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Plan for September 2018 Startup Observing

Plan for September 2018 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?ovms_hdfdirect.py
         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.

Followup tasks for E-time and D-time in second half of September

Note that these are all things that we want to do, but as of Friday afternoon weren't quite ready. None of them need significant time on sky, but may need significant work off-sky.

PCS patch for IT 7380 (waiting for Petr to discover the bug in the co-pointing initialization)
Apply binodal correction to SX Gregorian (waiting for Doug to analyze the data)
Apply updated pointing model (waiting for Dave to process the LUCI pointing data)
Apply AGw4 transform (waiting for Doug, who was having problems with the analysis last week)
Apply AGw2 transform (waiting for Doug)(less urgent as AGW2 already has a decent transform)

And then some things that could use sky time now:

collect pointing data with MODS/MODS (~2.5 hours, any seeing)
check MODS1 guide probe wrt/rotator center (0.5 hour in decent seeing)
collect MODS1 transform data (Olga, 2 hours in good seeing)
refine AGw4 lenslet alignment (John, in parallel to other LUCI activities)
SX SOUL on-sky?
Test sending LBC + LUCI presets via scripts (Olga, a bad-seeing, bad-weather task)

And then some other things that we'll need to work on later (beyond September):

DX M3 alignment at other focal stations
- for PFU (high)
- for L-N (high)
- for LBTI (high)
Temperature-free collimation model (from Yang's analysis)
More pointing data after the initial models are tested
Test new version of GCS

General Scope of Activities

Telescope wake-up
Instrument wake-up (LBCs, MODS and LUCIs)
TCS Software Build 2018B
M3 alignment
AGW alignment
AO on-sky tests of SOUL (FLAO and LBTI)
Instrument Calibrations (LBCs, MODS, and LUCIs)
Training of new telescope operator

List of On-sky Tasks

Telescope wake-up
LBC wake-up checks (high)
- Collimate WRS/DOFPIA - high (4 x 0.25 hrs)
- Superfocus sequence -PA=0,180 high (1 hr)
- Rotator Center Checks, start with PA=0, 180 (track mode), then 90,270 - high (1hr)
- Test Science OB - guiding - medium (1 hr)
  - Sidereal
  - Non-Sidereal - IT 7387 guiding with NS not working. Otherwise NS commands successfully sent.
- Standard photometric fields (check centering of pre-made OBs) - medium (1 hr)
- Spectro-photometric standards
- Twilight Flats all filters - High (4 x 0.5 hrs - likely min two nights to complete)
  - B-Bessel (PA=0,180)
  - z-sloan (PA=0,180)
  - Uspec (PA=0,180)
  - I-Bessel (PA=0,180)
  - g-sloan (PA=0,180) - need to repeat (3/5 OK PA=0, 5/5 OK PA=180)
  - i-sloan (PA=0,180)
  - V-Bessel (LBC-B, LBC-R) - (PA=0,180)
  - r-sloan (LBC-B, LBC-R) - (PA=0,180)
  - U-Bessel (PA=0,180)
  - R-Bessel (PA=0,180)
- TMS pointing model (DJT email 20180208) - log
MODS on-sky checkout (high) - (MODS 2 installed Sep 5, MODS 1 installed Sep 6) - MODS2 functional checkouts start Friday Sep 7
- Rotator Center measure (can use same field as for astrometric masks - StoneO or StoneA) - high (0.5hr)
- Measure Rotator zero point (mask alignment, masks for StoneO and StoneA) - high (0.5 hr)
- AGW Transform data - ~1" seeing - high (2hours to collect data on-sky, time during day to analyze, ~0.5 hr-1hr to verify on-sky)
- Spectrophotometric standard all modes - medium
  - Feige 110 Dual Grating MODS-1, MODS-2 Blue airmass 1.7 and 1.3; G191B2b MODS-1 Dual airmass 1.12
- non-sidereal guiding (imaging and longslit) - low (0.5 hrs)
- pointing model data collection - medium/high (1-2 hrs)
- Test Science OB - longslit (MODS1 and MODS2) and imaging (MODS-1 only) low - (1hr)
M3 alignment
- for LFBG/RFBG (high)
- for PFU (high)
- for L-N (high)
- for LBTI (high)
AGW4 checkout and alignment at LFBG (critical) (started 20180903 UT)
- initial wake-up
- general wfs alignment - nightly work
- align hotspot to rotator center
- adjust M3 to minimize pupil wobble
- understanding the remaining bugs and features
AGW2 checkout and alignment check at RFBG (high) (started 20180903 UT)
- initial wake-up
- general wfs alignment
- align hotspot to rotator center
- adjust M3 to minimize pupil wobble
measure LFBG/RFBG field aberrations (high)
TCS Build 2018B on-sky verification (medium) - 20180905 UT
PEPSIPFU wake-up checks (medium)
bent Gregorian TMS tests (low) - postponed by TMS late parts delivery
LUCI-1 and LUCI-2
- Rotation Zeropoint (Astrometric masks - to be done after Sep 7-LUCI-1 and Sep-10-LUCI-2) - high (1hr)
- Check Orientation on-sky - high (1hr)
- Image Pointing and Acquisition Check - high (1 hr)
- AGW-4 and AGW-2 Transform - high (2x2hrs - requires initial data, then followup to confirm transform)
- Longslit and Imaging check (dither along slit, offsets and dithering image tests) - high (1 hr)
- non-sidereal check imaging - high (0.5hr)
- non-sidereal check longslit - low (0.5 hr)
- Twilight flats zJHKKs (narrow band if time) - low (2 hrs, twilght 1hr each)
- Test Science OB -
  - imaging - medium (1 hr)
  - longslit - medium (0.5 hr)
- LUCI-2 DX AO test images - high (0.5 hr)
- LUCI-2 DX ESM test images - medium (0.5 hr - spectroscopy highest priority, H and J imaging 2nd priority)
- pointing model data collection - medium/high (1-2 hrs)