Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:30:38 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090702 From: "Jack Dembicky" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, July 02, 2009 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO --:-- --:-- J.Bally J.Bally, T.Bowers, TSPEC --:-- --:-- S.Jacobson G.Wallerstein G.Wallerstein Echelle --:-- --:-- INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- DD01/R 21:19 21:25 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CU02/R 21:25 01:05 0 3.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 UW13/R 01:05 04:57 2.1 1.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument chanyes, some ge time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Clouds and rain kept us closed all night. I did some more Agile light leak test tonights. Mades some progress in ruling out sources and identifying other possibilities. Nick will investigate extraneous light sources further (sent him a private email on findings). ------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:00 67 51 3 96 (E) 1227 mstly cldy none 19:00 63 51 13 155 (SSE) 1330 mstly cldy none 20:00 60 52 13 114 (ESE) 1450 mstly cldy none 21:00 56 50 23 133 (SE) 918 cloudy none 22:00 57 51 21 128 (SE) 1476 cloudy none 23:00 58 51 20 141 (SE) 1509 cloudy none 00:00 57 50 21 142 (SE) 1640 cloudy lt rain 01:00 58 50 17 155 (SSE) 1811 cloudy rain 02:00 55 51 14 171 (S) 1386 cloudy lt rain 03:00 54 52 21 163 (SSE) 2239 cloudy lt rain 04:00 53 52 21 165 (SSE) 1543 cloudy lt rain 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