From: "Noel Camron Hastings" Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20001229 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:21:40 -0700 APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, December 29th, 2000 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- K.Krisciunas A.Rest SPIcam 17:07 23:59 W.Zheng W.Zheng DIS-Low 00:13 06:24 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOTUSED I/RO/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UW07/R 18:04 00:10 0 0 0 0 3.4 2.7 0 0 0 JH09/R 00:10 06:07 0 0 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist, 1st Shift: J. Dembicky Enclosure fans on at 15:45, Opened enclosure at 17:00. Excellent seeing of 0.70 arc sec at the start of the night! It degraded only slightly and then went back below 0.70 arc sec by 22:00. Everything ran smooth. Observing Specialist, 2nd Shift: Noel Camron Hastings Took over with good seeing and clear skies. Had a little guider trouble right at switchover, but fixed quickly and all ran well for the rest of the evening. The slit viewer was again run remotely without trouble. --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ---------------- Air/Truss Wind Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp-C Dir MPH filt FWHM" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:00 SPIcam -50(545) -78 69 -1.8/-0.7 204 4 r' 0.70" 18:42 NA2 Gdr 133 275 81 -1.4/-1.4 356 11 - 0.70" 21:00 SPIcam 50(680) 332 48 -0.4/-1.5 012 18 r' 1.05" 22:15 SPIcam 100(756) -61 45 -0.1/-1.1 164 7 r' 0.65" 23:20 NA2 Gdr 131(721) 79 46 -0.3/-0.7 057 13 none 0.71" 00:14 DIS Slit 050(512) 220 69 -0.5/-0.8 019 19 none 0.84" 00:16 NA2 Gdr 133(512) 222 69 -0.5/-0.7 019 21 none 0.76" ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------ Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:01 29 21 0 237 (WSW) 421 clear none 17:01 27 19 0 114 (ESE) 440 clear none 18:01 31 5 7 338 (NNW) 327 clear none 19:01 30 7 9 336 (NNW) 306 clear none 20:01 30 5 11 21 (NNE) 272 clear none 21:01 31 2 15 29 (NNE) 237 clear none 22:01 32 0 15 16 (NNE) 205 clear none 23:01 32 1 15 18 (NNE) 276 clear none 00:01 32 0 14 21 (NNE) 226 clear none 01:01 32 -1 3 14 (NNE) 165 clear none 02:01 32 0 3 356 (N) 179 clear none 03:01 31 5 7 43 (NE) 203 cirrus none 04:01 31 4 11 14 (NNE) 187 cirrus none 05:01 31 2 10 2 (N) 165 cirrus none 06:01 32 -6 10 2 (N) 106 cirrus none note: the wind was coming from the azimuth listed. The convention used is north=0 degrees, east=90 degrees. The dust count is particles > 1u per 0.1 cubic feet. TELESCOPE STATUS Primary, secondary, and tertiary mirrors in place and collimated. Primary support system operational. Mirror ventilation system in place. Telescope drives operational. Current Remark version: 2.62. Current guide software version: GIm Ctrlv3.0b27. Current TCC version is 2.4.1 Current MC version: v1_7_3. - Jack Dembicky, Camron Hastings