### OBSDATE ### 20140708 ### LOGDATE ### 140709 ### OBSERVERS ### KWD and YK (via Skype) ### WEATHER ### Thin clouds at the beginning with some moderate wind (7 km/h). Humidity at 70% increasing to nearly 100% @ SUSI during the first half (but only 75% @ ATCA), then decreasing in the second half, which was plagued with clouds. ### LOCATION ### Home ### PROGRAM ### Nearby B-star multiplicity survey (KWD) ### SIDEROSTATS ### n3 s2 ### TARGETS ### HR 8728 - Bright star for acquisition testing HR 7254 - Calibrator (fake fringes) HR 7254 - (Poor data, increasing clouds) Slewed to a number of other survey stars, but weather was too bad. ### QUALITY ### Quite bad (no/almost no useful data ### PROBLEMS ### Realigned PAVO at the beginning of the night and then tried to improve the North metrology, but without much success -- ended up using only the south laser, which improved fringe-finding once the weather was clearer. The pellicle problem ("Pellicle move timed out") still persists each time a new target is entered into taskmaster, but can be remedied by restarting the ACQLABJACK camera multiple times and moving the pellicle back and forth manually. During first half, the S2 siderostat again slewed indefinitely in elevation and failed to reindex, even after restarting the sidcon server, so we cycled the power in k108gtk (which then required a root user -- Yitping -- to restart the ark computer). When it came back, the S2 time was off by 1 second from N3, but restarting the server seemed to solve that issue. Persistent clouds made it difficult to lock on anything but the very brightest stars (e.g. Fomalhaut); also closed down for a couple hours during period of higher humidity around midnight.