UT November 29, 2018

ARGOS/Eng LBTO Technical Night

OSA: D.G. Huerta

ISp: E. Solheid

ISA: B. Rothberg (Tucson)
ARGOS AO: J. Power, S. Walsh

Laser Dude: G. Rahmer

Software Support: A. Colson (Tucson)

Mtn Manager: P. Hartley

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Summary:

ARGOS Eng - completed tests on-sky, including measuring a pupil wobble by taking images at multiple positions along 0.25" slit

Eng Tasks Accomplished -

1. spectrophotometric standard in all modes

2. photometric imaging field - dual imaging for MODS mask pre-imaging (also test of MODS2R)

3. MODS-Bino AGW Transform data collection/confirmation - however, only ~10 stars were obtained as conditions rapidly deteriorated

4. Test of MODS2-Red in real science longslit spectroscopy - 30min exposure - worked - but resulted in a red grating fault (see IT 7496)

5. Observed 1 backup poor condition program QSO (MODS-1 Dual, MODS-2 Blue)

--MODS2 Red is currently unavailable again.

--Updated MODS2 rotator zeropoint, and MODS 1 & 2 new transforms are still active from AGW transform collection

Backup Eng Taak To-Do List:

1. MODS-2 Red on-sky checkout

a/ a spectrophotometric standard in all modes (if time is a factor, then I'll skip blue-only modes),

b/ a photometric imaging field (or any sdss field, but I have scripts for a couple of fields with photometry from Clem et al or Stetson)

c/ the Praesepe field, which has 5 or 6 stars with ZYJHK from UKIDSS and sdss ugriz photometry, and which would serve as a pre-image for a mask, thereby avoiding the limitations of using a catalog and autoslit.

3. MODS-Bino AGW Transform data collection/confirmation

4. MODS pointing, LUCI pointing

5. Test monocular MODS blind offset - make sure script engine update is working

6. ESM/SL Comparison

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UT 01:13 - LUCI GUIs running, init all run on both

UT 01:14 - AO checkout in-progress

UT 01:22 - com drop out from mountain? - my NX session stopped but polycom was fine...turns out it was Olga...

UT 01:29 - AO checout abandoned....going straight to ARGOS

UT 01:32 - DIMM 1.52" - authroizing LUCI-1 SL / LUCI-2 ARGOS

UT 01:37 - network drop out from mountain

UT 01:39 - test darks LUCIs

L1 - 0001-0002 2.51sec test dark

L2 - 0003-0004 2.51sec test dark

UT 01:53 - network drop out from mountain

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UT 01:57 - Sending collimation script for M52

UT 02:00 - DX side missed on target acquisition

UT 02:06 - pointing check - I updated the collimation star to a brighter one closer in the ARGOS patrol field

UT 02:11 - firing lasers

UT 02:17 - stopping lasers for plans

UT 02:18 - resuming lasers, sending L1/SL + L2/ARGOS preset

UT 02:49 - lots of planes going by, working on pupils with ARGOS AO system

UT 03:04 - satellite closure for 3 min + airplanes after - seeing hitting 2"

UT 03:18 - 2.5" on the DIMM

UT 03:24 - taking test images DIMM 1.93" Gain 1.0, 0.2, 0

L1 0003 - 2.51sec x 13 NDIT K

L2 0005 - 2.51sec x 13 NDIT K

UT 03:31 - airplane flew through

L1 0004 - IGNORE

L2 0006- IGNORE (this would represent no corrections)

UT 03:33 - network drop out from mountain

UT 03:35 - DIMM 1.74" Gain 1.0, 0.3, 0

L1 0005 ; L2 0007

UT 03:38 - Closure for planes

UT 03:42 - no satellite closures for 1hr 16min

UT 03:45 - Gain 1.0, 0.4, 0 DIMM 1.58"

L1 0006 ; L2 0008

UT 03:48 - Gain 1.0, 0.5, 0 DIMM 1.42" - got ripples

L1 0007 ; L2 0009 - IGNORE

UT 03:49 - Gain 1.0, 0.4, 0.05 DIMM 1.5" - ripples

L1 0008 ; L2 0010

UT 03:51 - Gain 1.0, 0.4, 0.1 DIMM 1.37"

L1 0009 ; L2 011 - L2 images look squashed (elliptical) wider in X than Y by ~1-1.2pixels

UT 03:57 - Airplane and RIP during GAIN setting

UT 03:58 - unleashing the light upon the sky

UT 04:03 - Gain 1.0, 0.4, 0.1 DIMM 1.6"

L1 0010 ; L2 0012

LUCI2 images show streaks through stars - looks like mini Saturns

UT 04:05 - Gain 1.2, 0.2, 0.1 DIMM 1.76"

L1 0011 ; L2 0013

LUCI2 images shows elongation and one 2.51sec read shows double stars

UT 04:11 - Gain 1.2, 0.2, 0.1 DIMM 1.15"

L1 0012 ; L2 0014

LUCI2 images shows elongation and one 2.51sec read shows double stars

Changing savemode to CUBE

UT 04:17 - Gain 1.2, 0.2, 0.1 DIMM 1.20"

L1 0013 ; L2 0015

UT 04:19 - RTD2 - LUCI2 had to reset all and restart

UT 04:21 - Gains 1.2, 0.2, 0.05

L1 0014 ; L2 0016

LUCI2 shows double stars - can see in cube first read is OK, then it jumps left ~30 pixels (~3.57")

UT 04:43 - DIMM 0.84" 1.2, 0.2, 0.05

L1 0015 ; L2 0017 -LOST AOS (sub-system died) and an airplane

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UT 04:46 -- Reauthorizing LUCI2 only - putting blinds in LUCI-1

-pointing check

UT 04:55 - sending M52 L2 only collimation script

UT 04:58 - powering on lasers

UT 05:03 - Facsum shows -+2147483648 for RA Dec HA

GCS right - guidestar flew off

UT 05:05 - preset to science field cleared weird numbers

acetrack failed since lasers were off, powering on lasers again

UT 05:07 - resending M52 science preset

UT 05:11 - ARGOS arbitrator disconnected, AOS crashed

L2 0018 looked OK, 0019 - arbitrator failed - can see poor image quality

LUCI2 reporting can't get rotator angle and elevation

back to FACSUM showing -+2147483648 for RA Dec HA - also in IIFGUI

-Calling Petr Kubanek - no answer

UT 05:25 - restarted PCS - fixed most of the issues (HA is still odd)

UT 05:26 - resendnig ARGOS collimation script for M52

UT 05:30 - AOS died again

-called Stephen Hooper

-shell set

UT 05:37 - resending preset

Arbitrator died

UT 05:43 - still holding on techincal issues

UT 05:47 - resending collimation ARGOS script for M52

UT 05:51 - sending science preset

UT 05:53 - LUCI-2 FW1 error - eng GUI - initizalized and manually moved to correct filter, failed again, initiazlied again

UT 05:54 - resending ARGOS science preset

UT 05:58 - says Clear + K - but looks like its the blind filter in FW1 L2 0020-0021

UT 05:59 - network drop out from mountain

L2 0022 - test - watchied numbers move in MCU - recovered

UT 06:05 - Put TT 1.1 Lo 0.3 & Ho 0.05 . Ripples immediately and rip Got ripples on AdSec

UT 06:10 - looks like it grabbed the wrong AO Ref star - system reports multiple stars and the one it grabbed was R=13. AORef star is R=10.7 (and there are no clouds and seeing is better now)

UT 06:16 - L2 0023 - test exposure 2.51sec x 13 NDIT CUBE K filter

UT 06:21 - System Status shows AO DX cooling flow low

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UT 06:31 - going to try Georgiev's G1 script

UT 06:39 - sent collimation script

UG 06:42 - sent science script (LS acquisition)

- preset failed due to airplane

UT 06:45 - resending science preset

Gains 1.1,0.2,0.0

UT 06:52 - -resending preset since LUCI GUI showed an error in preset but ARGOS had closed loops

Had to offset +0.12" in DETX to nudge star into slit - centerd at Y=1030 in slit (G1)

0028 - aligned in slit

checking pupil wobble by dithering up and down in slit with mirror

0029 - +20" DETY star is in upper segment (one above central segment) galaxy is at top of central segment - might be too much

0030 - -15" DETY - both look to be in segment

0031 - +15" DETY

0032 - 0" DETY

0033 - -43" DETY (first offset in Iskren's script) - moved to segment below central segment - star might be out of slit

0034 - +1" DETY (second offset - looks good)

0035 - +43" DETY - looks slightly out of slit (star)

0036 - -42" DETY - (4th offset in script)

0037 - +5" DETY (9th offset in script)

0038 - -36" DETY (23rd offset in script)

0039 - +36" DETY

0040 - 0"DETY

0041 - +40" DETY

0042 - -5" DETY

UT 07:38 - playing with gains

UT 07:47 - putting mask in turnout to take some images

0043 - cube image 2.51 x 10 H-band

0044 - test cube image 2.51 x 10 H-band

L2 0024-0044 - (0029-0042 wobble test along slit)

UT 07:57 - finished with Iskren's target

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07:58 - handing over to LBTO Eng, reconfiguring for Binocular MODS, putting LUCIs into safe setup

Plan is to observe full complement of specphotstds and imaging for a mask, test science image spectra possible

UT 08:27 - sending preset for g191b2b

UT 08:36 - starting spectroscopy all modes MODS1 & 2 for G191b2b

-there are some clouds in all-sky near standard

UT 09:26 - completed G191b2b script

UT 09:27 - sending preset for Praesepe imaging

UT 09:47 - MODS1R on the last exposure is taking a long time to read out exposure

UT 09:48 - now reading out OK

M1B 0014-0017

M1R 0017-0022

M2B 0113-0116

M2R 0116-0121

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UT 09:50 - Moving to Arp 187

UT 09:53 - caught the wrong star on MODS2, doing a pointing check

UT 09:57 - resending preset

UT 10:01 - MODS2R IMCS lock fail, but retry worked

UT 10:04 - MODS2R seemed to skip the acquisition thru slit and just take the field image, manually taking it now

headers all screwed up, but last two manual exposures of 10sec worked

UT 10:15 - RGRATING =1 move fault, move 1 but requested position 2, hit Retry

UT 10:16 - fault on retry, cleciked Imaging, OK, clicked Grating...OK

UT 10:19 - red IMCS lock failed, hit retry OK

-i swear i'm not trying to break MODS2-Red....

DIMM 1", WFS 1.3"

M1B 0018

M1R 0023-0026

M2B 0117 - stopped 179s short

M2R 0122-0127 stopped 178s short

UT 10:49 - moving to Stone_E - just at 29.5 AdSec limit,

UT 10:51 - used RS instead of TS in preset, resending - worked

UT 10:56 - i think i RIP'd DX - I think maybe SX too....(next on my learn how to fix list...)

-both shell set

UT 10:59 - clouds really rolling in.....don't think transform is doable - However, Olga found the missing piece of the puzzle

1. Update AGW.INI on mods1 and mods2 computers

2. Stop agw, Stop ie

3. Start age, start ie

4. PCSInstrunment.conf - make sure to update rotator zeropoint

5. Bounce PCS

6. run the transform init script to setup both MODS

7. Take your data

UT 11:03 - we're giving the transform a try - i'm updating PCS to Right Rotator ZP = 26.79, Olga is updating MODS transform sent by Doug M.

Ut 11:16 - bouncing PCS

UT 11:17 - running transformInit_PointingMask.pro

UT 11:18 R-grating error again - rgrating=2 move fault, positon at end of move 2 but requested position 1

- had this earlier

UT 11:20 - instconfig dual imaging not working on MODS2 - made a version for M2Blue - running now

UT 11:27 - ran transform collect - got error co-pointing limit.... https://lbt.issuetrak.com/CSIssue_View.asp?IssueNbr=7218

UT 11:29 - resending initial binoc preset

UT 11:32 - starting transform_collect again DIMM 1.21"

M1R 0027 On Axis

M2B 0118 On axis

-stars are different in each one

UT 11:37 - need to do a pointing check - DX was in another zip code (in another state)

UT 11:43 - moving back to Stone E

Using Stone_Estar50bt_pa180.list

UT 11:59 - Olga is checking on MODS2-Red grating

M1R 0028 on axis

M2B 0120 on axis

M1R 0029 - BG

M2B 0121 - BG

M1R 0030 - GS1

M2B 0122 - GS1

M1R 0031 - GS2

M2B 0123 - GS2

M1R 0032 - GS3

M2B 0124 - GS3

M1R 0033 - GS5

M2B 0125 - GS5

M1R 0034 - GS6

M2B 0126 - GS6

M1R 0035 - GS7

M2B 0127 - GS7

M1R 0036 - GS8

M2B 0128 - GS8

M1R 0037 - GS9

M2B 0129 - GS9

M1R 0038 - GS11

M2B 0130 - GS11

M1R 0039 - GS12

M2B 0131 - GS12

M1R 0040 - GS13 - looks like offset from what it shoudl be

M2B 0132 - GS13 - looks like offset from what it should be

M1R 0041 - GS14 - looks correct

M2B 0133 - GS14 - looks wrong again

M2B 0134 - GS15 - looks blank - missed target

UT 12:25 - losing guidestar SX lost

UT 12:28 - both sides failed

UT 12:27 - trying to restart SX

Done with trasnform for tonight

M1R 0028-0039 GOOD

M2B 0120-0131 GOOD

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UT 12:31 - attempting poor condition QSO target

UT 12:45 - lost guiding, but back

MODS1 offset into slit - 2pix -0.24 DET X, MODS2 looks good

M1R 0042-0047

M1B 0019-0020

M2B 0135-0139

UT 12:48 - com drop mountain

UT 12:50 - starting spectroscopy

I did not revert to the old MODS2 ZP or transforms for either MODS before taking this data....

UT 13:24 - finished 1800sec exposures, attempting a last 600sec - aborting earlier (94-120sec short)

UT 13:35 - closing dome...finishing up, putting MODS to sleep

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-- BarryRothberg - 29 Nov 2018