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Plan for September 2016 Startup Observing


Times listed are times on-sky without any weather contingency.

Decision Tree 

Is Instrument Mounted?
   N: Check next instrument
   Y: Is Daytime Checkout Completed?
      N: Check next instrument
      Y: Is On-sky Wake-Up Completed?
         N: Do On-sky Wake-Up
         Y: Is it photometric?
            N: Are Commissioning Tests Completed?
               N: Do Commissioning tests.
               Y: Do other software or engineering tests.
            Y: Is On-sky Calibration Completed?
               N: Do calibration observations.
               Y: Is Science Verification Completed?
                  N: Do verfication observations.

General Scope of Activities

  • Telescope wake-up
  • Instrument wake-up (LBCs and LUCIs)
  • TCS Software Build
  • AO on-sky tests of UAO
  • Instrument Calibrations (LBCs and LUCIs)
  • LUCI AO Commissioning Preparation
  • LBTI wake-up
  • PEPSIPOL AGw wake-up
  • Instrument Real Observing (LBCs and LUCIs)

Nighttime Calendar Schedule (2 - 13 September 2016 UT)

(version of 13-Sep-2016)

  • Thursday September 1 (2 UT) - CANCELLED DUE TO WATER INTRUSION RECOVERY
  • Friday September 2 (3 UT) - CANCELLED DUE TO WATER INTRUSION RECOVERY
  • Saturday September 3 (4 UT) - CANCELLED DUE TO WATER INTRUSION RECOVERY
  • Sunday September 4 (5 UT)
    • DONE Telescope wake-up
    • DONE LBC wake-up
    • DONE LBC photometric calibration
    • DONE LBC WRS and DOHYBRID tests
  • Monday September 5 (6 UT)
    • DONE DX AdSec seeing-limited check (front bent Gregorian)
    • DONE AGw2 wake-up
    • DONE DX AO CentOS 5.5 tests
    • DONE LBC WRS tests
    • DONE LBC science-like observing
    • DONE LBC astrometric calibration
  • Tuesday September 6 (7 UT) - Lost to hurricane Newton
  • Wednesday September 7 (8 UT) - Lost to hurricane Newton
  • Thursday September 8 (9 UT) - Lost to humidity
  • Friday September 9 (10 UT)
    • DONE SX AdSec coma removal
    • DONE SX AdSec seeing-limited check (front bent Gregorian)
    • DONE AGw1 wake-up
    • DONE TCS Build 2016B check
    • DONE SX AO with CentOS 5.5
    • AO CentOS v6/v7 tests (in progress)
  • Saturday September 10 (11 UT)
    • DONE finish AGw1 alignment (also AGw2 in parallel)
      • DONE align hotspot to rotator center
      • DONE adjust M3 to minimize pupil wobble
    • W1 transform using LUCI/AO (in progress)
    • DONE LFBG and RFBG field aberrations
  • Sunday September 11 (12 UT) or FIFTH CLEAR NIGHT with good seeing
    • AO CentOS v6/v7 tests (continued)
    • DONE W1 transform confirmation (and contingency) with UAO (pending data analysis)
  • Monday September 12 - lost to weather

  • SIXTH CLEAR NIGHT (more than we have on the telescope calendar)
    • LUCI1/2 wake-up observing
    • AGw1 transform off-axis (AGw2 transform in parallel)
    • AO familiarization with UAO with CentOS X on both sides (part 1)
    • LBTI AO wake-up
  • SEVENTH CLEAR NIGHT (more than we have on the telescope calendar)
    • AO familiarization with UAO (part 2)
    • PEPSIPOL AGw start-up

Instrument Wake-Up (must be done before science can begin = highest priority)

DONE LBCs

  • LBC-Blue wake-up
    • DONE sky flats (check filter IDs)
    • DONE filter wheel alignment checks (twilight)
    • DONE Pointing, including telescope wake-up
    • DONE Check rotator center
    • DONE DOFPIA collimation
    • DONE Superfoc sequences (check focal plane tilt)
    • DONE Guiding for imaging
    • DONE Dithered imaging

  • LBC-Red wake-up
    • DONE sky flats (check filter IDs)
    • DONE filter wheel alignment checks (twilight)
    • DONE Pointing
    • DONE CoPointing
    • DONE Check rotator center
    • DONE DOFPIA collimation
    • DONE Superfoc sequences (check focal plane tilt)
    • DONE Guiding for imaging
    • DONE Dithered imaging

LUCI

  • DONE AGw1 wake-up (2 hours, preceded by daytime tests)
  • DONE Adjust pointing and coma for the remounted SX Adsec. (This will have problems since SX M3 is also remounted.)
  • DONE AGW1 basic alignment (see BGTechProcedures)
  • DONE SX AdSec Field Aberrations
  • LUCI1 wake-up (0.5 night, after daytime checkout by DaveT)
    • LUCI1 sky flat
    • DONE LUCI1 pointing, acquisition check
    • LUCI1 stage centering wrt/rotator center
    • DONE LUCI1 collimation check
    • DONE LUCI1 imaging test w/offsets
    • LUCI1 MOS or LS acquisition
    • Check for shadow of W-unit (IT 4353) - can be done in daytime

  • DONE AGw2 wake-up (2 hours, preceded by daytime tests)
  • DONE Adjust pointing and coma for the remounted DX Adsec. (not practical due to MODS being off, coma was small)
  • DONE AGW2 basic alignment
  • DONE DX AdSec Field Aberrations
  • LUCI2 wake-up (0.5 night, after daytime checkout by DaveT)
    • LUCI2 sky flat
    • LUCI2 pointing, acquisition check
    • LUCI2 stage centering wrt/rotator center
    • LUCI2 collimation check
    • LUCI2 imaging test w/offsets
    • LUCI2 MOS or LS acquisition
    • Check for shadow of W-unit (IT 4353) - can be done in daytime

PEPSI PFU

  • AGw7 and AGw8 wake-up (1.5 hours, preceded by daytime tests, priority=medium)

PEPSI POL

Postponed to a later date pending PEPSI POL installation.

  • AGw3 wake-up and alignment (2 hours, preceded by daytime tests, priority=high)
    • test acquisition
    • test guiding
    • test offsets

  • AGw4 wake-up and alignment (2 hours, preceded by daytime tests, priority=high)
    • test acquisition
    • test guiding
    • test offsets

LBTI

  • LBTI wake-up (4 hours, preceded by daytime tests)

Telescope Calibrations

Pointing Models

  • Test new binocular pointing and collimation models. (2 hours, priority=medium, any conditions)
    (more data to be collected after LN is mounted on 20-Sep-2016 and MODS/MODS are remounted)

Instrument Calibrations

LBCs

  • DONE LBC standards for photometric calibrations (0.5 night, photometric)

  • LBC observations of Galactic Star Clusters (or semi-dense fields) to map distortions at several PAs (0.5 night, seeing=any, weather=poor) [see Barry]

  • DONE Test DOHYBRID which combines a single pass through WRS followed by normal LBCFPIA (priority=high, time=2 hours, seeing=moderate)

  • WRS focus calibration (priority=medium-high, time=4 hours, seeing < 1.5, thin clouds OK)

  • More testing of LBC parallel observations in pseudomono mode (including the automatic collimation script that John hasn't written yet) (priority=low, time=2hr)

LUCI

  • LUCI standards and calibrations (1 night, photometric)

Instrument Real Observing (Science Verification)

LBCs

  • LBC observing (1 night, spectroscopic)
    • short exposure mosaics
    • DONE deep fields (for science cadence and LBC image quality issues) (Fields at different elevations are interesting for image quality comparison.)
    • non-sidereal

LUCI

  • LUCI observing (1 night, spectroscopic)
    • deep MOS or LS spectrocopy
    • NS spectroscopy

Software Tests

Adaptive Optics Tests

This are all very high priority as they are needed to have UAO ready for LUCI/AO commissioning. 
from DMiller email of 4-Aug-2016

Nighttime per side:
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0.5 night - check operation of AO system using old AO Supervisor (CentOS 5).  We do
     not need LUCI images, but would be advantageous.
1 night - check operation of AO system using new AO Supervisor (CentOS 6/7).  We do
     not need LUCI images, but would be advantageous.
1 night - Familiarize LBTO personnel to the operation of the new UAO functionality. This time
     is needed so we are comfortable with UAO operation going into LUCI/AO Commissioning
     starting September 16th.  We do not need LUCI images, but would be advantageous.

**Note, the goal of this nighttime schedule is to first, make sure the AO system is ready for
     LUCI/AO Commissioning with the old AO Supervisor.  The hope is that we would be ready
     with the new UAO AO supervisor (CentOS 6/7) for LUCI/AO Commissioning.  If we have
     difficulties with CentOS 6 or 7 we could fall back to CentOS 5.
**Note, it should be possible to test both sides at the same time
**These 2.5 nights can be split into half nights, or a fews hours a time
**The preference would be have have AO nighttime testing as early as possible so we
     can determine if we can operate with UAO with CentOS 7 (preferred) or UAO CentOS 6
     or have to fall back to CentOS 5 (no UAO).
**The first 0.5 nights of testing with CentOS 5 should have reasonable seeing (<1.1" or 1.0\x94) to
     make sure AO system is working in stable conditions after the summer work.  The next
     2 nights could be worse seeing (<1.5\x94) for checkout of UAO CentOS 6.7 and familiarizing
     of LBTO personnel with UAO.

AO Commissioning Task:
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2 x 4 hours - collect data for WUnit stage transformation.  One set to calculate transform and
     one set to confirm transform is good.

**Note, the Telescope calendar on the web for daytime and nighttime has not been populated for
      September.
**We are ready and expecting to be on-call for AO testing the first two weeks of September so
      we can be ready in a moment\x92s notice (well 30 minutes) to start AO work.
**For UAO testing we will request support from Arcetri (Alfio, Luca).  Second half of the night
      works better for the Italians.

Uses LUCI

  • Observations with Enhanced Seeing Mode for LUCI observations (priority=medium, seeing<1.5 arcsec, time=3hrs)

Uses LUCI1

  • AGw1 positioning performance with LUCI1, transform_collect (priority=high, time=2 hrs, seeing<0.8 arcsec, thin clouds OK)

  • Field aberration data with AGw1 (priority=medium, time=2 hrs, seeing<0.8 arcsec, thin clouds OK)

Uses LBC

  • Collect new binocular pointing data with LBC (priority=low, time=2hrs, seeing<2 arcsec, thin clouds OK)
    Try to get half a dozen extra stars at the highest elevations.






Next Month

MODS (after MODS are reinstalled in October 2016)

  • MODS1 wake-up (1.0 night, preceded by daytime tests by Olga)
    • MODS1 pointing, acquisition check, including telescope wake-up
    • MODS1 collimation check
    • MODS1 imaging test w/offsets
    • MODS1 stage centering wrt/rotator center
    • MODS1 long slit acquisition
    • MODS1 MOS acquisition

  • MODS2 wake-up (0.5 night, preceded by daytime tests by Olga)
    • MODS2 pointing, acquisition check, including telescope wake-up
    • MODS2 collimation check
    • MODS2 imaging test w/offsets
    • MODS2 stage centering wrt/rotator center
    • MODS2 long slit acquisition
    • MODS2 MOS acquisition

  • MODS1 active optics with the upgraded wfs (priority=medium, time=6 hr, seeing<1.5 arcsec, thin clouds OK) D. Miller

Postponed until later, pehaps much later

New LBC CCD Controllers

  • On-sky tests of new LBC Controllers
    • Sky flats
    • Collimation
    • Guiding
    • Deep imaging fields

  • Update timing in DOFPIA / LBCFPIA for new controllers with different latency of readout.

-- %USERSIG{JohnHill - 2016-08-18}%
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