From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070121 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:07:58 -0700 (MST) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, January 21, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Holtzman -- -- --:-- --:-- D.Bowen -- -- --:-- --:-- INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- NM03/R 18:22 00:00 3.4 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PU03/R 00:00 06:07 6.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan More snow, blowing snow, high winds, high humidity. I ran the snow program for a few hours until a power outage tripped an interlock I was unable to clear. The telescope is facing north. The power outage also triggered another warmup for DIS, again into the mid-70s. I investigated a non-thermal dark current issue with DIS, evaluated a potential new flat-field paint with SPIcam, and did some aliveness tests of CorMASS. ------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 23 22 ?? 295 mstly cldy none 17:00 22 15 ?? 177 mstly cldy none 18:00 21 20 ?? 310 mstly cldy none 19:00 20 19 ?? 223 cloudy none 20:00 19 18 ?? 214 cloudy lt snow 21:00 19 18 ?? 489 cloudy lt snow 22:00 18 17 ?? 145 cloudy lt snow 23:00 16 14 ?? 93 cloudy lt snow 00:00 14 11 ?? 1939 cloudy lt snow 01:00 13 10 ?? 1389 mstly cldy lt snow 02:00 12 9 ?? 293 mstly cldy lt snow 03:00 11 8 ?? 525 mstly cldy lt snow 04:00 10 8 ?? 1470 mstly cldy lt snow 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: 2.8.5 Current TUI version: TUI 1.2