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NIKA January 22th, 2014 / S3

2014-01-22

Now we will use the tapas database that automatically fills scans table with the informations we were filling by hand untill now.

So please login with the t21 acount and its usual password (durc***9) to the TAPAS database.

Programm for today:

Check pointing and Nasmyth offset after re-alignment with the laser. Conclusion from yesterday: we don't have a reliable way to optimise the radio alignment, so we will rely only on the laser alignment, which seem very close to optimal according to 1st conclusions from yesterday.
Focus and Beam maps (standard + Lissajou).
Pointing session
Polariser on, and test observations with polariser: beam maps (+pointing and focus of course) first on planet then on a polarised source.

Scan	UT	Source	Command	Az	El	Pointing X, Y, Focus	Tau225	Comment
10	14h00	Uranus	Track -200 -200	123	40	0,0,0.0 -2.4	0.15	Track60
11	14h03	Uranus	cross	123	40	0,0,0.0	0.15	offset 0 0
12	14h04	Uranus	stopped	123	40	0,0,0.0	0.15
13	14h04	Uranus	Cross	123	40	0,0,0.0	0.15	offset -40 10
14-18	14h11	Uranus	pointliss	123	40	0,0,0.0	0.15	tuning not working between subscans
19	14h11	Uranus	otfgeom	123	40	0,0,0.0
20	14h11	Diy-TIP	skydip_up	124	40	0,0,0.0
22	14h18	Uranus	track -200 -200	127	42	0,0,0.0
23	14h19	Uranus	focusp	128	42	0,0,0.0		set focus -1.84
24	14h22	Uranus	focusp	128	44	0,0,0.0
25	14h26	Uranus	focusliss	129	44	0,0,0.0