ut 28 oct 2011 CHARA/CLIMB -- T Tauri run PJ, Alicia, Rafael setup: S2E2W2 POPs 215 - start of night [can actually observe all night] S1E1W1 POPs 321 - TTS pre-transit S1E1W1 POPs 325 - TTS post-transit --- S2E2W2 POPs 215 beam 1 = S2 beam 2 = E2 = REF beam 3 = W2 PST 06:45 = UT 01:45 - telescopes inited on delta del. clear, seeing seems good. ut 02:03 - all fringes found on delta del NIRO 1000Hz DEST NIRO align +6200um/-550um ut 02:35 - HD190771 cal for mwc342 NIRO align NIRO 2000Hz NONDEST fast rate needed to avoid saturation, esp on 1/2. +5700um/-770um ut 03:00 - mwc342 no fringes change NIRO rate to 1000Hz saturation beams unbalanced close app beam2 to 1/4 no fringes search in 750Hz DEST i think i see a fringe in 23 ... slow down more 500Hz DEST still don't see fringes in the other 2 baselines ... slow down more 250Hz DEST nada ... tried to take some data at 500Hz for the 23 baseline but fringes almost never there, aborted ut 03:36 - HD194708 cal for v1685cyg +5700um/-800um ut 04:00 - v1685 cyg = CHARA ID 320079 not finding fringes on 12 again ... fringes on 23 look fine ... checking some things: beam1 contributes very little flux to one of the 12 fringes ... re-did NIRO align looking for fringes more ... not found on 12 ... we noted that on the cal the 12 fringes have low amplitude too ... ut 05:00 - out of delay on early night targets. going for T Tauri cluster change config to: S1E1W1 POPs 321 ut 05:30 - telescope init on HD11928 ut 06:00 - fringes check on HD11363 issues with S1 oscillations. not finding these fringes on the shortest S1W1 baseline ... ut 07:00 - try a fainter but smaller star - previously used HD24365 having issues with S1 acquisition ... star is seen in finder but not in ACQ as if gain dead ... power cycled acq camera at S1 bunker now S1 seems to have correct default ACQ and FIND gains, but still not adjustable from GUI ... we can at least now acquire this star (V=7), let's try to get the fringe offsets ... totally lost in time ticks now ... IRIMAGE soft reboot ... did not fix it ... ut 10:19 - Theo looking into the climb server time ticks problem from Paris ... ut 11:00 - problem fixed after accidentally touching the climb clock card connector! ut 11:25 - HD50277 - get fringe offsets for tomorrow +800um/+2300um ut 11:35 - HD240764 = rw Aur - test fainter acquisition for tomorrow - V=10 cannot acquire it due to the problem of bad gain in FINDER/ACQ. so forget about our V=12 TTS ... we really need this fixed for tomorrow! ---