From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20011218 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:42:42 -0700 (MST) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, December 18th, 2001 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Woodgate B.Woodgate FabryPerot 17:10 23:58 S.Raymond S.Raymond DIS-High 00:08 06:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOTUSED I/RO/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- DD02/O 17:58 00:00 0 0 0 0 3.3 2.7 0 0 0 UW07/R 00:00 06:03 0 0 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- 1st Half Observing Specialist: J.Barentine Opened shortly after 17:00 under clear skies and variable winds, at time bumping up toward the closure condition. Winds kept up through the first half. Seeing varied between 0.80 and 1.00" 2nd Half Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Second half was clear with seeing that was sometimes excellent but never perfectly stable (0.7-1.5 arcsec). Everything worked perfectly. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG/INST FAILURE MODE TIME S/E/G/D/O TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Air/Truss Wind Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp-C Dir MPH filt FWHM --------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:52 GFP -140(522) 77 55 1.1/2.3 24 14 ?? 1.01 17:55 NA2gdr 1558(65558) 77 55 1.1/2.3 14 31 R 1.92 18:58 NA2gdr -2880(61119) 74 38 0.7/1.2 5 16 R 1.40 21:23 GFP 50(568) 89 68 -0.1/-0.2 7 13 6582A 0.68 21:31 NA2gdr 3237(67237) 90 69 -0.3/-0.3 27 16 R 0.92 00:21 DISslit 0(309) 222 49 -1.0/-1.4 25 17 - 0.86 00:23 NA2gdr 1222(58222) 222 49 -1.1/-1.5 26 19 R 0.77 --------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:01 35 -6 12 11 (N) 46 clear none 17:01 35 -11 5 354 (N) 76 clear none 18:01 34 -7 23 15 (NNE) 55 clear none 19:01 33 -5 16 25 (NNE) 68 clear none 20:01 32 -1 17 9 (N) 66 clear none 21:01 32 0 20 12 (NNE) 90 clear none 22:01 31 3 15 2 (N) 132 clear none 23:01 30 3 14 359 (N) 71 clear none 00:01 30 2 18 14 (NNE) 92 clear none 01:01 32 -5 15 42 (NE) 55 clear none 02:01 32 -13 24 52 (NE) 36 clear none 03:01 36 -26 17 49 (NE) 39 clear none 04:01 34 -17 1 200 (SSW) 124 clear none 05:01 34 -18 8 131 (SE) 136 clear none 06:01 35 -21 5 179 (S) 83 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.