NIKA October 14th, 2015 / S1

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2015-10-14


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

For this session Array 3 is not connected.

Nasmyth offsets : 0, 0

Set Focus : we start at -0.6 mm which was the good value before clouds


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

Scan

UT

Source

Command

Az

El

Pointing X, Y, Focus

Tau225

Comment

1-3

00h03

Uranus

Track point

186

59

0,0,0.

0.6

Lost resonances

4

00h16

Uranus

Pointcross

186

59

-9.8, 6.3 , -0.6

0.6

pointing OK

118

07h14

Mars

Track point

123

47

0,0,0.

0.25

Pointing towards Mars. We are using the geometry reduced from yesterday's observation (s20151014s116/17/18)

119

07h20

Mars

Pointcross

123

47

0,0,0.

0.25

Scan not so good. The reference pixel is not centered.

120

07h23

Mars

Pointcross

125

48

0,0,0.

0.21

Ref pix 2022 (1mm) and 830 (2mm) not centered.

121

07h2

Mars

Pointcross

125

48

0,0,0.

0.21