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Daily Reports

Feb 8th, Tuesday

15:45-21:00; Angel: DAQ started and tuning with 48/7/54 bad kids for Ar1/Ar2/Ar3. Pointing on Uranus (1.5, -11.6), larger in elevation than expected. NIKA2 mirrors deployment rechecked. Best focus -1.0 mm. Pointing corrections are stable for this position. Beam sizes: 12.9"/18" because a slight ellipticity. Good atmosphere stability: ~2 Jy/b at 2 mm. Checking pointing corrections (6 values) in ~70 < Az. < 120 deg, and ~45 < El. < 70 deg. We get corrections <Az.> = 3.2 +/- 1.4 and <El.> = -8.9 +/- 3.0.