### OBSDATE ### 20140807 ### LOGDATE ### 140808 ### OBSERVERS ### KWD and MJI ### WEATHER ### Clear, very low wind, humidity 48% SUSI/45% ATCA rising to >100% SUSI/80% ATCA after midnight. ### LOCATION ### Home ### PROGRAM ### Nearby B-star multiplicity survey (KWD) ### SIDEROSTATS ### n3 s1 ### TARGETS ### HR 4853 - on-sky alignment test HR 5646 - B-star (camera at -15C) HR 5646 - B-star (again; camera now stablized at -20C) HR 5695 - cal. 1 HR 5695 - (cal. again; accidental extra sequence with some false fringes, do not use) HR 5646 - B-star HR 5354 - cal. 2 HR 5646 - B-star HR 5695 - cal. 1 HR 5646 - B-star HR 5354 - cal. 2 HR 5646 - B-star HR 7039 - B-star HR 7254 - cal. 1 HR 7039 - B-star HR 7348 - cal. 2 (also a B-star in our survey!) HR 7039 - B-star HR 7254 - cal. 1 HR 7039 - B-star HR 7348 - cal. 2 HR 7590 - B-star HR 7913 - cal. 1 HR 7590 - B-star HR 6897 - cal. 2 HR 7590 - B-star HR 7913 - cal. 1 HR 7590 - B-star HR 6897 - cal. 2 HR 7590 - VNC CRASH! last set possibly not saved? (11:00 pm) HR 8728 - post-crash test star HR 6252 - (cal.; accidental extra sequence with some false fringes, do not use) ### QUALITY ### Very good (several calibrated points) ### PROBLEMS ### Alignment on PAVO was very bad at the beginning, as it had likely worsened over the past month or so: north and south tip-tilt were visible on the camera, but the combined fringes were not. Moving the tip-tilt and N15/S15 mirrors and aligning by moving on the acquisition camera improved the issue greatly, after checking alignment with the laser. PAVO also seems to have cooling issues: When sent to -25C, the camera stays at about -20C. When sent to -15C instead, the camera was at -13.7C. All the usable data from this night were taken at -20C, and -15C was used at the very end of the night (by using a "coolon -16"). The VNC server crashed, and re-opening VNC showed that all of the SUSI windows had closed in the process, requiring reindexing of N3 and S1 as well as the crown wedge. The cart was still tracking and was stopped and zeroed. The vidmons failed to reopen (failure to open socket), and were instead opened by issuing xrun_vidmon then vidmongtk. (For future reference: if the vidmon servers die, the relevant commands may be cut and pasted from /etc/r.local, and may require killing some zombie processes. The error logs can be checked in /usr/local/susi/tmp). Finally, the south periscope on N3 still appears to be stuck in the "In" position. Otherwise: the conditions were very good -- great fringes -- and should be a nice set of data!