Observing Plan for January 28-29, 2010 LDG Commissioning

Checks before start of commissioning

• New TCS Build? Items to Check?
• oacontrol server ready for LDG (AGW#4)? (Jesper Thomas)
• Telescope setup for Left Direct Gregorian
• Communication between AGW#4 and GCS (Torsten)
  • AGw Startup and home
  • Guide and WFSC image acquisition
  • Command line request to AGw
• Check operation of IRTC (Doug)
• Are there Stone fields available? (Doug)
• New probe transformation from AIP? (Jesper)

Commissioning Tasks

Software Tasks

• List of Software Checks (Norm will update)
  • TCS Software Tests
    • Prioritize
    • Time estimates

AGw Commissioning

• Any final commissioning items from AIP? (Jesper)
• Find Hotspot on Guider to put star in center of WFSC pinhole (Doug)
  • Data collected on 091009 (see log)
    • Move AGw stage ~0.2" increments up/down/left/right
    • Take guider and WFSC images
  • Analyze Data (Doug)
• Collect Probe transformation data for Jesper for a check?
  • Use fields FCs here:
    • StoneEagw 07:04:56.6944 +00:00:25.582
    • John's python script ready? (John)
  • Collect data (Doug)
    • Set 1: 1001?? (see log)
      • Seeing varying from ??
      • Raw data in /Repository/201001??
      • Reduce data in /OldRepository/IRTC_Data/201001??_Transform

IRTC Tasks

• Dice-5 data collection (Doug, John) (get instructions from Dave)
  • Determine LEFTZEROPOINT for LDG
  • Determine plate scale of IRTC
  • Collect data for Offset repeatability
  • 201001??
    • Data Collected on 201001?? (see log)
    • Analyze Data (Doug)

Possible Task (depending on performance of telescope)

• Collect data for Tracking quality
• Collect data for Guiding quality
• Collect data for Active Optics quality
• Check for pointing jump due to offloading of M2 (low priority)
  • Guide and Active Optics on medium elevation star
  • After 5 or 10 minutes, OffsetTelescope
  • Repeat OffsetTelescope every 5 to 10 minutes
  • => plot guide corrections as a function of time
    • If pointing jump due to M2 offload, then will see a large correction on the first guide image after the offset
    • Perform with Active Optics in "Default" mode (will see spikes) and in "M1" mode (should not see spikes)
    • Baseline will be to perform several OffsetTelescopes in a short time in "Default" mode (should not see spikes)