From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070520 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:02:42 -0600 (MDT) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, May 20, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Verbiscer A.Verbiscer SPIcam 20:00 00:30 A.Mukadam A.Mukadam,P.Szkody Agile 01:45 06:40 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UV01/R 20:59 01:00 0.5 0 0 0 0 3.5 0 0 0 UW01/R 01:00 05:00 0.7 0 0 0 3.3 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Despite multiple clouds systems moving in different directions at different altitudes, we were able to open at sunset and stay open most of the night. Converging echoes on radar made us close for a while around the program change, but turned out to be mostly noise. Everything worked perfectly on telescope and instruments. A DNS failure in the evening was quickly cleared up by Fritz. ------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:45 Spicam 125(580) 43 33 10.4 13.02 11.64 11.78 10.66 R 1.75 02:00 Agile -125(459) 107 63 7.6 8.46 7.99 8.48 7.72 BG40 1.15 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 61 31 14 203 (SSW) 494 ptly cldy none 17:00 60 31 12 237 (WSW) 561 ptly cldy none 18:00 53 37 9 56 (NE) 929 ptly cldy none 19:00 58 31 11 222 (SW) 667 ptly cldy none 20:00 53 31 10 238 (WSW) 719 ptly cldy none 21:00 51 36 9 216 (SW) 1115 ptly cldy none 22:00 50 36 8 168 (SSE) 1457 ptly cldy none 23:00 49 36 8 186 (S) 1461 ptly cldy none 00:00 49 34 8 185 (S) 870 ptly cldy none 01:00 49 34 14 176 (S) 601 ptly cldy none 02:00 46 35 16 138 (SE) 570 ptly cldy none 03:00 47 33 11 174 (S) 504 mstly clr none 04:00 47 34 11 166 (SSE) 501 mstly clr none 05:00 47 35 11 180 (S) 610 mstly clr none 06:00 45 35 9 176 (S) 804 mstly clr 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