Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:45:18 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20071104 From: "Gabrelle Saurage" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, November 4th, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Walterbos R.Walterbos DIS 17:25 00:01 D.York D.York DIS,ECHELLE 00:10 04:58 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 05:00 06:35 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- NM04/R 18:05 00:05 0 0 0 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 UC04/R 00:05 04:58 0 0 0 0 1.9 3.0 0 0 0 DD02/R 04:58 05:29 0 0 0 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialists: G.Saurage Partially hazy skies, but good seeing. Most of night was smooth. TUI crashed again in the morning both on Obs1 and Dome mac, PR684. Apollo had a successful run. ------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 19:10 dis-slit -164(190) 108 33 9.9 11.8 11.1 10.6 9.8 1.1 21:11 dis-slit -102(107) 97 58 9.3 9.3 9.7 8.5 9.0 1.0 01:18 ECHELLE -98(-728) 269 70 9.2 8.6 9.0 8.4 9.0 0.6 06:20 APOLLO -25(963) 83 38 9.9 8.2 8.7 7.8 9.0 1.5 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 54 28 7 274 (W) 1980 mstly clr none 17:00 50 27 8 279 (W) 1997 mstly clr none 18:00 50 27 13 273 (W) 2238 mstly clr none 19:00 50 28 9 274 (W) 2303 mstly clr none 20:00 49 28 11 265 (W) 2178 mstly clr none 21:00 48 29 12 266 (W) 2078 mstly clr none 22:00 47 29 10 262 (W) 2340 mstly clr none 23:00 48 29 9 265 (W) 2090 mstly clr none 00:00 49 27 16 315 (NW) 1809 mstly clr none 01:00 47 28 10 284 (WNW) 1910 clear none 02:00 47 29 14 318 (NW) 1906 clear none 03:00 46 28 17 331 (NNW) 1795 clear none 04:00 47 25 14 349 (N) 1549 clear none 05:00 50 18 13 333 (NNW) 1182 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