From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070130 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:19:35 -0700 (MST) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, January 30, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Wolf-Chase G.Wolf-Chase,M.Smutko NICFPS --:-- --:-- T.Murphy R.McMillan Apollo --:-- --:-- I.Ivans I.Ivans Echelle --:-- --:-- INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UC06/R 18:29 00:00 0 5.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DD01/O 00:00 01:30 0 1.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PU01/R 01:30 06:04 0 4.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- 1st half Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Heavy fog and light snow at sunset. Continued fog and snow all first half. 2nd half Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Second half remained foggy, with some snow and graupel (total accumulation at the site: around 2 inches). I ran the snow program, turned off the roof heaters when the outside temperature reached -2 C, and checked out GFP and SH. ------- 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 29 29 ?? 11881 cloudy lt snow 17:00 29 30 ?? 1271 cloudy fog 18:00 29 30 ?? 700 cloudy fog 19:00 30 30 ?? 6458 cloudy fog 20:00 30 30 ?? 34678 cloudy snow 21:00 28 28 ?? 2954 cloudy fog 22:00 29 28 ?? 3981 cloudy fog 23:00 30 29 ?? 37639 cloudy fog 00:00 28 26 ?? 1982 cloudy lt snow 01:00 29 26 ?? 1237 cloudy lt snow 02:00 29 26 ?? 1575 cloudy fog 03:00 28 24 ?? 861 cloudy humid 04:00 28 24 ?? 1440 cloudy humid 05:00 27 23 ?? 482 cloudy humid 06:00 26 22 ?? 2587 cloudy humid 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