From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20060429 Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:35:53 -0600 (MDT) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, April 29, 2006 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Frieman H.Lin,T.Diehl, SPIcam 19:45 05:30 G.Miknaitis INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UC03/R 20:41 05:20 0 0 0 0 6.9 1.7 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Lovely peaceful night with clear skies and seeing from 0.8 to 1.5 arcseconds. Telescope and instrument both happy. The only challenge was following the focus changes during the times of better seeing. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Air/Truss Wind Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp-C Dir MPH filt FWHM --------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:47 SPIcam 15(923) 254 54 5.6/5.5 305 10 g' 1.01 20:50 NA2gdr -3090(29909)255 54 5.7/5.6 286 5 R 0.87 01:07 SPIcam 60(979) 311 52 6.6/5.7 242 17 g 1.3 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:01 42 21 7 4 (N) 1297 clear none 17:01 43 16 1 337 (NNW) 1298 clear none 18:01 45 17 6 359 (N) 1332 clear none 19:01 44 15 1 344 (NNW) 1470 clear none 20:01 42 17 1 295 (WNW) 1472 clear none 21:01 42 18 6 271 (W) 1428 clear none 22:01 42 22 13 286 (WNW) 1965 clear none 23:01 44 22 11 263 (W) 2506 clear none 00:01 43 21 13 260 (W) 2330 clear none 01:01 43 21 12 269 (W) 2443 clear none 02:01 43 21 7 251 (WSW) 2444 clear none 03:01 42 22 6 213 (SSW) 2349 clear none 04:01 42 22 5 189 (S) 2456 clear none 05:01 42 20 7 231 (SW) 2971 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 TCC version: 2.8.3 Current TUI version: TUI 1.1