Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:29:46 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090810 From: "Jack Dembicky" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, August 10, 2009 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene J.Dembicky ---- --:-- --:-- INST SCHED(TWILIGHT) WEATH EQUIP OBS DAY NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B USE D B --------------------------------------------------------------------- note: scheduled times listed include instrument chanyes, some ge time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Engineering shutdown today/tonight. I helped during the day with the Az drive installation as well as started working on transfering the "old" technical web pages to a wiki format. Bill and I are doing instrument fills this week, I will do fills during the nighttime and Bill will take care of the morning fills. Cleaned all of the NA2 guide cam filters and 1/2 of the optics/mirrors in the NA2 rotator. Helped Jon Brinkman update Obs1 last night. ------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1.6