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NIKA, January 23th, 2014 / S4

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2014-01-23

We use both the manual log below and the tapas database that automatically fills scans table with the scan informations.
So please login with the t21 acount and its usual password (durc***9) to the TAPAS database.
Yesterday's scan are all in TAPAS (inserted by hand), but the auto fill problem is still there, so in real time we only see the Lissajous. So we keep a manual log below, but in a simplified table with the comments and only the most useful scan info.

Programm for today:

Focus and Beam maps (standard + Lissajou). Centered on the refence detector: #494 of the 2mm array (#5 of the 1mm array is very close to it).
Pointing session
Skydip
Mount polariser, take OTF and Skydip with it (Andrea has left, last day of Nicols, so necessary to test polar scripts today).

Remark for NIKA staff: Good data are on RAW_X9

Remark for Robert: we have a little bug with the IMBFITS production; those which are not there for now are indicated in the comments, and we will remove these comments when imbfits are produced

OFFSET -37 -30 /sys Nasmyth => select detector 494 as reference

Scan	UT	Source	Command	Pointing X,Y, Focus	Comment
112	15h20	Uranus	Track -200 -200	0 0, -1.4	usefull to 1st tune of resonances. OFFSET -37 -30 /sys Nasmyth no imbfits yet
113	15h24	Uranus	pointliss	0 0, -1.4	Tau 0.1
114	15h25	Uranus	cross	0 0, -1.4	problems in the data
115-119	15h26	Uranus	focusliss	0 0, -1.4	started the scan too quickly: tune didn't have time to follow
120	15h30	Uranus	cross	0 0, -1.4
121	15h32	Uranus	focusp	0 0, -1.4	a problem to fix in the pipeline, take this debug time to do a frequency sweep, should not affect data, but several min without obs.
122	15h45	Uranus	track	0 0, -1.4	a problem to fix in the pipeline
123	15h45	Uranus	otfgeom	0 0, -1.4
124-128	16h20	Uranus	focusliss	0 0, -0.8
129	16h22	Uranus	pointliss	0 0, -0.8
130	16h22	Uranus	pointliss	-6 -5, -0.8
131-135	16h31	Uranus	focusliss	-6 -5, -0.8
136	16h39	Uranus	cross	-6 -5, -0.8
137	16h39	Uranus	cross	-6 -5, -0.9
138	16h44	Uranus	cross	-5 -3, -0.9
139	16h46	Uranus	focusp	-5 -3, -0.9
140	16h45	Uranus	otfgeom	-5 -3, -0.9
141	17h05	Uranus	otfgeom	-5 -3, -0.9
142	17h14	Uranus	cross	-5 -3, -0.9	Start pointing session should put pointing -4.7 -1.7
143	17h20	Uranus	cross	-4.7 -1.7, -0.9	should put pointing -4.1 -2.2
144	17h27	3C454.3	track	-4.1 -2.2, -0.9
145	17h27	3C454.3	cross	-4.1 -2.2, -0.9	should put pointing -2.6 -2.4
146	17h27	3C454.3	cross	-4.1 -2.2, -0.9	should put pointing -1.9 -2.7
147	17h27	3C454.3	cross	-2.6 -2.4, -0.9	should put pointing -1.7 -2.6
148	17h40	2223-052	track	-1.7 -2.6, -0.9
149	17h40	2223-052	cross	-1.7 -2.6, -0.9	should put pointing 0.5 -1.6
150	17h40	2255-282	track	0.5 -1.6, -0.9
151	17h40	2255-282	cross	0.5 -1.6, -0.9	tunning during the scan (very low elevation)
152	17h40	2255-282	cross	0.5 -1.6, -0.9	should put pointing 2 -3
153	17h53	Uranus	track	2 -3, -0.9
154	17h53	Uranus	cross	2 -3, -0.9	should put pointing -4 -1.7
155	17h53	Uranus	cross	-4 -1.7, -0.9	should put pointing -3.8 -1.5
156	18h02	0202+149	track	-3.8 -1.5, -0.9
157	18h02	0202+149	cross	-3.8 -1.5, -0.9	should put pointing -8 -4.3
158	18h05	0202+149	pointliss	-3.8 -1.5, -0.9	should put pointing -8.3 -3.8
159	18h02	0202+149	cross	-8.3 -3.8, -0.9	should put pointing -8.3 -2.8
160	18h13	0234+285	track	-8.3 -2.8, -0.9
161	18h13	0234+285	cross	-8.3 -2.8, -0.9	should put pointing -7.7 -4.6
162	18h19	0420-014	track	-7.7 -4.6, -0.9
163	18h19	0420-014	cross	-7.7 -4.6, -0.9	should put pointing -3.2 0.1 (a wind alarm just after the scan)
164	18h19	0420-014	focusp	-7.7 -4.6, -0.9	cancelled (pb with azimuth motors)
165	18h32	0420-014	focusp	-7.7 -4.6, -0.9	focus should be -1.09
166-170	18h32	0420-014	focusliss	-3.2 0.1, -0.9	focus should be -1.3
171	18h44	0420-014	cross	-3.2 0.1, -1.3	should put pointing