Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:39:23 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070723 From: jdavenport@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, July 23, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- Becker,A. Becker,A., AGILE 21:10 01:13 Mukadam,A. Williams,B. Covarrubias,R. DIS 01:20 05:20 Haggard,D. INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UW05/O 21:09 01:05 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 UW04/R 01:05 05:11 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialists: J. Davenport Nice and clear in the evening and for most of the 1st half. Humidity got fairly high at about 23:30. Had brief sub-arcsec seeing first half, second half seeing stayed above 1.3. Stayed open all night, no problems. ------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:33 AGILE -650(40)* 80 55 14.3 16.6 15.1 15.5 14.6 I 1.5 01:30 DISslit 51(288) 03 57 13.9 12.8 12.4 13.3 13.2 - 1.3 * zero point changed after this measurement ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 64 53 3 142 (SE) 836 mstly clr none 17:00 64 53 15 206 (SSW) 709 mstly clr none 18:00 64 54 9 202 (SSW) 781 clear none 19:00 63 51 6 171 (S) 794 clear none 20:00 59 49 8 145 (SE) 810 clear none 21:00 59 48 7 125 (SE) 781 clear none 22:00 57 48 5 140 (SE) 854 clear none 23:00 57 46 9 131 (SE) 865 mstly clr none 00:00 55 51 6 85 (E) 1874 ptly cldy none 01:00 55 50 2 104 (ESE) 1640 mstly clr none 02:00 56 48 2 190 (S) 1216 mstly clr none 03:00 57 47 3 198 (SSW) 1034 mstly clr none 04:00 56 48 4 237 (WSW) 1235 mstly clr none 05:00 56 50 2 251 (WSW) 1530 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: 2.9.1 Current TUI version: TUI 1.3