### OBSDATE ### 20120425 ### LOGDATE ### 120425 ### OBSERVERS ### MJI, JGR ### WEATHER ### Clear-ish (some think high clouds at sunset and on infrared sat picture) Humidity rising, started at 80%, 88% at decision to park. ### LOCATION ### SUSI ### PROGRAM ### A baseline set of observations prior to mirror recoating. Gamma Cru 5m data ### SIDEROSTATS ### n1 s1 ### TARGETS ### HR 2326 HR 4853 HR 4763 HR 4700 ### QUALITY ### Very good (several calibrated points) ### PROBLEMS ### - S1 and N1 *didn't* have problems acquiring. Wow. Go pointing models. - The S15 mirror started way out of alignment. - S1 elevation index seemed unreliable this time (Ben once said that the azimuth index pulse was unreliable). It also failed to acquire delta Cru until a re-indexing. - Beta Cru (HR 4853) had very average fringes - obviously worse than Canopus earlier in the night. Re-aligned NTT to maximise FLUX in the PAVO server then all was not too bad (at least a 100s continuous lock). - Fringes continued to get worse... no clouds obvious. - Eventually quit on the gam Cru/del Cru sequence and did a gam Cru/bet Cru sequence. - At one point, the model offsets for both siderostats went to about 1200 arcsec (i.e. 0.3 degrees). Did PAVO record a fake tip/tilt lock that reset these? I wasn't watching but it took me a little while to figure out why both spiral searches suddenly weren't finding stars. When I then re-indexed South, the az axis was out by at least 1 degree.