Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070106 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 04:31:01 -0700 (MST) From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, January 06, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Plotkin R.Plotkin Nicfps --:-- --:-- T.Means T.Means Echelle --:-- --:-- INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UW12/R 18:10 00:00 2.2 3.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 UW11/R 00:00 06:09 0 6.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback This afternoon I determined there was too much snow on the enclosure for us to open tonight. I ran the snow program all evening while I worked on collecting and reducing some gain and read noise data for the NA2 Guider. ------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:02 23 18 5 335 (NNW) 201 clear humid 17:02 21 20 8 308 (NW) 170 clear none 18:02 20 19 9 324 (NW) 154 clear none 19:02 21 12 18 16 (NNE) 129 clear none 20:02 23 1 12 20 (NNE) 72 clear none 21:02 23 9 16 360 (N) 84 clear none 22:02 22 11 18 0 (N) 66 clear none 23:02 22 9 20 1 (N) 108 clear none 00:02 24 -4 15 353 (N) 103 clear none 01:02 24 -2 22 350 (N) 84 clear none 02:02 23 2 15 14 (NNE) 148 clear none 03:02 23 0 23 30 (NNE) 143 clear none 04:02 24 7 28 8 (N) 293 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: 2.8.5 Current TUI version: TUI 1.2