Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 12:03:15 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100430 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, April 30, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M. Kriek M. Kriek, J. Greene TSPEC 20:38 00:55 C. Blake C. Blake ECHELLE --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- PU05/R 19:53 01:10 0.8 0.3 0 0 1.7 2.5 0 0 PU06/R 01:10 06:08 0 5.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J. Huehnerhoff Waited to open due to thick clouds. Intermittent clouds the entire first half, closed just before second half due to increasing cloud coverage. Layer of clouds the remainder of the night. Spicam 1700 159.3K 0.02 0100 156.0K 0.02 0530 155.8K 0.02 ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:53 TSPEC 100( 31) 118 74 -1.4 0.7 0.0 -0.1 -0.4 clear 1.21 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 33 6 19 233 (SW) 715 ptly cldy none 17:00 38 4 41 249 (WSW) 1343 ptly cldy none 18:00 37 2 25 267 (W) 1203 mstly cldy none 19:00 32 -3 19 255 (WSW) 1358 mstly cldy none 20:00 31 4 21 309 (NW) 1949 mstly cldy none 21:00 30 5 17 314 (NW) 506 mstly clr none 22:00 29 6 6 317 (NW) 320 mstly cldy none 23:00 28 9 11 305 (NW) 292 mstly cldy none 00:00 27 8 7 341 (NNW) 333 cloudy none 01:00 27 8 2 286 (WNW) 235 cloudy none 02:00 28 6 7 345 (NNW) 272 cloudy none 03:00 27 5 12 29 (NNE) 290 cloudy none 04:00 28 3 11 49 (NE) 345 cloudy none 05:00 27 4 10 51 (NE) 314 cloudy none 06:00 27 6 7 11 (N) 269 cloudy 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