Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:54:47 -0700 (MST) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20101209 From: "Jack Dembicky" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, December 09, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 17:00 17:55 X.Liu X.Liu DIS 18:05 23:55 J.Coughlin J.Coughlin SPICam 00:05 08:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- DD01/R 17:06 18:06 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 PU05/R 18:06 00:00 0 0 0 0 3.0 2.9 0 0 NM04/R 00:00 06:46 0 0 0 0 6.8 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky No problems tonight. Jeff took care of focus for his program with SPIcam tonight. No NA2 guider issues tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:02 APOLLO 150( 647) 64 58 6.9 10.0 8.2 9.2 8.5 -- 2.00 18:05 dis-slit 269( -111) 1 52 7.2 8.3 7.7 7.4 7.5 -- 0.91 20:04 dis-slit 195( -261) -32 54 6.3 6.8 6.8 6.1 6.3 -- 1.20 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 48 3 1 223 (SW) 123 ptly cldy none 17:00 44 0 2 281 (W) 111 ptly cldy none 18:00 46 1 8 310 (NW) 30 ptly cldy none 19:00 45 1 13 316 (NW) 18 ptly cldy none 20:00 44 0 7 279 (W) 253 ptly cldy none 21:00 44 0 11 291 (WNW) 434 ptly cldy none 22:00 44 1 10 271 (W) 281 ptly cldy none 23:00 45 4 13 295 (WNW) 209 ptly cldy none 00:00 44 4 7 268 (W) 226 ptly cldy none 01:00 44 5 16 297 (WNW) 262 mstly clr none 02:00 44 9 11 300 (WNW) 292 ptly cldy none 03:00 42 17 14 307 (NW) 357 clear none 04:00 42 17 15 310 (NW) 415 clear none 05:00 41 19 14 313 (NW) 357 clear none 06:00 40 16 11 352 (N) 467 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