From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070915 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:14:48 -0600 (MDT) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, September 15, 2007 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene R.McMillan Fastcam, Echelle 20:00 03:40 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- EN02/W 20:03 05:54 2.2 0 0 0 6.5 1.1 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialists: R.McMillan Tonight had widespread thin clouds, variable seeing, and rising humidity that eventually got me to close early. I took lots of fastcam data. For tomorrow night, there are no high priority tasks, but throughput would be nice to repeat, S-H altitude sweep would be nice to repeat, possibly pointing model would be good to repeat; I can also try to diagnose some intermittent problems that have been cropping up over the past week. Even if tomorrow is completely lost to weather, though, we should be ready for science on Monday night. ------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 63 44 13 213 (SSW) 2972 ptly cldy dust 17:00 64 42 2 184 (S) 3302 ptly cldy dust 18:00 62 41 12 172 (S) 3445 mstly clr dust 19:00 57 41 15 145 (SE) 2604 mstly clr dust 20:00 56 44 16 138 (SE) 1876 mstly clr none 21:00 55 42 19 136 (SE) 2124 ptly cldy none 22:00 56 42 17 138 (SE) 2123 ptly cldy none 23:00 54 43 13 140 (SE) 1357 ptly cldy none 00:00 54 44 16 137 (SE) 372 ptly cldy none 01:00 53 46 18 142 (SE) 85 ptly cldy none 02:00 52 47 15 144 (SE) 8 ptly cldy none 03:00 53 43 11 155 (SSE) 47 ptly cldy humid 04:00 51 46 9 130 (SE) 73 ptly cldy humid 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 1.4