Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:00:07 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20101011 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, October 11, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Kundurthy P.Kundurthy Agile 18:40 00:45 S.Moran S.Moran SPICAM 00:50 06:55 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UW02/R 18:43 01:00 0 0 0 0 3.4 2.9 0 0 JH03/R 01:00 06:57 0 0 0 0 5.9 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Photometric night with excellent, stable seeing. The NA2 guider froze several time tonight, more than normal. Some occurrences were around 0930MT, 0405MT, 0520MT. All instances occurred while guiding; restarting Nubs corrected problem. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:28 AGILE -25(-1774) 250 66 9.8 11.2 10.2 10.0 10.2 SDSS r' 0.70 00:50 SPICAM 73( 507) 6 71 9.3 8.9 9.0 8.1 8.6 SDSS r' 0.85 00:51 NA2gdr 384(30384) 4 71 9.0 8.9 9.0 8.1 8.5 clear 1.05 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 56 27 16 269 (W) 256 clear none 17:00 52 26 3 338 (NNW) 228 clear none 18:00 52 25 9 305 (NW) 287 clear none 19:00 49 24 9 311 (NW) 248 clear none 20:00 49 24 5 349 (N) 292 clear none 21:00 50 25 5 4 (N) 235 clear none 22:00 50 25 6 1 (N) 229 clear none 23:00 50 24 1 288 (WNW) 197 clear none 00:00 50 25 3 313 (NW) 239 clear none 01:00 48 25 0 265 (W) 227 clear none 02:00 49 26 2 281 (W) 207 clear none 03:00 50 25 1 242 (WSW) 212 clear none 04:00 49 25 1 257 (WSW) 207 clear none 05:00 49 26 1 228 (SW) 250 clear none 06:00 49 25 1 266 (W) 228 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: 2.13.0 Current TUI version: 1.8.2