Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20081001 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:33:39 +0000 (UTC) From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, October 1, 2008 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Balick B.Balick DIS 17:30 07:00 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UW06/R 19:40 06:05 0 0 0 0 10.1 0.3 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback Clear skies. Seeing was good most of the night and started to degrade some in the last few hours of the evening. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:30 dis-slit -273( 72) 94 56 11.5 15.0 12.8 13.4 12.2 -- 1.17 19:35 NA2gdr 1120(23120) 93 58 11.3 14.9 12.9 13.2 12.1 R+nd2 1.01 01:13 dis-slit -59( 25) 263 51 10.3 9.6 9.8 8.6 9.6 -- 1.05 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 60 34 9 262 (W) 1054 clear none 17:00 58 34 2 240 (WSW) 976 clear none 18:00 57 33 10 216 (SW) 1079 clear none 19:00 53 30 2 242 (WSW) 1012 clear none 20:00 51 30 10 128 (SE) 1073 clear none 21:00 51 29 9 162 (SSE) 1044 clear none 22:00 51 30 8 146 (SE) 1192 clear none 23:00 51 31 9 156 (SSE) 1290 clear none 00:00 50 31 9 160 (SSE) 1220 clear none 01:00 50 30 8 162 (SSE) 1265 clear none 02:00 50 28 7 176 (S) 1095 clear none 03:00 50 25 5 183 (S) 939 clear none 04:00 51 24 2 194 (SSW) 996 clear none 05:00 51 24 1 219 (SW) 998 clear none 06:00 50 24 1 236 (SW) 935 clear none TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.9.1 Current TUI version: TUI 1.5.1