Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:14:37 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090317 From: "Jack Dembicky" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, March 17, 2009 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- E.Hilton E.Hilton AGILE 18:40 01:4 K.Chiu K.Chiu SPIcam 01:04 05:30 NICFPS 05:30 06:00 SPIcam 06:10 06:30 INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- UW09/R 20:06 01:10 0 0 0 0 5.1 0 0 0 0 DD06/R 01:10 06:16 0 0 0 0 0.9 4.2 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Alt vel scale meas -605.4 was -606.0 changed n/c Az vel scale meas 577.9 was 577.0 changed n/c Agile would disconnect and then reconnect while I was trying to do single exposures tonight while focusing. It reconnected to the camera after a couple seconds. It appears to do this at the end of an exposure (disconnect and then reconnect the camera, a bug or feature???). This does not occur for image sequences, just when the sequence ends. TUI log dump of event below: 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1 132 agileExpose i agileExpState="APO.Jack-Obs1","expDone",2009-03-18T01:51:18.4Z,0.0,0.0 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1.agileExpose 13 agile i expStatus=done,object,5.0,1,1,2009-03-18T01:51:18.423,nan,nan,"" 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1.agileExpose 13 agile : 01:51:18 .hub 0 cmds i CmdDone=121039 01:51:18 .agile.0 0 agile w cameraConnState='Disconnecting',"" 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1 132 agileExpose i agileExpState="APO.Jack-Obs1","done",2009-03-18T01:51:18.4Z,0.0,0.0 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1 132 agileExpose w debug=" _finishExposure shutting down cnt=1 cntDone=1" 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1 132 agileExpose i agileSeqState="APO.Jack-Obs1","object",5.0,1,1,"done" 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1 132 agileExpose i comment="" 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1 132 agileExpose i agileNextPath="APO.Jack-Obs1","","afocus.","0011",".fits" 01:51:18 APO.Jack-Obs1 132 agileExpose : 01:51:18 .hub 0 cmds i CmdDone=121035 01:51:18 .tcc.0 0 tcc I SecCmdMount=-1295021.,192879.,-539283.,-2530.,-24793.; CmdDTime=20.4 01:51:19 .agile.0 0 agile w cameraConnState='Disconnected',"" 01:51:19 .agile.0 0 agile w cameraConnState='Connecting',"" 01:51:19 .tcc.0 0 tcc I SecActMount=-1295080.,192831.,-539299.,-2574.,-24805. Beautiful night with excellent seeing and no problems! ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (STEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:48 AGILE -255() 85 63 8.4 10.8 9.5 9.8 8.3 B 1.0 20:03 NA2gdr -5578(11000) 83 66 8.6 10.2 9.3 8.9 8.4 R 0.74 01:27 SPIcam -108() 16 55 8.2 7.9 8.2 7.1 7.8 z' 0.58 01:29 NA2gsr 1186(30000) 14 56 8.1 7.9 8.2 7.1 7.8 clear 0.74 05:37 NICFPS -168() -18 56 7.2 7.8 8.0 6.9 7.6 Y 0.62 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 53 14 3 272 (W) 0 clear none 17:00 53 14 14 267 (W) 0 clear none 18:00 51 11 13 288 (WNW) 0 clear none 19:00 49 11 10 275 (W) 0 clear none 20:00 47 9 11 280 (W) 0 clear none 21:00 47 9 10 268 (W) 0 clear none 22:00 48 8 12 262 (W) 3 clear none 23:00 47 8 13 254 (WSW) 3 clear none 00:00 47 8 12 262 (W) 13 clear none 01:00 47 5 11 265 (W) 3 clear none 02:00 48 6 10 267 (W) 8 clear none 03:00 47 6 12 271 (W) 4 clear none 04:00 47 9 12 284 (WNW) 7 clear none 05:00 47 10 12 306 (NW) 3 clear none 06:00 47 10 9 322 (NW) 9 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: 2.10.0 Current TUI version: TUI 1.5.1