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| Daily reports, NIKA2 pool week #4, Winter 2024-25 semester | [[Continuum/NIKA2/Main|Back to the NIKA2 main page]] <<BR>> = Daily reports, NIKA2 pool week #4, Winter 2024-25 semester = First week of the NIKA2 run 71 (Cryo run 83). |
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| Change of plans: we will go up to the Observatory on Tuesday as usual, hence 7 days. | |
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| Observers on-site: ... | Observers on-site: Philippe André, Helena Mazurek, Chiara Mininni, Ioannis Myserlis (AoD), Monica Rodriguez, Ste B. (AoD) |
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| '''Note by CK''': During the holography run last week, several panel frames of the primary have been adjusted. Uranus observations were conducted on 10/11 Feb with EMIR. Telescope efficiencies may well have changed (slightly improved). | |
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The plan has changed. Spindle nr 6 is being replaced today and the operation will take until tomorrow, end of maintenance. Therefore the observations will start tomorrow. Update on the Spindles work: yesterday the wind was rising, hence '''there's not been time to change the spindle motor'''. All electric connectors have been checked and few were found loose and have been fixed. The sub-reflector was mounted back in place. Few hours of EMIR observations were carried out as a test. During these few hours, three Spindle errors occurred. |
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| [[attachment:20250211_101549_mod_sm.jpg|{{attachment:20250211_101549_mod_sm.jpg|Mama, don't worry, I'm safe!|height=300}}|target="_blank"]] [[attachment:20250211_114634_mod_sm.jpg|{{attachment:20250211_114634_mod_sm.jpg|We missed our beloved telescope|height=300}}|target="_blank"]] Chiara, Helena, Ioannis, Philippe, Stefano and maaaany others arrived to the telescope. During maintenance, we prepare the NIKA2 setup: we open the VNC, start XEphem, start the PIIC monitors, start the make-imbfits (old). We test the rotation of the HWP: all works fine. 16:00-21:00 LT: Chiara + Helena + Stefano: wind, the telescope is parked. Training the new observers about how to read the PIIC monitor, fill Tapas, fill the Daily report, and everything they've ever wanted to know about what we are going to do when the wind will give us a break. 21:00-03:00 LT: Helena + Stefano; wind and snow -> telescope parked |
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Daily reports, NIKA2 pool week #4, Winter 2024-25 semester
First week of the NIKA2 run 71 (Cryo run 83).
This time, 8 days, starting on Monday, instead of 7 starting on Tuesday. Change of plans: we will go up to the Observatory on Tuesday as usual, hence 7 days.
Observers on-site: Philippe André, Helena Mazurek, Chiara Mininni, Ioannis Myserlis (AoD), Monica Rodriguez, Ste B. (AoD)
Operators: Kike and Frederic
NOTE by SB: if possible, please take some total power beam maps (Uranus at best); and some pol beam maps on Uranus too.
Note by CK: During the holography run last week, several panel frames of the primary have been adjusted. Uranus observations were conducted on 10/11 Feb with EMIR. Telescope efficiencies may well have changed (slightly improved).
Feb 10th, Monday
The plan has changed. Spindle nr 6 is being replaced today and the operation will take until tomorrow, end of maintenance. Therefore the observations will start tomorrow.
Update on the Spindles work: yesterday the wind was rising, hence there's not been time to change the spindle motor. All electric connectors have been checked and few were found loose and have been fixed. The sub-reflector was mounted back in place. Few hours of EMIR observations were carried out as a test. During these few hours, three Spindle errors occurred.
Feb 11th, Tuesday
Chiara, Helena, Ioannis, Philippe, Stefano and maaaany others arrived to the telescope.
During maintenance, we prepare the NIKA2 setup: we open the VNC, start XEphem, start the PIIC monitors, start the make-imbfits (old). We test the rotation of the HWP: all works fine.
16:00-21:00 LT: Chiara + Helena + Stefano: wind, the telescope is parked. Training the new observers about how to read the PIIC monitor, fill Tapas, fill the Daily report, and everything they've ever wanted to know about what we are going to do when the wind will give us a break.
21:00-03:00 LT: Helena + Stefano; wind and snow -> telescope parked
Feb 12th, Wednesday
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03:00-09:00 LT: Ioannis; I start the observed around 5 a.m. LT. Progress of the morning:
- setting all up and waiting for the de-icing to switch off
- NIKA2 tuning fine with only 25/3/30 bad KIDs
- pointing and focus on 1226+023. conditions still a bit unstable (atmospheric variations at +/- 10 Jy/beam)
- after a while conditions become acceptable and start with projects
- one repetition of 189-24, source CTRS27
07:30 UT: SB: The new make imbf is writing data in a new directory /imbfits but we don't have permission to read it! GRRRRRR. Hence since the start at 04:00 UT, we are using the imbf produced by the old make-imbf. So far it has been ok, but now we are losing time like in the "good old days". This should not happen. If the system/setup is changed, it should also work properly! We write to the IT group to fix this issue.
07:40 UT: we switch to NIKA-Pol. SB realizes that the leveling of the cryostat was not on level: attente. Be careful with the data taken until now.
- 08:00 UT we decide to copy by hand the new scans produced by the new make-imbf in the directory that was used until last time. It is surely faster than waiting for the old make-imbf to write the files. We now have three versions/repositories.
- 08:20 UT: we now have access to the new data directory.
09:00-15:00 LT: Philippe
- after initiating NIKA2-Pol, we do pointing and focus on 2200+420 (BL Lac), as well as calib_1scan (20250212s44)
- 157-24, one repetition of Sgr-B2
- 145-24, ... repetitions of G16
15:00-21:00 LT: Chiara + Ioannis: a test by Ioannis using a quarter wave plate in front of the NIKA2 rotating HWP is scheduled for this afternoon. This experiment allows to detect circular polarization with NIKA2! It is also combined with X-POL observations of the same targets.
21:00-03:00 LT: Helena + Stefano
Feb 13th, Thursday
Feb 14th, Friday
Feb 15th, Saturday
Feb 16th, Sunday
Feb 17th, Monday