From: "Noel Camron Hastings" Subject: 3.5m Night Log 2001110 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 05:54:32 -0700 APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, November 10th, 2001 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- D.York P.Palunas,E.Wassell, GFP 18:30 23:55 D.York,V.Kulkarni A.Ptak A.Ptak DIS 01:05 06:02 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOTUSED I/RO/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UC03/R 18:00 00:00 0.5 0 0 0 5.5 0 0 0 0 JH04/R 00:00 05:34 0 0 0 0 2.4 3.2 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- FAILURE LOG ------------- PROG/INST FAILURE MODE TIME S/E/G/D/O T/I/U-S/H START FINISH DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- First Half Observing Specialist: J. Dembicky I opened the enclosure/mirror covers around 17:30 under overcast, but improving, skies to start cooling. Clouds parted ways around 18:20 and we setting up and taking focus data around 18:50 with 0.86 arc sec seeing. We had excellent seeing all first half and most of the time in the 0.8 arc sec or better range. Second Half Observing Specialist: C. Hastings Second half started without incident under clear skies. Ran smoothly all night long. ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Air/Truss Wind Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp-C Dir MPH filt FWHM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:48 GFP 100(817) 159 70 5.6/6.4 279 6 4313 0.86" 18:51 NA2 Gdr 1339(65339) 159 70 5.6/6.4 279 6 R 1.06" 20:32 GFP 50(756) 226 64 5.9/5.7 274 4 4313 0.77" 20:41 NA2 Gdr 1888(65888) 229 63 6.1/5.8 290 3 clear 0.79" 00:18 DIS Slit -25(578) 17 37 4.6/5.4 267 4 none 1.15" 00:23 NA2 Gdr 1000(58001) 18 38 4.8/5.4 261 3 clear 1.06" --------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:01 43 34 3 231 (SW) 222 Cloudy none 17:01 44 33 1 258 (WSW) 763 Cloudy none 18:01 42 31 5 351 (N) 1321 Pt. Cldy none 19:01 42 29 7 286 (WNW) 1307 Clear none 20:01 43 29 7 282 (WNW) 1398 Clear none 21:01 43 30 1 266 (W) 2022 Clear none 22:01 43 30 3 264 (W) 1407 Clear none 23:01 43 30 1 304 (NW) 1395 Clear none 00:01 43 30 4 271 (W) 1768 Clear none 01:01 43 29 4 266 (W) 613 Clear none 02:01 42 30 4 277 (W) 607 Clear none 03:01 43 28 4 284 (WNW) 188 Clear none 04:01 40 28 1 263 (W) 198 Clear none 05:01 39 28 6 270 (W) 162 Clear 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 Ctrlv4.1b2. Current TCC version: 2.5.5 Current MC version: v1_7_3.