Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:06:55 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100228 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, February 28, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- S. Jacobson S. Jacobson, T. Bowers TSPEC --:-- --:-- T. Murphy T. Murphy APOLLO --:-- --:-- T. Yan T. Yan TSPEC --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- CU05/R 18:08 00:10 0.2 5.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 UW16/O 00:10 01:10 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CU07/R 01:10 06:23 0 5.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J. Huehnerhoff Very little snow accumulation on roof at time of checkout. Could not run snow program till midnight due to work being done on APOLLO. Possible snow on roof, but the winds have been high so it should be mostly clear. Cloudy night tasks performed. DIS Linearity images were taken in 2x2 binning, data has been reduced and analysis is in progress. time SPI_temp ion DIS_BLUE 1400 161.4K 0.02 -114.6C 0300 158.6K -117.5C 0400 158.4K 0.02 -117.7C ------- 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 23 22 16 246 (WSW) 170 cloudy lt snow 17:00 22 22 16 282 (WNW) 681 cloudy snow 18:00 23 22 12 280 (W) 376 cloudy snow 19:00 23 22 12 283 (WNW) 76 cloudy lt snow 20:00 23 22 5 259 (W) 18 cloudy lt snow 21:00 23 21 7 289 (WNW) 5 cloudy none 22:00 23 22 15 303 (WNW) 326 cloudy none 23:00 24 23 6 305 (NW) 275 cloudy lt snow 00:00 25 24 1 302 (WNW) 1168 cloudy lt snow 01:00 25 24 6 12 (NNE) 5340 cloudy lt snow 02:00 25 24 14 19 (NNE) 2212 cloudy lt snow 03:00 26 24 22 25 (NNE) 3711 cloudy lt snow 04:00 26 24 29 2 (N) 6516 cloudy fog 05:00 26 23 19 10 (N) 6640 cloudy fog 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