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22:00-04:00: Carsten: Switching to 186-24. 1spindle error at the start. Weather becoming instable, tau fluctuating ~0.4 with clouds moving through. Pointing on 0851+202 showing quite some instabilities. Switching to test and trying Mars. Pointing stable. Focus ok. 22h25: Start of wsw observation of J0956+3625, which still needs 3.5h. Scan 143 interrupted by spindle error at 23:34. 22:00-04:00: Carsten: Switching to 186-24. 1spindle error at the start. Weather becoming instable, tau fluctuating ~0.4 with clouds moving through. Pointing on 0851+202 showing quite some instabilities. Switching to test and trying Mars. Pointing stable. Focus ok. 22h25: Start of wsw observation of J0956+3625, which still needs 3.5h. Scan 143 interrupted by spindle error at 23:34. One wind alarm during scan 145: 20m/s peak.

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Daily Reports

Observers on-site: Michael Mattern, Marie-Anne Carpine, Paul Law, Carsten Kramer and Stergios Amarantidis (AoD).

Operators: Gloria (day), Sergio (night).

All times are in Local Time.

Feb 18th, Tuesday

Maintenance: during maintenance CD tried to fix E1 (apparently the issue was found) and we conducted some tests with E0,1,2,3 (just tuning in some corresponding frequencies for each band).

15:00-22:00: Stergios: Basic training on NIKA2/EMIR observations. 15:00 LT: Wind gusts up to 20m/s thus we wait a couple of minutes for the weather to improve. At 16:21 LT we started with tuning with EMIR to project 143-24. Spindle errors and homology at scan 18, 19, 20, 21 (good start...). Operator moves in elevation manually. Now the plots are not appearing but the imbfits are created. Problem located, apparently we don't get the plots with the project account 'test', so we will observe with project poolw-24 for now. Under the poolw-24 account we get the calibration plots but not the pointing ones. Trying with the 143-24 project. It doesn't work (either a focus observation). JT was contacted, the operator restarted odp but still plots are not created. Apparently the chopper was in manual mode, we repeat a pointing test to see if we get the data and it works! Moving ahead with the observations.

Marie-Anne: Observing 143-24, mediocre conditions, we did calibrations on uranus, mars and 0458-020. We are observing NGC1977, map 4 vert. and then maps 1 to 4 horizontal. Spindle error but no scan lost (when changing project to test). Continuing with NGC1977 - project 143-24 (using the source 0430+052 for pointing; brightest source nearby) completing a forth repetition on the vertical maps. The weather though is quite unstable...

22:00-04:00: Carsten: Switching to 186-24. 1spindle error at the start. Weather becoming instable, tau fluctuating ~0.4 with clouds moving through. Pointing on 0851+202 showing quite some instabilities. Switching to test and trying Mars. Pointing stable. Focus ok. 22h25: Start of wsw observation of J0956+3625, which still needs 3.5h. Scan 143 interrupted by spindle error at 23:34. One wind alarm during scan 145: 20m/s peak.

Feb 19th, Wednesday

04:00-10:00: Michael:

10:00-16:00: Paul:

16:00-22:00: Marie-Anne:

22:00-04:00: Carsten:

Feb 20th, Thursday

04:00-10:00: Michael:

10:00-16:00: Paul:

16:00-22:00: Marie-Anne:

22:00-04:00: Carsten:

Feb 21st, Friday

04:00-10:00: Michael:

10:00-16:00: Paul:

16:00-22:00: Marie-Anne:

22:00-04:00: Carsten:

Feb 22nd, Saturday

04:00-10:00: Michael:

10:00-16:00: Paul:

16:00-22:00: Marie-Anne:

22:00-04:00: Carsten:

Feb 23rd, Sunday

04:00-10:00: Michael:

10:00-16:00: Paul:

16:00-22:00: Marie-Anne:

22:00-04:00: Carsten:

Feb 24th, Monday

04:00-10:00: Michael:

10:00-16:00: Paul:

16:00-22:00: Marie-Anne:

22:00-04:00: Carsten:

Feb 25th, Tuesday

03:30-10:30: Project 169-24 (EMIR; XPOL):

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