From: Russet McMillan Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20080207 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 06:57:28 -0700 (MST) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, February 7, 2008 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- D.York D.York DIS, Echelle 18:05 00:05 S.Anderson S.Anderson,D.Haggard, Agile 00:18 06:10 A.Mukadam INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UC02/R 18:36 00:10 0 0 0 0 5.6 0 0 0 0 UW02/R 00:10 05:58 0 0 0 0 5.8 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialists: R.McMillan A peaceful photometric night with poor seeing (1.5" to >3") and no significant problems. The wind just skimmed the limit and then slowly came down again. I found a minor bug in the gmech focus script. The rotator controller worked well with our heaviest and lightest instruments. I made an error in recording focus, so only second half is listed in the log. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SAEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:38 AGILE -50( -658) 105 60 2.3 1.8 1.5 1.5 2.0 BG40 1.65 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 36 13 8 343 (NNW) 128 clear none 17:00 36 14 8 299 (WNW) 171 clear none 18:00 33 11 6 273 (W) 240 clear none 19:00 33 12 14 270 (W) 603 clear none 20:00 33 12 16 270 (W) 455 clear none 21:00 34 13 18 267 (W) 193 clear none 22:00 36 14 7 308 (NW) 153 clear none 23:00 36 15 21 284 (WNW) 157 clear none 00:00 36 16 29 284 (WNW) 117 clear none 01:00 35 16 19 286 (WNW) 122 clear none 02:00 34 16 21 294 (WNW) 127 clear none 03:00 33 17 20 295 (WNW) 76 clear none 04:00 33 16 20 296 (WNW) 92 clear none 05:00 33 17 14 280 (W) 88 clear none 06:00 34 13 23 312 (NW) 64 clear 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