Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:41:15 -0700 (MST) From: Jack Dembicky Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20071120 Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, November 20, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Wolfe-Chase G.Wolfe-Chase, M.Smutko NICFPS 16:42 22:25 J.Dembicky Echelle 23:25 00:05 O.Fraiser K.Kinemuchi DIS 02:05 06:25 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UC03/R 17:56 00:05 0 1.0 0 0.5 0 4.7 0 0 0 UW14/R 00:05 05:42 0 2.0 0 0 2.5 2.1 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky NICFPS started reading all zero's. It took a few reboots of the ICS to get things back up and running. No problems otherwise. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UC03 N I/S 18:45 19:15 NICFPS started giving all 0;s in the images. rebooted ICS a couple times. ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:28 NICFPS 44(803) 139 49 9.2 10.9 10.2 9.6 9.2 H 0.8 18:01 NICFPS -101(632) 141 53 9.2 9.9 9.7 8.5 8.7 H 0.7 20:32 NICFPS -136(489) 192 61 7.5 7.4 7.9 6.8 7.1 Ks 0.8 21:44 NICFPS -118(488) 05 56 7.0 6.9 7.4 6.2 6.9 Ks 1.1 23:43 Echelle -119(-826) 191 72 7.4 6.8 7.3 6.6 7.2 ND2 1.3 02:18 DISSlit -150(-71) 262 69 6.7 6.5 6.8 6.3 6.5 -- 1.3 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions --------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 50 17 12 269 (W) 782 cirrus none 17:00 49 17 15 267 (W) 1309 cirrus none 18:00 49 14 18 263 (W) 954 cirrus none 19:00 47 15 14 261 (W) 1110 cirrus none 20:00 46 15 18 268 (W) 2699 cirrus none 21:00 45 16 14 271 (W) 1478 cirrus none 22:00 45 15 10 279 (W) 1180 clouds none 23:00 45 12 19 288 (WNW) 886 cirrus none 00:00 45 14 19 295 (WNW) 745 ciouds none 01:00 45 17 20 272 (W) 807 clouds none 02:00 44 18 15 284 (WNW) 969 cirrus none 03:00 43 18 30 280 (W) 1063 clear none 04:00 42 18 17 288 (WNW) 974 clear none 05:00 42 19 19 261 (W) 917 clear none 06:00 41 20 16 280 (W) 947 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: 2.9.1 Current TUI version: TUI 1.4.1