Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 05:40:48 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100605 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, June 05, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Kundurthy P. Kundurthy Agile 20:25 01:06 M. Strauss M. Shin, M. Oguri DIS 01:07 05:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- UW03/R 20:17 01:10 0 0 0 0 4.9 0 0 0 PU08/R 01:10 05:46 0 0 0 0 0.6 4.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J. Huehnerhoff DIS blue camera warming to above critical alerts limit during afternoon and evening (due to high ambient temperature), but cooled down after sunset. Good, stable seeing for most of the night. Around 0400MT seeing quickly worsened and remained that way till closing. Spicam 1900 180.6K 0530 175.3K ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:57 AGILE 85(-1142) 89 61 23.2 24.8 23.7 23.6 23.7 SDSS r' 0.80 01:12 dis-slit 94( 711) -110 44 21.9 20.3 20.5 19.1 20.0 clear 1.21 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 35 35 15 303 (WNW) 709 clear none 17:00 34 34 8 345 (NNW) 585 mstly clr none 18:00 35 35 4 266 (W) 507 mstly clr none 19:00 35 35 9 293 (WNW) 455 clear none 20:00 33 33 8 291 (WNW) 394 clear none 21:00 32 32 1 325 (NW) 451 clear none 22:00 31 31 7 325 (NW) 436 clear none 23:00 32 32 11 323 (NW) 816 clear none 00:00 33 33 2 349 (N) 885 clear none 01:00 33 33 5 352 (N) 1003 clear none 02:00 34 34 2 335 (NNW) 1084 clear none 03:00 33 33 8 357 (N) 1041 clear none 04:00 34 34 11 40 (NE) 1139 clear none 05:00 36 36 10 62 (ENE) 930 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: 1.7.3