Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:29:39 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090309 From: "Jack Dembicky" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, March 09, 2009 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Stocke J.Stocke, T.Yan NICFPS --:-- --:-- L.Winter L.Winter, C.Froning, NICFPS --:-- --:-- J.Khargharia INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- CU03/R 20:00 01:10 0 5.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CU11/R 01:10 06:27 0 5.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Alt Vel scale measured -604.8 was -606.0 changed -605.0 Az Vel scale measured 581.9 was 580.0 changed 581.0 Tonight during checkout TSPEC was off the telescope. I noticed that there were only 2 LEDs lit on the electronic box on the side of the fill ports (Right side when facing front of instrument looking towards the back). As expected the TSPEC image was all 0's. I don't know when TSPEC was taken off the telescope, but it appears there was some sort of power fluctuation between when it was removed on Sunday morning and now (I also did not see any "new" material in the seam in the observing level floor, so it may have been bumped when it went over that). It appears that there were all 0's on yesterday's checkout image as well but not on Saturday nights. I am guessing that the power was interupted when the instrument was dismounted on Sunday morning. CU11 program could not log in with that program ID, I had her log in as CU10 with TUI and that worked fine. The CU11 program must have been missed in the authorized programs this quarter. Since this is her only program this quarter there is little sense in adding it in now. Clouds and humidity kept us closed all night, we never opened. After switching the Daylight savings time, The focus log is recording the correct time but the weather log an hour off. I manually corrected the weather timestamps to reflect the correct time. ------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:00 33 32 30 252 (WSW) cldy ice 18:00 33 32 32 255 (WSW) cldy fog 19:00 33 32 34 228 (SW) cldy fog 20:00 33 32 23 261 (W) cldy fog 21:00 32 32 18 256 (WSW) 15466 cldy fog 22:00 31 32 15 261 (W) 18561 cldy fog 23:00 31 32 12 263 (W) 7828 cldy fog 00:00 31 32 13 263 (W) 27988 cldy fog 01:00 31 31 17 267 (W) 13612 cldy fog 02:00 31 32 15 267 (W) 365 cldy humid 03:00 31 32 17 264 (W) 9561 cldy humid 04:00 31 31 14 264 (W) 2403 cldy humid 05:00 30 31 17 263 (W) 47839 cldy fog 06:00 29 30 19 266 (W) 346 cldy humid 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