• Tracking at position :
  • RA = 101.288541 RA Offset = -0.6
  • DEC = -16.71343 DEC Offset = 0.7

• Different ParkOut and Parkin done with different values for testing the torque limitation. 
  • By decreasing the torque and the position , the parkin failed because we are not in the CSS locking sensor (in locking position)
  • By setting back the original values, th parkin is ok but the bolt cannot be properly inserted.

The 2 swicthes are too far from the target at 56.48 elevation.  The sensor have been tuned in parkin position and the distance was correct (2mm) and at 56.48 is about 10mm. (impossible to tune correctly the sensor and the atrger has to be tuned)

- During shutter tests, we were requested to move the telescope many times between two positions at different zenith. Sometimes, once the position is reached and in the log I got the message 'GoToTelescopePosition Done received', the command panel stay stack with the "action in progress" bar without possibility to perform other atctions. I need to click to 'general abort' to stop the action and  get the panel comand back. It happened 3 times

- During tracking, the message on the screen switch from "tracking in progress" to "action in progress, please wait..." The latter is quite misleading for non-familiar user of the gui.

After tracking Mk421, we abort current action (acknowledged) and try to go to a new source: RA=308.1, Dec=40.96. Drive Control refuses these parameters ("check your parameters").

General Abort without effect for 2 minutes. Called expert (Ino). He will look into it.

Ino explained: MOS was totally desynchronised with PLC. (It was assuming that the telescope was parked.) He parked the telescope manually. Thanks!
Experts will investigate on Monday. But the shift crews can continue to use the  Drive Control and tracking.

(For Thierry with love <3 :-)

The semi-expert drive control panel uses various terms for the zenith angle: "Altitude (zenith angle)", "Elevation", "Angle". "Zenith Angle". 
It would be less confusing, if only one and the same term were used over all places in the GUI.

After we issued the tracking command, giving RA/Dec, the GUI displayed

• "Tracking in process" when the telescope was still moving, and the tracking point was not reached.
• "Action in progress.Please wait ...", when the telescope was actually tracking.

We believe these two should be exchanged. Maybe even a colour code (yellow when still going to the tracking point, indicating that the telescop is not in nominal operation, and green when tracking is ongoing) could help the shiftcrew to understand in one glimpse where we are.

On park-in command, telescope went to the right position 95/-1, but did not recognise that it was there.

• Pushed Park-In again
• Acknowledged one error
• Then everything fine.

When checking the telescope visually outside, while it was in the "park-out" position, a car happened to pass by from the upper road (coming from the other telescopes). Its lights flashed directly into the camera. It seems that the road is in direct prolongation of our current park-out position.

• We saw the CAM HV going down several times in the park-out position (where the shutter is typically opened) during the last weeks. Can we change this standard position slightly (higher or lower)?
• Another question is of course, why cars drive with lights on in that place. The "no luz larga" sign is below the MAGIC site, if I remember correctly.

When parking in the telescope, accidently hit "Shutdown" button instead of "Parkin" in Drive Semi-epert GUI. Nothing seem to happen for minutes despite telling command in progress "Shutdown"

Texted Drive experts, they told to just hit again the correct "Parkin" button.

Near the end of parkin in, procedure got stuck. Drive expert identified fuse Q21 having gone off. Switched back the fuse, acknowledged error, retried park in. Then, tower close. After expert intervention, did close and everything was fine.

At parking in, the telescope got stuck at 94.254°. We checked in the container that fuse Q21 went off. We did not see any errors both in the Drive cointainer and the GUI. We texted the experts. After 15 minutes, we pressed again "ParkIn" (without having touched the fuse). After nothing happend in the GUI, we called the experts. They authorized us to switch back the fuse. After that, still heavy intervention by the experts was needed, who finally made the telescope successfully park (fuse was on during all the trials). Thanks to the experts solving the issue at late night!

Tonight, we tracked Vega to test (a correction of) the pointing offset of the Drive.

Around 22:30UTC, we tried different Az offsets of the pointing in the Semi-expert GUI, followed by taking an image with the PSF camera to see the effect of the offset choice.

We tried delta_az = 0.3°, 0.1°, 0.26°, 0.6°. Strangely, we saw some unexpected (much too large) shifting of the spot for delta_az = 0.3° and delta_az = 0.6° (but looked reasonable for delta_az = 0.26°), which appeared quite puzzling to us (see specific Camera Elog here).

After having tracked with delta_az = 0.6°, we stopped again, and selected delta_az = 0.4°. We submitted the command ("Start"). Some seconds after submission, we became unsure whether we used the right field in the GUI where we entered the delta_az values. We hit "abort current action" (to check our previous command), when probably the slewing to the new offset position wasn't finished yet (about 5 seconds after the previous "Start" command). Then, the GUI became stuck displaying "abort current action", and not displaying the field to enter new positions/targets. According to the GUI, the telescope had in fact stopped tracking, but without any possibility to receive further commands.

We restarted the GUI, but the state remained the same, and checked the telescope outside. Then we called the experts, who could solve the problems after some non-trivial intervention.

After finishing the normal start-up procedure, we tried to park out by GUI, but got an error (22:30 local time): "MSG_WARNINGPark_Out_TimeOut"

The Drive, FSM and Command Statuses were "Parked", "in parking Area" and "No command in progress," respectively.

We closed&reopend the GUI and "Park Out" three times, but everytime got the same error.

We then send a message to the WhatsApp group of Drive experts (22:32).

Thierry asked us to restart the server on 10.1.8.3 and we killed the corresponding process (ps -ef | grep MOS), but the statuses didn't change (still FSM "in parking Area").

Thierry asked us to press the "General Abort" button, but didn't improve the situation.

After Ino's intervention (probably, we don't know detail), Thierry asked us to restart the GUI and we did so. The statuses got improved (Drive&FSM: Parked, Command: Started). So, we pushed the park out button, but the same error happend.

Ino suspected if the telescope wasn't unlocked by ALS, but we could visually confirm the ALSs unlocked the telescope properly.

Ino found the problem that "the Flywheel interlock says no motion allowed so PLC refuse to do Park out". He wanted to see the screen shot of Flywheel page. But, we could not connect to the server 10.1.200.1 which means the Flywheel PLC is probably down.

Daniel M. asked us to go to UC1 and we went there (23:45). After some discussion between Daniel and Ino, they asked us to try "stop" -> "run" -> "reset" in the PLC (lower white one, in the cabinet opposite side of the Flywheels). But, still there was no connection to 10.1.200.1 (also no two LEDs in the right side of the PLC turned on). See attachment 1, the LEDs were ON when it was working fine. Attachment 2 was taken tonight (the LEDs were OFF).

Daniel M. suggested us to close the shop because we need Koji's help to fix this problem (00:01).

- CDM images at park out position.
Exposure 100ms.
OARL on.
Leds 255-200-150-100-50-25-10-1

- CDM image  Az=0 Zd=75-70-65-60-55-50-45-40-35-30-25-20-15-10-5-0
 exposure 100ms
OARL on
Leds On 255

Then we track serie of stars, all affected by clouds unfortunately

- Gamma Peg
- Markab
- Vega
- Altair
- Deneb
For each we took 1 image 100ms led/oarl on + 60 1s images led/oarl off
Then we moved by 2 deg on dark region at took 60 1s images
 

We found out a bug in drive repointing that was affecting the image quality in the first seconds after repositionning. It has been correct in drive SW.

The aim was to observe several stars with different magnitude and check the sensitivity of the CDM. We wanted to use a semi-automatic procedure with command sent to the drive via a script to the Acs

After we realized that the telescope was not moving after a StarTracking command we try to use the drive system through the Acs server. StartTracking command not sent to the drive but the other commands (such as StopTracking) worked. 

Instead we used the Semi-expert Gui to make our test. All fine. list of stars observed:

AlphaAqr mag 3.11

10 images with LEDs and OARL

100 images + 100 dark

Homam mag 3.39

10 images with LEDs and OARL

100 images + 100 dark

48-peg mag 3.66

10 images with LEDs and OARL

100 images + 100 dark

24-peg mag 3.87

10 images with LEDs and OARL

100 images + 100 dark

47-peg mag 4.13

10 images with LEDs and OARL

120 images + 120 dark

17 And mag 4.26

10 images with LEDs and OARL

120 images + 120 dark

84Peg mag 4.69

10 images with LEDs and OARL

120 images + 120 dark

56Peg mag 4.91

10 images with LEDs and OARL

180 images + 180 dark

81Peg mag 5.13

10 images with LEDs and OARL

300 images + 300 dark

63 Peg mag 5.70

10 images with LEDs and OARL

400 images + 400 dark

85 Peg mag 5.87

10 images with LEDs and OARL

400 images + 400 dark

Few first images at 5s with LED @1

In the late afternoon shifters noticed the semi-expert drive GUI was not updating, several restarts did not help. Checking into the issue with the drive team connecting from remote it was found that the MOS server is not running and cannot be restarted. This issue could not be solved and will be revisited tomorrow, Jan 17, during the day.

Actions applied for solving this issue: (T. Le Flour)

The status is the following

• The MOS OPCUA Server cannot be relauched since the port used by server was not properly released after the last stop.
• We decided to reboot the VM running on TCS02 but after this operation , the concerned port was still in use.
• By using the commend lsof , we relased the port and relaunched successfully the server.
• Actions : releasing the port has been included in the script used to launch the server to prevent such an issue.

We tracked stars at various zenith angles and changed the Az and Zd offsets, taking images with the PSF camera for each position. After Armand's changes during the day the offset is the same for all Zenith angles.

Star Zd Az
dAz, dZd image

Polaris 61.5 0.7
0, 0 1568923765.fits
0.5, 0 1568923985.fits
0, 0.5 1568924088.fits
0.5, -0.5 1568924324.fits

Eltanin 29.2 327.9
0, 0 1568924558.fits
0.5, 0 1568924683.fits
0, 0.5 1568924747.fits

Benetnasch 66.6 314.7
Vega 15.6 313.8
0, 0 1568925023.fits
0.5, 0 1568925090.fits
0, 0.5

Kochab 57.3 342.0
Sulafat 8.7 299.5
0, 0 1568925265.fits
0.5, 0 1568925420.fits
0, 0.5 1568925485.fits

Alphecca 52.6 283.0
Arcturus 72.2 282.5
Oph Alpha-55 32.2 246.0
Albireo 1.2 229.1
0, 0 1568925734.fits
0.5, 0 1568925842.fits
0, 0.5 1568925917.fits

Nunki 55.8 190.6
Altair 20.2 168.3
Enif 35.7 115.2
Alpheratz 59.0 71.4
Caph 54.8 35.6
Deneb 21.2 33.9
Polaris 61.5 0.7