Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20050416 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:06:50 -0600 (MDT) From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, April 16, 2005 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Covarrubias R.Covarrubias DIS 18:30 20:50 M.Strauss X.Fan NICFPS 03:00 05:00 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/RO/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UW03/R 20:30 01:00 0 4.2 0 0 0 0.3 0 0 0 PU06/R 01:00 05:35 0.5 2.1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: W.Ketzeback Thundershowers in the early evening closed us down after a short time on the sky and most of second half had returning clouds and rain. Second half the observer pointed out that the nicfps images looked of the wrong dimensions. I called F.Hearty who instructed me to restart the ICS. For the short duration I had tonight to use the guider it worked fine. I spent most of my night working on fastcam data and a web based observing tools. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEGDFNVO) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Air/Truss Wind Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp-C Dir MPH filt FWHM --------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:03 dis-slit -150(1023) 22 71 7.9/9.1 127 23 - 1.49 20:21 NA2gdr -13000(20100) 12 72 7.7/8.7 121 21 R+nd2 1.76 03:17 nicfps 25(1427) 209 75 6.4/5.4 89 1 MkJ 0.97 03:25 NA2gdr -7000(40100) 216 74 6.7/5.5 87 2 R+nd2 0.9 04:12 nicfps 150(1622) 276 37 6.6/5.5 63 4 MkJ 0.8 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:01 48 32 13 108 (ESE) 843 mstly clear none 17:01 48 33 15 109 (ESE) 822 clear none 18:01 49 34 1 108 (ESE) 943 clear none 19:01 48 29 18 152 (SSE) 841 clear none 20:01 46 29 22 125 (SE) 835 mstly clear none 21:01 46 28 16 116 (ESE) 749 cloudy rain 22:01 46 30 12 297 (WNW) 0 cloudy rain 23:01 36 36 10 349 (NNW) 1275 cloudy fog 00:01 37 32 2 297 (WNW) 1177 cloudy fog 01:01 41 32 8 321 (NW) 1324 cloudy rain 02:01 41 32 5 307 (NW) 1241 cloudy none 03:01 43 28 0 89 (E) 0 mstly clear none 04:01 44 28 1 37 (NE) 1416 mstly clear none 05:01 44 28 1 88 (E) 1489 mstly cldy none 06:01 42 32 4 266 (W) 1383 mstly cldy 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. Note: The Tower Dust counter appears to be down at this time TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current Remark version: 2.85b Current TCC version: 2.7.2 Current TUI version: TUI 0.94