Technical Observing: 29 November 2012 UT

Observer: DMiller, JGuerra, JChristou (LBTO)
Telescope Operator: DHuerta (LBTO)
Software Support: TLeibold (Tucson)
AO Support: DMiller (LBTO)
Telescope Support: KNewton (LBTO)
Instrument Support: JMorris (LBTO)

Summary

Things to fix:

• pupil_collect should check that we are in GUIDE or TRACK mode.

Details

00:00 Fairly thick high clouds over us. Did not open at sunset

01:00 Clouds thin. Open chamber. Set pointing, collimate.

01:30 Collimation is not dropping below 700nm RMS on the GCSGUI. This is because the value displayed included Z12-Z22. However, we are not correcting these zernikes, so they should not be included. Torsten patched GCS to only include Z4-Z11: GCS.20121128.V2.7.3.3b and created the link.

01:35 Stopped and started GCSL to get new patch. Works properly. The value displayed on the GCSGUI is the same as the RMSENT in the wfsc .fits header, and this value is used to determine isCollimated.

01:45 Close for clouds.

02:10 Open, clouds thin

02:30 Collect SH pupil wobble data to confirm it is still nearly 0 pixels. Checked that Tertiary is in the same position as last night. Failed, we were in ACTIVE mode

02:37 Preset in GUIDE mode. pupil_collect in /home/dlmiller/data/20121129/sh_1. This will be the home position it Tip=

/home/dlmiller/data/20121129 subdirectories: sh_1 zero pupil wobble on SH pyr_tilt_500/ ~10 pixel radius pupil wobble pyr_tilt_-500/ ~10 pixel radius pupil wobble pyr_tip_500/ ~10 pixel radius pupil wobble pyr_tip_-500/ ~10 pixel radius pupil wobble

Juan Carlos took Pyramid pupil wobble data for these same tip/tilt offset. Tip:-132

Rot	x	y
50	7	-100
107	72	22.5
166	33	100
220	-44	100
300	-94	100
360	-57	-74

Tip:-1130

Rot	x	y
26	-32	-100
80	49	-100
143	55	17
203	-22	100
264	-86	48
330	-96	-100

tilt:400

Rot	x	y
26	-54	-100
87	27	-87
149	37	78
212	-38	100
275	-100	75
340	-100	-79

tilt:-500

Rot	x	y
48	20	-100
108	84	-27
170	48	100
233	-30	100
294	-86	24
356	-63	-100

The plot below shows the ellipse fitting to the measurements for the data set.

08:00 Collect guider hotspot -vs- reconstructed tip/tilt to be able to change hotspot on a preset to keep the SH spots near the middle of the subaps

/home/dlmiller/data/20121129/tt_300 Data quality is poor because did not send wavefront corrections

12:00 Juan Carlos finish testing problems changing binning during AcquireRefAO. The FLAO_SX is tested to acquire a star of bright magnitude to use Bin1, teh system acquire the star and it failed when the magnitude is estimated by the reading of the pupils. The fault has been reported to Alfio.

Thu Nov 29 11:22:07.933 2012 aos.AcquireRef.started - AcquireRef[990]
Thu Nov 29 11:25:54.434 2012 aos.info - WFS: star found, estimated magnitude:  9.07
Thu Nov 29 11:26:10.947 2012 aos.AcquireRef.failed - AcquireRef[994] failed - 'ERROR_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE'
Thu Nov 29 11:26:15.285 2012 aos.info - Updated variable L.IDL_STAT:  1

WfsArbitrator_18132|INF|      4496|2012-11-29 11:26:05.945843|             MAIN > ccd.equalize_quadrants(): Starting values: (672, 709, 690, 695)
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4497|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828108|             MAIN > Traceback (most recent call last):
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4498|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828145|             MAIN >   File "/home/aoacct/AO/current/lib/python/AdOpt/WfsArbScripts.py", line 2491, in arbFunc
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4499|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828165|             MAIN >     errstr = func(*args)
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4500|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828184|             MAIN >   File "/home/aoacct/AO/current/lib/python/AdOpt/WfsArbScripts.py", line 1362, in doAcquireRef
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4501|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828202|             MAIN >     calibHODarkInternal(app, sensor, instr, num=1000)
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4502|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828221|             MAIN >   File "/home/aoacct/AO/current/lib/python/AdOpt/WfsArbScripts.py", line 1940, in calibHODarkInternal
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4503|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828239|             MAIN >     app.ccd39.equalize_quadrants( target=500)
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4504|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828258|             MAIN >   File "/home/aoacct/AO/current/lib/python/AdOpt/hwctrl/ccd.py", line 651, in equalize_quadrants
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4505|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828276|             MAIN >     raise AdOptError( AOConstants.AOErrCode['ERROR_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE'], "Black level out of range")
WfsArbitrator_18132|ERR|      4506|2012-11-29 11:26:10.828295|             MAIN > KeyError: 'ERROR_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE'

It has been tested with different magnitudes having the same fault result..

12:01 Preset to BS9152, gs=11 (15.5 mag) to test convergence with dim star and bright background. High aberration, but converged in 5 iterations

12:10 Preset to BS9134 to collect field data.

12:20 field_collect, BS9134_new.list

13:33 Finish field set with 11 points. Data looks good.

13:35 Close

-- DougMiller - 29 Nov 2012

• pyramid wobble: