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2024 Mar. 12th, Tuesday
Federico, Giovanni, Lea, Ste B. and Stergios at the telescope since ~10:30 (hereafter, local time), Quang in remote.
16:00-22:00; Stergios: maintenance finished around 16:00. We started with EMIR test observations with Ignacio testing the lateral focus at Uranus. The observations fail indicating a problem with ACU/spindles. The plan to perform lateral focus with NIKA2 around midnight is cancelled. At 17:12 we switch to NIKA and performed the DAQ with final values of bad pixels of 16/1/49 for the Ar1,2 and 3, respectively. KIDS are tuned properly, imbfits are created with the delay we observed the past weeks. We continued with calibration observations and moved to project 117-23 (orion) performing the 5th and 6th map repetitions. After sunset we moved to Uranus again for pointing, focus, calib_1scan, beam map and skydip (check the screenshot below for a weird skydip result from PIIC). Beam map was performed at ~40 deg of elevation, not optimal but we agreed to take more maps during the night. We performed another DAQ at 21:20 with 16/1/37 bad pixels for the Ar1,2 and 3, respectively. We continued with the project 138-23 that requires 3 hours to finalize. Another DAQ performed shortly after due to weird KID behavior (new bad pixels count: 31/3/38). At 21:42 we started the observations of NGC4214. Stefano and Lea take over.
A shy Moon and Jupiter set on Granada
It's a beautiful day on Pico Veleta
22:00-06:00; Stefano/Lea:
We take over at 21 UT as planned, and we continue observing project 138-23.
At 21:50 UT, we test the custom make-imbf, designed to run several instances of make-imbf in parallel. Bilal has kindly pointed SB to these scripts. We have edited them to adapt them to cryo run 78, but it's not been enough: it does not seem to start properly. Probably more editing might be needed. Therefore we switch back to the standard make-imbf, to avoid wasting time. Total amount of time lost: 10 minutes. Later we noticed that we might have been too impatient and maybe the custom make-imbf actually really started its job, but SB decided to kill it too early. We might try again later during calibrations or tomorrow.
During the whole night, we observe:
- 8 repetitions of NGC4214 for project 138-23 (2h in total)
2 repetitions of A2623 for project 153-23 (>~1h in total)
- beam-map on 1226+023 (scan 20240313s26), option "a". Followed by a skydip.
4 repetitions of NGC4214 for project 138-23 (1h in total) -> target completed! (total 13.2h)
- 1 repetition of A2747 for project 153-23
@4:45 UT we have to park the telescope because wind gusts reached 21 m/s
2024 Mar. 13th, Wednesday
06:00-12:00; Quang:
12:00-14:00; Federico:
14:00-22:00; Giovanni:
22:00-06:00; Stefano/Lea: (087-21 12-4)
2024 Mar. 14th, Thursday
06:00-12:00; Quang:
12:00-14:00; Federico:
14:00-22:00; Giovanni:
22:00-06:00; Stefano/Lea:
2024 Mar. 15th, Friday
06:00-14:00; Federico:
14:00-22:00; Giovanni:
22:00-06:00; Stefano/Lea:
2024 Mar. 16th, Saturday
06:00-14:00; Federico:
14:00-22:00; Giovanni:
22:00-06:00; Stefano/Lea:
2024 Mar. 17th, Sunday
06:00-14:00; Federico:
14:00-22:00; Giovanni:
22:00-06:00; Stefano/Lea:
2024 Mar. 18th, Monday
06:00-14:00; Federico:
14:00-22:00; Giovanni:
22:00-06:00; Stefano/Lea: