Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 06:06:54 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100514 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, May 14, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- B. Woodgate C. Grady, B. Woodgate, DIS 19:55 05:10 J. Hornbeck INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- DD03/O 20:03 05:56 0 0 0 0 8.8 1.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J. Huehnerhoff Intermittent light clouds throughout the night. Seeing was mostly around 1.2" but did vary slightly throughout the night. Azimuth motion error at 08:30UT at an azimuth of -19.8. This occurred at the start of the slew. Otherwise drive behaved very nicely. Spicam 19:30 172.7K 05:30 166.9K ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:43 dis-slit 121( 342) -45 47 10.8 12.2 11.6 11.1 11.2 clear 1.32 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 57 15 29 244 (WSW) 1839 mstly cldy none 17:00 56 12 25 211 (SSW) 1669 mstly cldy none 18:00 57 14 17 251 (WSW) 1682 mstly clr none 19:00 55 11 18 250 (WSW) 1723 mstly clr none 20:00 51 7 18 257 (WSW) 1550 mstly clr none 21:00 51 5 14 268 (W) 1594 mstly clr none 22:00 49 7 10 269 (W) 1157 mstly clr none 23:00 49 10 13 267 (W) 1113 mstly clr none 00:00 49 10 10 248 (WSW) 1131 clear none 01:00 47 17 8 257 (WSW) 1122 mstly clr none 02:00 46 19 9 232 (SW) 1134 ptly cldy none 03:00 45 20 4 228 (SW) 1166 clear none 04:00 45 22 7 204 (SSW) 1140 clear none 05:00 44 21 3 200 (SSW) 1279 clear none 06:00 41 24 5 187 (S) 1267 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