Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:20:02 -0700 (MST) From: Jack Dembicky Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20080122 Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, January 22, 2008 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Drosback M.Drosback, K.O'Malia, Echelle 16:40 21:10 J.Destree, O.Martinez T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 00:10 00:50 P.Szkody P.Szkody, A.Mukadam AGILE 04:05 05:57 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- CU01/O 18:22 00:10 0 3.0 0 0.3 0 2.5 0 0 0 DD01/R 00:10 01:10 0 0.3 0 0 0 0.7 0 0 0 UW06/R 01:10 06:07 0 3.2 0 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky I tried the TertPoint script tonight with the Echelle. Got the following error (after it slewed to the reference star) Failed: global name 'startListList' is not defined. I used the echpoint to fix the pointing instead. 18:20 Slitty computer crashed hard, reboot to fix. Lost communications and needed 3 finger reboot of computer. 03:16:10UT AZ dump 21:10 clouds started to swamp us. Closed dome We re-opened for APOLLO at the start of it's shift, to try for the moon but no returns and lots of clouds. We checked pointing with AGILE using a bright star Russet gave up with APOLLO and Russet adjusted the AGILE instrument block to fix the pointing. We then closed before the start of the 3rd program due to thick clouds and possible precip heading our direction. We re-opened around 04:05 and the clouds again closed us at 05:57. Anjum reported that the 2 objects that she slewed to were well aligned in AGILE after Russet's pointing corrections. 13:13:09 AZ dump ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CU01 G I/H 18:20 18:40 Slitty computer crashed hard lost communication and needed hard reboot of computer (via Slitty keyboard, 3 finger salute) ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:43 Echelle 21(-1065) 123 72 -1.3 0.3 0.0 -0.8 -1.0 ND3 1.0 18:37 Echelle -87(-1229) 148 80 -1.6 -0.7 -0.6 -1.8 -1.6 ND3 1.7 00:19 APOLLO 100(556) 55 58 -0.9 -1.0 -0.6 -1.1 -1.0 -- 1.5 04:12 AGILE 50(-690) 142 68 -0.3 -0.8 -0.4 -1.1 -0.9 BG40 0.6 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions --------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 34 0 14 205 (SSW) 728 cirrus none 17:00 32 0 9 190 (S) 841 cirrus none 18:00 29 -2 8 194 (SSW) 903 cirrus none 19:00 30 -3 3 181 (S) 899 cirus none 20:00 31 -3 7 203 (SSW) 806 cirrus none 21:00 30 -3 11 195 (SSW) 782 cldy none 22:00 31 0 11 234 (SW) 791 cldy none 23:00 30 -1 14 229 (SW) 764 cldy none 00:00 30 -1 12 259 (W) 679 mst. cldy none 01:00 31 -10 13 262 (W) 566 cldy none 02:00 31 -2 16 258 (WSW) 494 cldy none 03:00 31 0 13 248 (WSW) 426 cldy none 04:00 31 6 11 259 (W) 394 cirrus none 05:00 31 5 15 263 (W) 384 cirrus none 06:00 31 11 11 264 (W) 392 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 1.4.4