From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070311 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:24:39 -0700 (MST) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, March 11, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Shin M.Shin,M.Oguri DIS --:-- --:-- R.Overzier R.Overzier DIS --:-- --:-- T.Murphy R.McMillan Apollo --:-- --:-- INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- PU04/R 20:01 01:00 5.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 JH04/0 01:00 05:55 1.6 3.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 UW15/0 05:55 06:23 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- 1st Half Observing Specialist: G.Saurage High humidity and high winds all first half. 2nd Half Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Humidity and wind decreased second half, but at the same time the clouds got even thicker and radar showed rain coming uncomfortably close. I worked on various paperwork tasks for APO and APOLLO, and also did some simple diagnostics for the APOLLO laser. ------- 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 32 25 10 87 (E) 509 ptly cldy humid 17:00 35 26 25 73 (ENE) 561 ptly cldy humid 18:00 35 29 22 73 (ENE) 597 ptly cldy lt snow 19:00 33 28 27 65 (ENE) 501 mstly clr humid 20:00 32 29 23 68 (ENE) 351 ptly cldy humid 21:00 31 30 39 69 (ENE) 105 mstly clr humid 22:00 31 30 23 62 (ENE) 158 mstly clr humid 23:00 31 29 28 70 (ENE) 504 ptly cldy humid 00:00 32 28 28 58 (ENE) 489 mstly clr humid 01:00 32 28 25 69 (ENE) 425 mstly cldy none 02:00 31 28 29 48 (NE) 351 cloudy none 03:00 32 27 20 54 (NE) 331 cloudy none 04:00 32 25 18 62 (ENE) 364 cloudy none 05:00 31 25 5 17 (NNE) 363 cloudy none 06:00 32 24 14 57 (ENE) 250 cloudy 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 1.3