Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20050612 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:03:20 -0600 (MDT) From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, June 12, 2005 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.York B.Ketzeback,F.Hearty SPIcam,NicFps 20:30 00:50 J.Holtzman B.Lawton DIS 01:05 06:05 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/RO/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UC08/W 21:15 01:00 0 0 0 0 0.4 3.4 0 0 0 NM07/R 01:00 04:51 0 0 0 0 3.9 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback Seeing was moderate at the start of the night however it did not stay that way long. Seeing was highly variable and quite poor until about 2400. Then it calmed down for the rest of the night to around an arcsec. Skies remained clear and photometric all night. There were no other problems. ------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:12 SPIcam 50(1610) 230 59 13.4/14.1 215 16 r 1.15 21:17 NA2gdr -1618(29481)231 59 13.2/14.0 237 18 R+nd2 0.94 22:09 SPIcam 100(1705) 80 38 12.9/13.2 262 16 z 1.11 23:53 nicfps 100(1831) 48 59 12.3/12.3 266 13 H 1.2 01:08 dis-slit -25(1256) 112 75 11.6/11.9 266 8 - 1.12 01:11 NA2gdr -3307(21792)115 74 11.6/11.9 269 8 R+nd2 0.86 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:01 62 31 18 266 (W) 829 clear none 17:01 60 29 15 284 (WNW) 838 clear none 18:01 61 30 10 292 (WNW) 966 clear none 19:01 61 30 17 290 (WNW) 952 clear none 20:01 58 29 9 260 (W) 999 clear none 21:01 56 32 14 265 (W) 1305 clear none 22:01 56 32 13 244 (WSW) 1338 clear none 23:01 54 31 18 264 (W) 1325 clear none 00:01 54 30 12 267 (W) 1222 clear none 01:01 53 31 10 276 (W) 1261 clear none 02:01 55 32 1 27 (NNE) 1125 clear none 03:01 55 29 16 10 (N) 778 clear none 04:01 54 27 19 25 (NNE) 533 clear none 05:01 54 28 18 32 (NNE) 565 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 Telescope drives operational. Current Remark version: 2.85b Current TCC version: 2.7.2 Current TUI version: TUI 0.94