Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:02:19 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100403 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, April 03, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Mukadam A. Mukadam Agile 19:37 01:05 M. Gladders M. Bayliss NICFPS 01:10 05:33 G. Stringfellow G. Stringfellow ECHELLE 05:35 06:40 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UW07/R 19:33 01:10 0 0 0 0 5.1 0.5 0 0 UC01/R 01:10 05:39 0 0 0 0 0 4.5 0 0 CU09/R 05:39 06:39 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J. Huehnerhoff Clear photometric night with sub arcsecond seeing for much of the night. Could not get the agile guider working. An error kept occuring where it could not find the afocus actor. No other problems the rest of the night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:02 AGILE 130(-1904) 47 58 6.4 8.3 7.4 7.0 7.3 BG40 1.35 01:28 NICFPS 100( 642) -151 49 7.0 6.6 6.8 6.1 6.5 MK-J 0.87 05:41 ECHELLE -81( -914) 16 39 4.7 4.8 5.0 4.3 4.6 clear 1.23 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 52 17 13 244 (WSW) 2438 clear none 17:00 49 14 22 260 (W) 2069 clear none 18:00 49 16 17 250 (WSW) 1911 clear none 19:00 46 15 24 251 (WSW) 1754 clear none 20:00 44 15 19 246 (WSW) 1804 clear none 21:00 44 15 21 269 (W) 1783 clear none 22:00 44 15 17 241 (WSW) 1900 clear none 23:00 45 16 20 255 (WSW) 2079 clear none 00:00 45 16 14 258 (WSW) 2107 clear none 01:00 45 17 21 244 (WSW) 2136 clear none 02:00 44 17 18 244 (WSW) 2226 clear none 03:00 43 17 18 255 (WSW) 2180 clear none 04:00 42 18 20 266 (W) 2337 clear none 05:00 42 18 14 256 (WSW) 2254 clear none 06:00 40 17 18 251 (WSW) 2190 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