Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:44:37 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20101226 From: "Gabrelle Saurage" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, December 26, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Kundurthy P.Kundurthy Agile 17:30 23:57 R.Hamilton R.Hamilton TSPEC 00:01 04:20 N.Chanover N.Chanover TSPEC, Echelle 04:26 06:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ------------------------------------------------------------------- UW02/R 17:13 00:00 0 0 0 0.5 5.5 0.8 0 0 NM09/R 00:00 04:22 0 0 0 0 0 4.4 0 0 NM05/R 04:22 06:55 0 0 0 0 0 1.5 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Thin clouds all night. Decent seeing. Agile spontaneously aborted a sequence of exposures once (PR#1128) and required nimble reboot. Lost 25 mins. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UW02 Agile I/S UT 01:30 01:55 Agile spontaneous abort ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:04 AGILE -1375(-2467) 190 69 1.2 1.2 1.0 0.6 0.7 r 1.00 00:08 TSPEC 110( -393) 190 63 0.3 -0.1 0.3 -0.4 0.0 1.11 04:32 ECHELLE 103(-1669) 34 41 -0.9 -1.0 -0.8 -1.4 -1.2 ND3 1.47 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 35 20 21 284 (WNW) 658 ptly cldy none 17:00 33 18 19 296 (WNW) 640 ptly cldy none 18:00 33 16 17 280 (W) 708 ptly cldy none 19:00 32 16 13 270 (W) 622 ptly cldy none 20:00 32 15 17 273 (W) 635 ptly cldy none 21:00 33 13 19 275 (W) 538 ptly cldy none 22:00 33 12 17 280 (W) 470 ptly cldy none 23:00 34 14 19 293 (WNW) 466 ptly cldy none 00:00 33 14 22 291 (WNW) 531 ptly cldy none 01:00 32 14 16 290 (WNW) 550 ptly cldy none 02:00 32 15 16 301 (WNW) 632 ptly cldy none 03:00 31 15 16 305 (NW) 582 ptly cldy none 04:00 30 15 15 287 (WNW) 517 ptly cldy none 05:00 31 18 14 273 (W) 467 ptly cldy none 06:00 30 20 19 302 (WNW) 405 ptly cldy 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