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April 2-6, 2007 LGS observing run

Safety documents

Target lists and finder charts

Schedules

Test Plans

Please post your test plans on the Test Plan Library page, and add a link below.
  • BTO alignment (v2.0): doc, pdf
  • NGS Checkout (v3.1): doc, pdf
  • Laser Acquisition (v5.1): doc, pdf
  • LGS target acquisition (v3.4): doc, pdf

  • BTO Setup: doc, pdf
  • BTO Shutdown: doc, pdf
  • Acquisition camera platescale calibration: doc, pdf
  • AO system internal focus: doc, pdf
  • AO bench setup and checkout: doc, pdf
  • AO Optimization on the laser at zenith: doc, pdf
  • LOWFS field curvature: doc
  • Low-order loop optimization: doc, pdf

Night logs and results

4/3/07 UT
Thick to patchy high clouds and excellent seeing (~0.75" in V). Boresighted LLT and checked image quality (<1.2" FWHM stars, ~1.6" FWHM LGS). Much debugging of laser and BTO. Major problems with the AO telemetry system. Laser 4-5W. Debugged acquisition procedures and achieved K Strehl=24% on a bright LGS target despite clouds. 4/3/07 UT Night Log (pdf)
  • Acq. camera NGS platescale: (0.163, 0.182) arcsec/pixel

4/4/07 UT
Patchy to thick high clouds and excellent seeing (0.50-0.75" in V). Failed AO electronics in Cass cage discovered and fixed. Investigated TAO/telemetry software problems but no fix yet found. Optimized LGS-AO performance on bright tip-tilt stars. Laser 4-5 W. Achieved K Strehl 38%. 4/4/07 UT Night Log

  • Acq. camera LGS platescale: ~0.183 arcsec/pixel

4/5/07 UT
Thick high clouds all night. Opened briefly for NGS-AO. Laser 6.3 W. Some in-dome engineering performed. 4/5/07 UT Night Log

4/6/07 UT
Scattered to thick high clouds. Laser 4.5 W. Opened briefly on 2 occasions. Acquired 2 LGS-AO science targets successfully. 4/6/07 Night Log

4/7/07 UT
Clear with some haze. Laser acousto-optic modulator master oscillator is broken, and no target clearance received from US-STRATCOM. Cancelled night for the laser at 23:00. 6/7/07 Night Log

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