From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20061102 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:02:43 -0700 (MST) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, November 2, 2006 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Bally J.Bally + students DIS,SPIcam 17:20 00:00 J.Holtzman R.Hamilton DIS 00:00 05:40 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- CU01/O 18:06 00:00 0 0 0 0 0 5.7 0 0 0 NM05/R 00:00 05:28 0 0 0 0 1.3 4.2 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- 1st Half Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Thin clouds on and off all first half. Bally's class spent some time with eyepiece, SPIcam for a few hours, then DIS. They were able to get data for several different programs during the 1st half. The seeing was variable at the beginning of the evening, but overall stayed between good to moderate. 2nd Half Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Second half was peaceful, with varying high clouds and poor to moderate seeing. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM ----------------------------------------------------------------- 18:10 NA2guider -50(215) -43 29 7.3 8.2 6.5 6.9 7.1 -- 2.9 19:10 DISslit -75(25) -105 32 7.9 7.4 6.4 6.6 6.9 -- 1.3 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:01 47 21 5 272 (W) 508 mstly clr none 17:01 43 21 1 248 (WSW) 451 mstly clr none 18:01 45 -1 1 116 (ESE) 305 mstly clr none 19:01 46 -17 1 178 (S) 141 ptly cldy none 20:01 46 -17 3 137 (SE) 126 mstly clr none 21:01 46 -10 1 138 (SE) 112 mstly clr none 22:01 43 -4 6 177 (S) 155 ptly cldy none 23:01 42 5 2 169 (S) 237 ptly cldy none 23:01 42 5 2 169 (S) 237 ptly cldy none 00:01 42 9 11 170 (S) 206 ptly cldy none 01:01 40 15 8 175 (S) 266 ptly cldy none 02:01 42 20 10 176 (S) 334 ptly cldy none 03:01 43 19 15 180 (S) 331 ptly cldy none 04:01 43 19 15 178 (S) 293 mstly clr none 05:01 43 19 11 184 (S) 298 mstly clr 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 TCC version: 2.8.4 Current TUI version: TUI 1.2