From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20060818 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:07:21 -0600 (MDT) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, August 18, 2006 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Covarrubias R.Covarrubias DIS --:-- --:-- E.Hoversten E.Hoversten DIS --:-- --:-- INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UW06/R 20:41 01:10 4.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 JH02/R 01:10 05:33 1.1 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- 1st Half Observing Specialist: G.Saurage High humidity and complete overcast at sunset. Lightning and radar activity all around Sacramento Mts. Humidity bounced around a few times, but the sky never cleared enough to warrant opening. Heavy radar activity continued around the county all 1st half. 2nd Half Observing Specialist: R.McMillan High humidity, overcast, a little bit of rain second half. I worked on some monitoring scripts. ------- 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 58 55 8 81 (E) 645 mstly clr humid 17:00 62 44 13 55 (NE) 174 mstly clr humid 18:00 62 54 6 281 (W) 548 mstly cldy none 19:00 59 55 1 252 (WSW) 530 ptly cldy humid 20:00 58 55 1 277 (W) 497 mstly clr humid 21:00 58 52 2 209 (SSW) 490 cloudy humid 22:00 57 52 1 128 (SE) 558 cloudy humid 23:00 58 51 0 226 (SW) 442 mstly cldy none 00:00 55 54 2 302 (WNW) 615 cloudy lt rain 01:00 53 50 2 16 (NNE) 301 cloudy humid 02:00 51 49 11 68 (ENE) 644 cloudy humid 03:00 52 49 9 86 (E) 267 cloudy humid 04:00 55 47 0 170 (S) 240 cloudy humid 05:00 56 47 1 244 (WSW) 193 cloudy none 06:00 55 49 7 175 (S) 269 cloudy 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