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| '''15:00-21:00'''; AoD: | Ioannis, Kaiyi, Hervé, Philippe, and Stefano arrived at the telescope. Maintenance: the telescope and NIKA2 are healthy. The HWP has been tested and rotates correctly. All is ready for a great week :) '''16:00-19:30'''; Angel, Stefano, Ioannis, Hervé, Kaiyi: Tuning after maintenance and at a high elevation of ~70 deg. Bad kids 13/2/16. Pointing and focus on the quasar 0316+413. Beam size ~ 17.7 x 18.5" at 2mm. Small ellipticity remains also after focus. Atmospheric stability at ~ 2-5 Jy/beam for 2mm data. Training session for Hervé and Kaiyi on NIKA2 pool observations. Skydip [scan 20240220s82] and then started with project 150-23. After initial pointing loaded an OTF map on source "id307" but observations stopped after only one scan was completed due to wind velocity exceeding the limit (reached ~ 14 m/s). Tracking deterioration was also visible up to the point that we stopped. |
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2024 Feb. 20th, Tuesday
Ioannis, Kaiyi, Hervé, Philippe, and Stefano arrived at the telescope.
Maintenance: the telescope and NIKA2 are healthy. The HWP has been tested and rotates correctly. All is ready for a great week 
16:00-19:30; Angel, Stefano, Ioannis, Hervé, Kaiyi: Tuning after maintenance and at a high elevation of ~70 deg. Bad kids 13/2/16. Pointing and focus on the quasar 0316+413. Beam size ~ 17.7 x 18.5" at 2mm. Small ellipticity remains also after focus. Atmospheric stability at ~ 2-5 Jy/beam for 2mm data. Training session for Hervé and Kaiyi on NIKA2 pool observations. Skydip [scan 20240220s82] and then started with project 150-23. After initial pointing loaded an OTF map on source "id307" but observations stopped after only one scan was completed due to wind velocity exceeding the limit (reached ~ 14 m/s). Tracking deterioration was also visible up to the point that we stopped.