### OBSDATE ###
20120817

### LOGDATE ###
120818

### OBSERVERS ###
XH

### WEATHER ###
RH<70 , clear 

### LOCATION ###
ROCS (Sydney)

### PROGRAM ###
binary and be stars

### SIDEROSTATS ###
 n3  s1  s3 

### TARGETS ###
eps gru (cal)

hr 322 
hr100 (cal)

### QUALITY ###
  Quite bad (no/almost no useful data

### PROBLEMS ###
N3 server was not opening at the startup. I fixed that on peleas, restarting the process.
Detail: Pavogtk doesn't start with the SUSI startup icon.

Spiral search doesn't seem to work on S1 (no change in offset  Az/El rates). Can't find the star with manual spiral search. Based on what is said in the baselines webpage, might be an encoder problem.

I go to S3.couldn t find the object even with the offsets. Started to check the alignement....
after some time and Yitping's advices, we saw that S1 south periscope was in....I haven't used S1 yesterday and I had some fringes with S2, so I guess there have been some tests going on today ??

Note: the auto-collimate procedure in the troubleshooting page should say astromod -a has to be run from peleas (naively I though it was taskmaster...)

Now the opcon asks a cab-reset whenever I ask him to track or slew. So it doesn't move because it always says it is out of position. 
However, it accepts to zfind even if stops after a few mms.
After doing 4 Zfind, "Go  zero" finally works !
The metrology signal was fine so what was the problem ? The opcon was at + 11.2 meters. May be there is something strange happening at that particular position (I have such memories from the observations I did last year).



Fringes are very hard to find on a calibrator eventhough everything looks perfect on the servers. I did a opcon reset and ldc indexing for safety.
They don't seem close to the -1100 region (written in the baseline webpage) that I scanned carefully.

After a while I found the fringes on eps gru: -1400,

Atmospheric piston is strong on this baseline, fringes are jumping around very quickly, really hard to integrate.

So I saved 20s instead of 100s.
I could get a couple of calibrated points.