Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:39:04 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100123 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, January 23, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Ginsburg A. Ginsburg TripleSpec --:-- --:-- O. Fox M. Skrutskie TripleSpec --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- CU04/R 17:36 00:10 0 6.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 UV02/R 00:10 06:54 5.3 1.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J. Huehnerhoff Snow program started at 12:00 MST. Worked fine for first slew but second slew caused building collision. After checking all system I manually slewed which worked fine. The snow program was restarted. Some slews worked fine but others continued to cause a building collision. In dome pointing model started at 02:06 UT and completed at 05:30UT. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 20 17 18 268 (W) 253 cloudy snow 17:00 20 17 28 286 (WNW) 543 cloudy humid 18:00 20 17 17 291 (WNW) 2860 cloudy humid 19:00 20 16 18 273 (W) 1120 cloudy humid 20:00 20 16 19 292 (WNW) 406 cloudy humid 21:00 19 15 15 319 (NW) 590 cloudy humid 22:00 18 14 5 341 (NNW) 64 cloudy none 23:00 18 13 10 318 (NW) 63 cloudy none 00:00 18 13 8 341 (NNW) 71 cloudy none 01:00 18 13 10 274 (W) 1434 cloudy none 02:00 17 12 22 307 (NW) 657 cloudy none 03:00 17 12 19 324 (NW) 47 cloudy none 04:00 16 11 20 339 (NNW) 50 cloudy 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: 1.7.0