NIKA October 13th, 2015 / S5

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2015-10-13


Following not updated

.Cryostat Temperature: 170mK cooling down slowly

Modulation frequency: 10kHz 1mm, 5kHz 2mm

Opacity is measured with the new taumeter at 225 GHz

Nasmyth offsets : 0, 0

Set Focus : we start at -2mm (not at all optimised, first task is try to improve on this!)


Data Repository: /home/nika2/NIKA/Data/run13_X/scan24_X

Scan

UT

Source

Command

Az

El

Pointing X, Y, Focus

Tau225

Comment

88-89

20h29

Uranus

Track

109

34

0,0,0.1

0.4

90

20h41

Uranus

Pointcross

112

37

0,0,0.1

0.4

set pointing -16.6 3.0

92

20h48

Uranus

Pointcross

112

37

0,0,0.1

0.4

set pointing -18 2.7 : check !, fwhm=13.8, 19.8 arcsec

93-97

20h50

Uranus

focuslissold

112

37

0,0,0.1

0.4

set focus -0.2, fwhm=13, 18.4

98-100

20h50

Uranus

Track

112

37

0,0,0.1

0.4

lost resonances: wait for a fix. Now TAPAS is working again (IH and FD fixed it following WB instructions)

103

20h50

Uranus

pointcross

112

37

0,0,-0.2

0.4

set pointing -14.8 6.6

104-108

20h50

Uranus

focuslissold

112

37

0,0,-0.2

0.4

set focus -0.6

109

20h50

Uranus

focusliss

112

37

0,0,-0.6

0.4

all subscans = 0, small data

113-117

22h05

Uranus

focusliss_x

134

51

0,0,-0.6

0.4

needs closer look, but 0 seems ok

119-123

22h05

Uranus

focusliss_y

134

51

0,0,-0.6

0.4

needs closer look, but 0 seems ok

124

22h05

Uranus

otfgeom

134

51

0,0,-0.6

1.1

beams are found 17 and 19, much larger than what we had a few minutes ago... ?=> retry a cross for a quick cross check

125

22h05

Uranus

Pointingcross

134

51

0,0,-0.6

1.1

Rain alarm is ringing... Antenna stopped.

NK2015_Oct13 (last edited 2015-10-16 10:53:22 by NikaBolometer)