Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:57:43 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100318 From: "Jack Dembicky" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday March 18, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH ------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Ketzeback J.Dembicky Echelle 18:00 20:22 C.Wu C.Wu DIS 20:22 01:05 E.Hilton E.Hilton Agile 01:10 06:45 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ------------------------------------------------------------------ NM08/W 19:22 20:22 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 NM03/R 20:22 01:10 0 0 0 0 2.9 1.9 0 0 UW04/R 01:10 07:00 0 0 0 0 5.8 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Tested agile guiding software tonight. Comments sent to R.Owen. We had some startup issues due to the hub being restarted this afternoon. all were taken care of except of a TSPEC issue. PR was submitted. ------------- FAILURE LOG -------------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (STEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:24 ECHELLE 135( -587) 224 73 6.0 7.8 6.6 6.6 6.6 ND3 1.00 19:42 ECHELLE 50( -699) 230 71 5.9 7.1 6.3 6.0 6.0 ND3 1.00 20:32 NA2gdr -365(21634) 297 49 5.6 6.0 6.0 5.4 5.6 R 1.30 21:58 dis-slit 125( 12) 99 39 5.3 5.2 5.6 4.4 5.1 -- 1.50 01:15 AGILE 137(-2097) -32 61 4.4 4.3 4.7 3.9 4.2 B 1.40 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 49 15 15 246 (WSW) 817 clear none 17:00 48 18 23 215 (SW) 937 clear none 18:00 46 18 21 234 (SW) 1259 clear none 19:00 43 19 22 228 (SW) 1280 clear none 20:00 42 15 20 244 (WSW) 1099 clear none 21:00 41 14 18 242 (WSW) 1194 mstly clr none 22:00 41 14 15 226 (SW) 1237 ptly cldy none 23:00 41 14 16 235 (SW) 1223 mstly cldy none 00:00 40 16 21 224 (SW) 1401 ptly cldy none 01:00 39 15 15 264 (W) 1395 ptly cldy none 02:00 40 13 16 281 (W) 1528 mstly clr none 03:00 39 14 18 277 (W) 1192 clear none 04:00 37 15 19 293 (WNW) 1049 clear none 05:00 36 16 16 277 (W) 1009 clear none 06:00 36 16 17 285 (WNW) 969 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: 2.11.1 Current TUI version: 1.7.1