Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070709 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:20:08 -0600 (MDT) From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, July 9, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Plotkin R.Plotkin NICFPS 21:17 00:55 K.Lee K.Lee DIS 01:10 02:30 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UW02/R 21:17 01:05 0 0 0 0 3.8 0 0 0 0 PU02/O 01:05 05:00 0 2.7 0 0 0.9 0.3 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialists: B. Ketzeback Partly cloudy skies most of the night. Clouds just became too think middle of second half to collect data. My second half observer gave up at 4am. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:13 NICFPS -131(979) -6 78 18.0 19.3 18.1 19.0 18.1 H 0.7 01:33 dis-slit -37(435) 305 70 16.3 15.3 14.9 15.8 15.6 -- 1.4 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 67 41 16 113 (ESE) 577 mstly clr none 17:00 69 43 1 175 (S) 738 mstly clr none 18:00 68 42 10 135 (SE) 599 mstly clr none 19:00 65 42 11 109 (ESE) 649 mstly clr none 20:00 65 40 13 108 (ESE) 899 mstly clr none 21:00 64 37 14 133 (SE) 545 mstly clr none 22:00 63 40 17 123 (ESE) 480 mstly clr none 23:00 62 41 17 82 (E) 489 mstly clr none 00:00 59 43 15 111 (ESE) 651 mstly clr none 01:00 60 43 12 108 (ESE) 601 clear none 02:00 61 43 15 149 (SSE) 625 mstly cldy none 03:00 61 44 7 180 (S) 679 mstly cldy none 04:00 62 44 11 183 (S) 643 mstly 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: 2.9.1 Current TUI version: TUI 1.3