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Special session after the new sweep (Oct 16-17; MC) inside a heterodyne Pool (Manager: Mónica Rodríguez). Times referred to LT.

Oct 18th, Monday

05h10; Ángel: Opacity (tau[225 GHz] from radiometer) about 0.4, relatively stable. NIKA2 pointing model set to Winter. Bad kids, total kids after new sweep and start acquisition (window open): 22, 1055 (arr1); 5, 573 (arr2); 33, 1056 (arr3). Some problems at the beginning with imbfits creation in ~/mnt/data/NIKAIMBFITS/current/. Fixed: OK. Setting to project nikas-21. Pointing on W3OH. A message of corrupted file/synchro problems from piic-monitor2pf appeared (due to kids geometry changes, I guess). IDL pipeline configured to run66 instead of run67. Adopting pointing 0.,0. and focus -0.8. Beammap on Uranus (scan 34). Slight opacity spike in the middle. Ephemeris fluxes from ASTRO: 19.1 Jy/b (150 GHz) and 44.9 Jy/b (260 GHz). Then a skydip (scan 35). Changing focus to -1.0. A second beammap on Uranus was tried at 07h50 (scan 38) with a mean opacity ~0.45 +/- 0.10. End of time agreed. Additional notes in TAPAS.