Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 05:52:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Jack Dembicky Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20080603 Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, June 03, 2008 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Frieman H.Lin, T.Diehl, L.Buckley DIS 19:05 01:00 S.Allam, D.Tucker, J.Peoples M.Gladders M.Bayliss DIS 01:00 05:24 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UC03/R 21:11 01:05 0 0 0 0 3.9 0 0 0 0 UC05/R 01:05 04:52 0 0 0 0 3.8 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialists: J. Dembicky AZ velocity scale measured 581.4, File 578.0, Changed to 580.0 Seeing was rather poor tonight 1.5-2.5 arc sec all night. ------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:37 DISslit 157(673) 35 77 17.7 18.7 18.5 17.9 17.6 -- 1.31 22:50 DISSlit 79(524) -130 53 17.0 17.0 17.4 16.5 16.9 -- 1.57 01:06 DISSlit 41(409) -8 56 15.7 15.8 16.3 15.2 15.7 -- 1.56 03:26 DISSlit 99(435) -89 43 14.6 14.5 14.9 14.3 14.5 -- 1.94 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 71 21 26 266 (W) 1657 clear none 17:00 68 18 38 258 (WSW) 1947 clear none 18:00 69 20 38 267 (W) 2025 clear none 19:00 68 21 20 259 (W) 1331 clear none 20:00 64 21 18 257 (WSW) 1417 clear none 21:00 64 20 24 275 (W) 1644 clear none 22:00 64 20 18 266 (W) 1459 clear none 23:00 63 21 10 267 (W) 1449 clear none 00:00 62 20 13 277 (W) 1341 clear none 01:00 61 20 18 296 (WNW) 1457 clear none 02:00 59 20 9 283 (WNW) 1379 clear none 03:00 58 20 19 270 (W) 1282 clear none 04:00 57 18 19 271 (W) 1150 clear none 05:00 56 18 15 262 (W) 1003 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 1.4.5