From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20010310 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 06:01:50 -0700 (MST) APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, March 10th, 2001 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Wyse W.Zheng, M.Houdashelt GRIM-f/5 18:25 20:50 V.Narayanan V.Narayanan, X.Fan GRIM-f/10 --:-- --:-- M.Strauss INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOTUSED I/RO/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- JH06/R 19:01 00:10 0 3.4 0 0 0.5 1.3 0 0 0 PU02/R 00:10 05:25 0 5.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist, 1st Shift: Jack Dembicky Enclosure fans were turned on & louvers opened at 16:15. Enclosure opened at 18:15. Seeing was reported very poor by the Photometric Telescope operator Clouds moved in at 20:50 and I closed the enclosure at 21:25 due to thickening clouds. Observing Specialist, 2nd Shift: Russet McMillan Despite some thinning of clouds between 1 and 2 am, conditions were never really good enough to open. --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ---------------- Air/Truss Wind Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp-C Dir MPH filt FWHM" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:40 GRIM-f/5 -160(546) 113 50 -0.7/1.0 301 15 J 1.42 19:12 NA2gdr -1475(57524) 113 51 -0.7/0.8 292 17 none 1.81 ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------ Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:01 39 15 21 266 (W) 623 pt. cldy none 17:01 37 15 18 269 (W) 2023 pt. cldy none 18:01 33 19 18 283 (WNW) 1963 pt. cldy none 19:01 31 19 18 291 (WNW) 965 pt. cldy none 20:01 29 20 20 304 (NW) 746 mstly cldy none 21:01 29 20 18 294 (WNW) 655 cloudy none 22:01 28 20 19 271 (W) 615 cloudy none 23:01 27 19 14 260 (W) 701 cloudy none 00:01 26 20 21 287 (WNW) 818 mstly cldy none 01:01 26 19 16 282 (WNW) 772 ptly cldy none 02:01 24 19 12 267 (W) 808 ptly cldy none 03:01 24 18 15 273 (W) 821 mstly cldy none 04:01 24 19 17 276 (W) 845 cloudy none 05:01 23 19 16 278 (W) 815 cloudy 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: 2.5.1 Current MC version: v1_7_3.