Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070318 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:24:38 -0700 (MST) From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, March 18, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- D.Bowen D.Bowen DIS 18:50 01:00 J.Frieman H.Lin,D.Tucker, DIS 01:00 07:00 G.Miknaitis,S.Allam, T.Diehl, J.Kubo Brenna Flaugher INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- PU05/R 20:07 01:00 0 0 0 0 4.9 0 0 0 0 UC02/R 01:00 06:15 0 0 0 0 5.3 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: W.Ketzeback Relatively quiet night. Variable seeing most of the night with excellent seeing at the beginning of the night to moderate during much of second half. ------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 18:52 dis-slit -105(170) 177 77 11.1 13.1 12.1 12.4 11.6 - 1.2 00:03 dis-slit -26(139) 199 65 9.9 9.4 8.9 9.5 9.5 - 1.0 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 56 22 11 299 (WNW) 573 ptly cldy none 17:00 61 25 15 261 (W) 618 mstly cldy none 18:00 57 24 13 260 (W) 664 mstly cldy none 19:00 53 21 14 264 (W) 563 mstly cldy none 20:00 52 17 16 246 (WSW) 646 mstly cldy none 21:00 51 11 17 238 (WSW) 578 mstly cldy none 22:00 50 10 16 250 (WSW) 517 ptly cldy none 23:00 50 10 10 255 (WSW) 523 mstly cldy none 00:00 50 10 7 265 (W) 614 mstly cldy none 01:00 50 12 12 286 (WNW) 619 mstly cldy none 02:00 49 13 12 286 (WNW) 686 mstly cldy none 03:00 49 12 10 306 (NW) 679 ptly cldy none 04:00 48 12 4 325 (NW) 607 mstly cldy none 05:00 47 12 7 301 (WNW) 597 ptly cldy none 06:00 47 12 8 46 (NE) 626 ptly cldy 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