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NIKA October 17th, 2015 / S8

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2015-10-17

Following not updated

The sky is populated with thick dark clouds, but there is a forecast of a clear patch from 9:30 to noon.

Set Focus : we start at 0.0 mm We updated ini.pako. Remember 1mm difference between the focus of NIKA and the focus of the other IRAM instruments due to the design of the optics (SL).

Quick description of the session: focus tests.

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

Scan	UT	Source	Command	Az	El	Pointing X, Y, Focus	Tau225	Comment
92	07h14	Mars	Track point	124	47	0,0,0.	0.72	Another day of NIKA2 awesomeness begins.
93	07h19	Mars	Pointcross	125	47	0,0,0.	0.72	Problems with the pointing. MC investigates.
94	07h31	Mars	Pointcross	126	48	0,0,0.	0.71	Clouds receding. Scan successful. Taumeter pointing South, not very informative at the moment.
95	07h35	Mars	Pointcross	129	50	1.4,-1.5,0.	0.71
96	07h46	Mars	Focustrack	129	50	1.4,-1.5,0.	0.65	Axis=Z.
97	07h48	Mars	Focustrack	134	52	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.68	Axis=X. Corrections around 0. with large error bars. Cannot trust corrections given the sky conditions.
98	07h52	Mars	Focustrack	136	53	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.67	Axis=Y. Xfocus=0.0 Yfocus=0.0. For completeness.
99	07h55	Mars	Beammap (1/3)	141	55	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.64
100	08h11	Mars	Beammap (2/3)	147	56	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.63	Glitch in the timelines. We should repeat.
101	08h26	Mars	Beammap (3/3)	151	57	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.72
102	08h42	HLS091828	Track point	143	46	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.65	Tracking source for sensitivity characterization. Loaded from NIK2R1 catalogue.
103	08h45	HLS091828	Pointcross	144	46	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.63	First pointing.
104	08h47	3C273	Track point	131	43	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.65	Checking pointing on nearby brighter source.
105	08h50	3C273	Pointcross	131	43	1.4,-1.5,0.2	0.63	First pointing.
106	08h54	HLS091828	Track point	148	48	0.5,-0.2,0.2	0.65	Tracking source. Sky is mostly clear. A few scattered clouds.
107	08h56	HLS091828	OTFgeom	148	48	0.5,-0.2,0.2	0.67	Sensitivity characterization.
108	09h09	Mars	Track point	168	60	0.5,-0.2,0.2	0.72	Back to Mars.
109	09h11	Mars	Pointcross	168	60	0.5,-0.2,0.2	0.68	First pointing.
110	09h19	Mars	Beammap (1/3)	169	60	2.1,0.7,0.2	0.61	Retrying beam maps on Mars.
111	09h31	Mars	Beammap (2/3)	169	60	2.1,0.7,0.2	0.59
112	09h47	Mars	Beammap (3/3)	169	60	2.1,0.7,0.2	0.65
113	10h03	Jupiter	Beammap (1/3)	195	59	2.1,0.7,0.2	0.77	Jupiter is just 30' from Mars, with a nice distribution of its satellites: it's too tempting, just for the fun of the picture! CANCELLED: Map too small.
114	10h13	Jupiter	OTFgeom	195	59	2.1,0.7,0.2	0.67	Setting scan to map Jupiter with its satellites (1200" x 240").
115	10h41		Skidip	206		2.1,0.7,0.2	0.70
116	10h50		Skidip	206		2.1,0.7,0.2	0.69	weather not so good, do some skydip stat, while looking for the right test scripts on Jupiter's satellites
117	10h59		Skidip	206		2.1,0.7,0.2	0.63
118	11h08		Skidip	206		2.1,0.7,0.2	0.69
119	11h14	Ganymede	NKotf	206	45	2.1,0.7,0.2	0.69	Testing nkotf script, first in AZ-EL. Trying to get Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa in one map. CANCELED! Many telescope alarms switched on. Stop. Juan Luis restarted the system. Then wind too high.
120	12h21	Mars	Track	242	41	0.0,0.0,0.	0.71	Relaunch PaKo, Back on track
121	12h23	Mars	Pointcross	242	41	0.0,0.0,0.	0.71	Same problem as each time we start PaKo while NIKA Control is already running: desynchronized scan. Restart all NIKA control instruments.
122	12h34	Mars	Pointcross	242	41	0.0,0.0,0.	0.71	windy
123	12h41	Mars	Focus	242	41	-2.6,-2.6,0.	0.71	quite noisy, redo to check
124	12h47	Mars	Focus	242	41	-2.6,-2.6,0.3	0.71	even worse, untrusty
125	12h50	Mars	Pointcross	242	41	-2.6,-2.6,0.3	0.71
126	12h55	Mars	Focus	242	41	-0.5,-3.4,0.3	0.71
	11h1	Ganymede	NKotf	206	45	2.1,0.7,0.2	0.69	Testing NKotf script, first in AZ-EL. Trying to get Ganymede, Calisto, and Europa in one map.