From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100425 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, April 25, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Gladders E.Wuyts NICFPS 20:00 00:05 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 00:10 01:12 D.York D.York NICFPS 01:16 05:40 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UC01/R 19:49 00:10 0 0 0 0 0 4.4 0 0 UW16/R 00:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 UC07/R 01:10 06:13 0 0 0 0 1.3 3.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan A lovely clear night that started with half-arcsecond seeing; it degraded to over an arcsecond in the IR and nearly 2 arcsec at 530 nm, during the middle of the night (or perhaps just when pointing close to the wind direction), then improved to subarcsecond again during second half. We had no drive harmonics problems, but we were only in the northwestern part of the sky for a short while. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:26 NICFPS 125( 778) 54 62 7.9 9.2 8.7 8.2 8.5 Ks 0.49 00:15 APOLLO 100( 859) -28 46 7.0 6.9 7.1 6.4 6.7 1.50 01:29 NICFPS 150( 691) 141 53 7.6 6.7 7.2 6.1 6.8 J 0.68 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 50 10 20 259 (W) 1539 clear none 17:00 51 9 14 259 (W) 1621 clear none 18:00 50 9 21 304 (NW) 1744 clear none 19:00 50 11 11 246 (WSW) 1636 clear none 20:00 46 10 17 272 (W) 1665 clear none 21:00 46 8 13 266 (W) 1789 clear none 22:00 46 9 13 252 (WSW) 1833 clear none 23:00 45 10 14 241 (WSW) 1965 clear none 00:00 45 11 13 240 (WSW) 1984 clear none 01:00 44 12 11 283 (WNW) 1874 clear none 02:00 45 12 15 299 (WNW) 1826 clear none 03:00 45 12 5 346 (NNW) 1771 clear none 04:00 45 11 11 328 (NNW) 1887 clear none 05:00 44 13 11 16 (NNE) 1796 clear none 06:00 44 12 8 15 (NNE) 1904 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: 1.7.2