From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20101202 Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:29:43 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, December 02, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Keeney B.Keeney DIS 17:25 23:52 J.Prieto J.Prieto DIS 23:56 04:35 V.Meadows S.Schmidt,T.Robinson TSPEC 04:48 06:40 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- CU06/R 17:06 00:00 0 0 0 0 6.9 0.0 0 0 PU04/R 00:00 04:41 0 0 0 0 4.6 0.1 0 0 UW03/R 04:41 06:41 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Photometric or nearly so all night, with good to moderate seeing. The telescope and instruments behaved perfectly. I did a small pointing correction and took a few minutes to check collimation using Agile once the telescope had cooled; collimation looked fine so, barring surprises, we shouldn't have to work on it again until engineering. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:17 TSPEC -57( -332) 138 48 5.5 4.2 4.7 3.7 4.3 Ks 0.85 17:55 dis-slit 125( -199) -22 58 6.7 9.6 7.7 7.9 8.3 1.08 00:03 dis-slit 133( -345) 260 49 7.3 6.2 6.5 5.4 6.1 1.21 Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 48 30 7 224 (SW) 602 clear none 17:00 41 30 3 254 (WSW) 547 clear none 18:00 39 29 1 256 (WSW) 692 clear none 19:00 38 28 5 2 (N) 693 clear none 20:00 39 28 5 4 (N) 502 clear none 21:00 39 27 5 31 (NNE) 495 clear none 22:00 37 26 3 340 (NNW) 428 clear none 23:00 38 26 9 360 (N) 524 clear none 00:00 41 24 7 37 (NE) 268 clear none 01:00 41 23 10 53 (NE) 209 clear none 02:00 41 25 10 85 (E) 266 clear none 03:00 40 25 8 92 (E) 301 clear none 04:00 41 25 4 138 (SE) 272 clear none 05:00 41 25 8 142 (SE) 234 clear none 06:00 40 26 5 154 (SSE) 312 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: 2.14.0 Current TUI version: 1.8.4