Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 05:54:04 -0700 Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20091101 From: Jeff Coughlin Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, November 1, 2009 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Holtzman J.Holtzman,8-Students DIS,SpiCam,Eyepiece 16:30 23:00 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 23:00 00:00 J.Wisniewski J.Wisniewski Echelle 00:00 05:45 NST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NM04/O 17:21 23:00 0 0 0 0 0 5.6 0 0 0 DD01/O 23:00 00:00 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 UW12/R 00:00 06:14 0 0 0 0 0 6.2 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Coughlin Great photometric night with good, but somewhat variable, seeing. No telescope or instrument 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:53 SPICAM 98( 541) 345 57 9.5 11.8 10.7 10.5 10.5 1.00 20:40 dis-slit 53( 169) 290 39 10.1 9.9 10.3 9.3 9.9 1.60 23:35 APOLLO 75( 950) 344 81 10.2 9.8 9.9 9.1 9.5 1.70 00:11 ECHELLE -74( -704) 24 77 10.2 9.7 10.0 9.0 9.6 0.85 Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 53 11 8 55 (NE) 172 clear none 17:00 52 0 7 7 (N) 141 clear none 18:00 49 -1 9 5 (N) 62 clear none 19:00 50 11 12 0 (N) 145 clear none 20:00 50 7 18 22 (NNE) 151 clear none 21:00 52 -2 16 21 (NNE) 41 clear none 22:00 52 -3 22 15 (NNE) 77 clear none 23:00 50 4 13 10 (N) 62 clear none 00:00 49 7 18 17 (NNE) 99 clear none 01:00 50 12 20 25 (NNE) 120 clear none 02:00 51 4 18 31 (NNE) 139 clear none 03:00 54 -1 15 28 (NNE) 184 clear none 04:00 52 0 17 32 (NNE) 107 clear none 05:00 53 0 15 24 (NNE) 137 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: 2.11.1 Current TUI version: TUI 1.6.2