From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070313 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:23:44 -0700 (MST) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, March 13, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Overzier R.Overzier DIS 19:15 00:48 Q.Hart Q.Hart SPIcam 01:11 07:00 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- JH04/O 20:03 01:00 0 0 0 0 4.9 0 0 0 0 CU01/R 01:00 06:22 0 0 0 0 3.3 2.1 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- 1st Half Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Clear skies. Moderate seeing. Productive night for science data acquisition. 2nd Half Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Second half continued clear, with subarcsecond seeing at the beginning and end, mediocre seeing for a while in the middle. Very peaceful and productive. ------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:30 DISslit -145(205) 121 74 8.1 7.5 6.6 6.8 7.3 --- 1.0 01:19 SPIcam 0(262) 140 64 8.6 8.33 7.74 7.99 8.25 r 0.93 01:30 NA2gdr -4300 142 65 8.6 8.28 7.72 7.92 8.22 Clr 0.87 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 45 27 9 309 (NW) 407 clear none 17:00 45 27 1 332 (NNW) 320 clear none 18:00 46 27 15 330 (NNW) 361 clear none 19:00 45 25 7 328 (NNW) 333 clear none 20:00 46 24 10 291 (WNW) 380 clear none 21:00 47 23 8 298 (WNW) 395 clear none 22:00 47 22 13 284 (WNW) 388 clear none 23:00 47 20 16 292 (WNW) 589 clear none 00:00 48 20 17 296 (WNW) 485 clear none 01:00 48 18 12 319 (NW) 384 clear none 02:00 47 20 9 28 (NNE) 327 clear none 03:00 48 20 22 356 (N) 300 mstly clr none 04:00 47 20 14 354 (N) 296 mstly clr none 05:00 46 21 12 25 (NNE) 301 clear none 06:00 47 18 20 19 (NNE) 223 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: 2.9.0 Current TUI version: TUI 1.3