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21:00-03:00; Stergios, Angel: Unfortunately, tau raised above 1 at the beginning of the shift; still being unstable. At ~02h tau dropped up to ~0.7 with clear signs of relative atmospheric stability 21:00-03:00; Stergios, Angel: Unfortunately, tau raised above 1 at the beginning of the shift; still being unstable. At ~02h tau dropped up to ~0.7, with clear signs of relative atmospheric stability. DAQ of NIKA2 was started at 02:30 using the run72.ini file ('old sweep': see Monday's report: https://publicwiki.iram.es/DailyReportsNika2Pool101022) in order to check the instrument, main scripts, and quick data reduction before the science observations. Best of resonances (on-sky) gave the following bad/total KIDs relations: 138/1055 (Ar1), 123/573 (Ar2), 88/1056 (Ar3).

== Oct 12th, Wednesday ==

03:00-09:00; Quang, Stergios, Angel: We carried out some tests with NIKA2, starting with a small pointing session (110 < Az. < 305 deg., 32 < El < 71 deg.) after a good focus. Pointing corrections, averages and rms are given in the table below.
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A couple of calib_1scans on Uranus was obtained (20221012s20 and s42), as well as a skydip (s32). Atmosphere instabilities increased gradually during this test session. Regarding telescope and instrument, everything seems to be ready for starting the observations. At 05:50 we switched to EMIR. At about 06h and up to the end of the shift, Quang observed on behalf of the EMIR backup project 051-22. The tau from taumeter fluctuated a lot from 0.6 to 1.7. Tau at ~100 GHz from MRTCAL was stable: ~0.1.
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== Oct 12th, Wednesday == 09:00-15:00; Matthieu (on-hold), Angel: Mean opacity was about 0.6 and 1.2 over the shift. Project D02-22 was observed with EMIR-E0 (6 reps. on LH206718 and 4 reps. on LH93597). Noncompatible opacity for EMIR-EO observations (Wsw) after ~12:45. We parked the telescope at ~13:00. Dense fog and light rain after that.
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03:00-09:00; Quang, Stergios, Angel: Today, as part of the NIKA2 pool, I observed project 051-22 using EMIR. The tau from taumeter fluctuates a lot from 0.6 to 1.7. TauZenith (~100 GHz) from MRTCAL was stable: ~0.1. 15:00-21:00; Gianluca (on-hold):

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Daily Reports

Oct 11th, Tuesday

16:30-21:00; Angel: Rainy and foggy after the weekly maintenance. Slight snowfall. The atmosphere was quite unstable after that, but mean tau has continuously dropped; still being unstable. Preparing setup for NIKA2.

21:00-03:00; Stergios, Angel: Unfortunately, tau raised above 1 at the beginning of the shift; still being unstable. At ~02h tau dropped up to ~0.7, with clear signs of relative atmospheric stability. DAQ of NIKA2 was started at 02:30 using the run72.ini file ('old sweep': see Monday's report: https://publicwiki.iram.es/DailyReportsNika2Pool101022) in order to check the instrument, main scripts, and quick data reduction before the science observations. Best of resonances (on-sky) gave the following bad/total KIDs relations: 138/1055 (Ar1), 123/573 (Ar2), 88/1056 (Ar3).

Oct 12th, Wednesday

03:00-09:00; Quang, Stergios, Angel: We carried out some tests with NIKA2, starting with a small pointing session (110 < Az. < 305 deg., 32 < El < 71 deg.) after a good focus. Pointing corrections, averages and rms are given in the table below.

Source

Azimuth

Elevation

tau_225GHz

Azimuth

Elevation

3C454.3

304.49

32.63

1.00

4.80

1.00

3C454.3

260.17

39.15

0.76

-4.50

-2.40

Uranus

261.04

38.18

0.72

0.10

-3.30

Uranus

173.19

69.57

0.74

-1.30

-0.30

Uranus

212.62

66.66

0.79

-1.90

3.20

Uranus

178.88

71.11

0.68

-2.60

3.40

Uranus

235.49

59.20

0.90

-2.10

3.20

Mars

182.77

69.65

0.69

-3.80

0.70

Mars

110.36

60.85

1.17

-3.10

-1.40

HLTAU

213.86

54.96

0.69

-0.50

0.50

Total average

0.814

-1.34

0.17

Total rms

2.62

2.37

A couple of calib_1scans on Uranus was obtained (20221012s20 and s42), as well as a skydip (s32). Atmosphere instabilities increased gradually during this test session. Regarding telescope and instrument, everything seems to be ready for starting the observations. At 05:50 we switched to EMIR. At about 06h and up to the end of the shift, Quang observed on behalf of the EMIR backup project 051-22. The tau from taumeter fluctuated a lot from 0.6 to 1.7. Tau at ~100 GHz from MRTCAL was stable: ~0.1.

09:00-15:00; Matthieu (on-hold), Angel: Mean opacity was about 0.6 and 1.2 over the shift. Project D02-22 was observed with EMIR-E0 (6 reps. on LH206718 and 4 reps. on LH93597). Noncompatible opacity for EMIR-EO observations (Wsw) after ~12:45. We parked the telescope at ~13:00. Dense fog and light rain after that.

15:00-21:00; Gianluca (on-hold):

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