Technical Observing: 30 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

Details

LBC Focal Plane Tilt

00:45 Open Dome, configured for the two LBC's

01:00 John collect LBC data to determine shim size to improve focal plane tilt. Seeing ~1.2 but need good seeing ~0.6. Thus, data are probably not useful. Will try again tomorrow night. Details are in SciPrep20121130

MODS1

02:00 reconfigure to MODS

02:30 set pointing and collimate

03:00 Collimated with new Sext Act Opt. Have to change some parameter so get exactly the same act opt output in IDL as GCS.

03:20 Now get the same output.

03:25 Preset to guide star near the edge of the file to

04:02 Stop and start GCSL to reread .cfg file. Now should use mask9.msk, as it was with the old Cow.

04:30 Collimation with new Sext Act Opt is good and MODS images are round.

04:45 turn off new sext in GCS and stop and start

05:04 Seeing wings on the guider images:

• /Repository/20121130/GCS/left_guiderimage001430.fits (wingfs * /Repository/20121130/GCS/left_wfscimage000158.fits
• mods1r.20121130.0004.fits (wings)
• mods1b.20121130.0007.fits (wings)

05:13 turn on new sext in GCS and stop and start

• Stil see wings on mods1b-8 and mods1r-5
• Still see wings on guider

05:20 David clear C00

05:40 Act Opt not collimating. Asking for -1400 Z5, but guider image remains elongated. PSF GUI shows -20000 Z5. Problem with PSF. Talk to Chris. Should not have pressed C00. PSF lost count of applied zernikes. Press clear active optics. Everything is back to normal.

06:30 Collimate with new Sext. mods1b (11) has round image, mods1r (8) has round image with a little wing

07:00 Juan Carlos collect 20 point pt and col model with MODS.

09:00 Back to Sext with MODS. Now have recon with 2 columns removed in directory

09:30 turn on high order with all +-1 and factor 0.3. Not clear what is going on. Get high order on primary

09:45 wfsc 500 clear act opt

09:55 tried to set high order coeff to 0.0 except for 12 and 13, but was editing LUCI file. High order aberrations again. Clear active optics

10:57: Total zernikes on the primary

• bright on-axis star
• Nov 30 10:57:16 tcs3 LBT_PSFL: ACTOPT: Primary Zernikes 0 0 0 -1265.55 827.307 0 0 104.824 235.937 98.0715 354.155 -59.0792 -37.0917 -75.6773 78.3228 -115.021 20.1019 -14.21 42.6275 124.538 182.092
• Nov 30 10:57:21 tcs3 LBT_PSFL: ACTOPT: Secondary Zernikes 0 0 26.8206 0 0 -63.0217 -16.1605 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

10:59 preset to off-axis star with two columns missing

• Collimation did not change much
• mods1b-14, mods1r-10 Very round

11:20 On-axis

• Nov 30 11:27:54 tcs3 LBT_PSFL: ACTOPT: Primary Zernikes 0 0 0 6310.14 -6900.24 0 0 -533.5 479.115 -1655.79 416.093 -315.485 -44.9119 -100.961 219.578 -375.89 -130.186 -127.6 32.4024 265.839 522.949
• Nov 30 11:27:58 tcs3 LBT_PSFL: ACTOPT: Secondary Zernikes 0 0 670.538 0 0 20.4499 -63.3953 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

11:35 Primary drop during a slew. Dave gets it back up. Active Optics are cleared

11:50 Collimate on dim star, on-axis. wfsc ~656-666. Collimated quickly for so start of night aberration

11:55 preset to far off-axis star * well collimated

• mods1b-15 mods1r-11 oblong

12:10 Primary drop

12:23 preset bright on-axis star to collimate with star. Did not clear active Optics: wfsc 686-699. Forces too high on primary, clear act opt and OK

12:34 execMODS kueg_1012+2613.img

• mods1b.20121130.0016.fits
• mods1r.20121130.0012.fits look much better. Collimation was good!

13:00 pupil_collect for on-axis star: /home/dlmiller/data/20121130/sh_pupil_1

13:15 execMODS kueg_1050+3456.img

• mods1b.20121130.0017.fits
• mods1r.20121130.0013.fits look much better. Collimation was good!

13:35 Close the chamber

-- DougMiller - 30 Nov 2012