From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20060726 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:51:38 -0600 (MDT) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, July 26, 2006 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Shin M.Shin,M.Oguri DIS --:-- --:-- B.Lawton B.Lawton DIS --:-- --:-- INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- PU02/R 21:06 01:10 3.8 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NM05/R 01:10 05:14 4.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- 1st half Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Complete overcast at sunset, lots of radar activity within the county N & S of us. Raining at 9:10pm. Humidity over 85% around 10:30pm. Rained on and off rest of 1st half. 2nd half Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Light but persistent sprinkles from midnight onward. I did some accounting and scripting work. ------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 66 46 7 108 (ESE) 736 mstly cldy none 17:00 69 43 8 134 (SE) 817 cloudy none 18:00 70 42 7 172 (S) 766 cloudy none 19:00 70 41 7 186 (S) 743 cloudy none 20:00 68 41 12 180 (S) 742 cloudy none 21:00 65 45 5 336 (NNW) 1489 cloudy lt rain 22:00 64 46 9 16 (NNE) 1423 cloudy lt rain 23:00 55 51 21 71 (ENE) 1320 cloudy lt rain 00:00 56 50 9 81 (E) 989 cloudy lt rain 01:00 57 50 15 21 (NNE) 964 cloudy lt rain 02:00 57 48 9 357 (N) 485 cloudy lt rain 03:00 56 48 18 9 (N) 367 cloudy lt rain 04:00 56 47 9 4 (N) 290 cloudy lt rain 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