 ACEC +0.000 +2.70 1.751 13 ACES +0.000 -0.08 1.361 Sky RMS = 1.89 Popn SD = 2.43 ---------------- We can not observed stars at NW direction, so it is means that the pointing model not yet finished. 09:30Z Cart.10 plate 3523 BOSS (RA 26, DEC 0.0) mounted for the guider testing. 11:09Z Morning twilight 11:36Z endNight finished happy. 12:31Z Sunrise ---=== IMAGING RUN SUMMARY ===--- Run Time Stripe Lambda Last Flavor Comments Start End Begin End Frame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8013 22:57Z 23:22Z 100 O 28.77 34.96 55 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): QA Procedures Done (y/n): UT Exp Time flavor comment (S/N)^2 totals ========================================== b1 r1 b2 r2 ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===--- Time Instrument Az Alt Rot Scale pos offset pos offset pos offset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===--- ---=== FOCUS LOG ===--- setmir piston Temp Wind Time Inst scale M1 M2 Foc Az Alt (C) MPH Dir filt fwhm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 05:35Z unknown 1.00000 0 1441 300 121 69.7 15.1 4 340 ---=== WEATHER LOG ===--- Wind Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust DIMM Sky 21:00Z 62 49 0 226 (SW) 1241 - 21:32Z 58 48 8 83 (E) 1028 - 22:04Z 56 51 6 92 (E) 1553 - 22:36Z 65 47 2 202 (SSW) 1138 - 23:08Z 62 46 5 248 (WSW) 1153 - 23:41Z 64 49 1 191 (S) 1194 - 00:25Z 57 46 1 206 (SSW) 861 - 00:57Z 57 43 9 85 (E) 886 - 01:29Z 58 42 7 86 (E) 834 - 02:03Z 57 42 5 95 (E) 838 - 02:35Z 59 42 7 85 (E) 858 - 03:07Z 59 43 4 90 (E) 880 - 03:39Z 59 42 1 97 (E) 849 - 04:11Z 60 41 0 182 (S) 730 - 04:44Z 59 42 4 347 (NNW) 750 - 05:16Z 59 41 5 345 (NNW) 736 - 05:48Z 57 41 4 339 (NNW) 717 - 06:20Z 58 41 5 2 (N) 728 - 06:52Z 58 41 6 331 (NNW) 753 - 07:24Z 57 41 2 331 (NNW) 757 - 07:56Z 57 41 2 279 (W) 749 - 08:28Z 56 41 0 191 (S) 798 - 08:59Z 57 41 0 149 (SSE) 795 - 09:31Z 56 41 3 47 (NE) 881 - 10:03Z 56 40 1 340 (NNW) 769 - 10:35Z 56 39 19 36 (NE) 760 - 11:08Z 51 43 23 66 (ENE) 949 - 11:40Z 48 45 20 70 (ENE) 1399 - ---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===--- 01:45Z Doors and louvers opened, fans on. 03:04Z Enclosure off. 11:24Z Enclosure on, doors and louvers closed, fans off. No interlocks bypassed. Status at: 11:36 Z Telescope stowed at: 30,121,00 mount Instrument mounted: Cartridge 10 Counterweights at: 235 lbs LN2 autofill systems: Connected and turned on. 180L LN2 dewar scales: Spectro 194.1 lbs, 16.3 psi Imager 152.8 lbs, 17.8 psi ---=== SOFTWARE USED ===--- IOP/SOP: v4_39_0 Watcher: v2_36_0 MCP: NOSVN TPM: tpm_v3_5_0 AstroDa: v15_13_1 TCC: TCC 2.11.0 2009-06-24 sdssProcedures: v2_44 SoS: v5_1_8 plate-mapper: v4_3_1 ---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===--- PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.6940 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0420 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3720 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6150 11.6170 Lateral E 10.3632 10.3505 Lateral F 11.9253 11.9253 GALILS Commanded: 9900. 400. 5850. 1200. 2950. 2750. Actual: 9900. 400. 5850. 1200. 2950. 2750. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -3.30 5.10 278.08 178.06 PriOrient: 0.00 -3.04 5.26 277.70 178.07 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 17.0 Alt.: 29.999923 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6150 18.6150 Axial B 15.6120 15.6120 Axial C 13.8170 13.8170 Trans D -11.7790 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1597665. 1566169. 1588052. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597700. 1566200. 1588100. -7600. -12400. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.97 -4.00 -8.99 10.20 234.69 After Home and Relax: PRIMARY: -------- Scale: 1.000000 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A -0.6910 -0.6940 Axial B -0.0420 -0.0410 Axial C -0.3730 -0.3710 Trans D 11.6120 11.6170 Lateral E 10.3505 10.3505 Lateral F 11.9253 11.9253 GALILS Commanded: 9900. 400. 5850. 1200. 2950. 2750. Actual: 9900. 400. 5850. 1200. 2950. 2750. SETMIR VALUES PriDesOrient: 0.00 -3.30 5.10 278.08 178.06 PriOrient: 0.00 -3.04 5.26 277.70 178.07 SECONDARY: ---------- Focus: 0.00 Air Temp.: 15.3 Alt.: 30.000537 MIGS TONIGHT NOMINAL Axial A 18.6140 18.6150 Axial B 15.6150 15.6120 Axial C 13.8200 13.8170 Trans D -11.7770 -11.7780 GALILS Commanded: 1598572. 1564600. 1586030. -7600. -12400. Actual: 1597700. 1566200. 1588100. -7600. -12400. SETMIR VALUES SecDesOrient: 1257.00 -4.00 -9.00 10.00 234.42 SecOrient: 1256.26 -3.56 -9.85 9.63 234.40 ---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---