Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 05:54:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Jack Dembicky Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070510 Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, May 10, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Szkody P.Szkody DIS 19:40 01:00 J.Carlin J.Carlin, S.Majewski DIS 01:00 06:30 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UW05/R 20:50 01:00 0 0 0 0 4.2 0 0 0 0 UV03/O 01:00 05:09 0 0 0 0 1.2 3.0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky We had the Slitviewer loose connection once during the second half. A hub startNubs reconnected things. Users noted that the NAME field in the Slew window did not seem to appear to be copied into the FITS header anywhere. The image type was also type "comp", when Object was selected in the DIS expose window. No problems otherwise ------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:17 DISSlit 144(254) 108 53 7.4 8.8 7.3 7.9 7.4 -- 1.1 22:31 DISslit -87(-9) -84 56 7.0 7.1 6.4 7.0 6.9 -- 1.3 01:05 DISslit -127(-69) 2 32 6.2 5.8 5.2 5.7 5.8 -- 2.1 02:56 DISslit -69(4) 216 66 7.8 7.2 6.5 7.1 7.5 -- 1.0 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions --------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 48 37 8 272 (W) 453 cldy rain 17:00 45 35 6 277 (W) 431 cldy none 18:00 43 37 2 8 (N) 407 cldy none 19:00 47 34 6 277 (W) 325 pt. cldy none 20:00 45 33 2 300 (WNW) 326 clear none 21:00 45 32 6 329 (NNW) 332 clear none 22:00 45 32 9 324 (NW) 408 clear none 23:00 44 33 5 354 (N) 344 clear none 00:00 45 32 5 4 (N) 401 clear none 01:00 43 33 8 335 (NNW) 353 clear none 02:00 46 27 11 321 (NW) 365 clear none 03:00 46 28 13 16 (NNE) 366 clear none 04:00 46 28 8 4 (N) 415 clear none 05:00 46 28 11 13 (NNE) 367 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